Musil complete digital edition

From the time Computers have become part of the literature-editing three methods of using them have been established. 1. the textgenetic edition, which leads closely to faksimiles of the original. 2. methods to generate a text from transcribed handwritten documents as a technical perfection of the reconstructive editing method. 3. The full text research in a large body of text with navigation in a hypertext that integrates literary text, context and commentary. In the submitted project, all three methods are used in an integrated form. Focus of the project is the digital publication of the polymorphic, fragmentary and, as it is often described, difficult work of Robert Musil (1889-1942) in a single, complex Hypertext. The core of the project is an infobase in the FolioViews format, so far is the most comprehensive and deeply linked digitalisation of the complete works of an Austrian writer. The main focus of the digital edition is to facilitate the access to Musils complete literary work in a contemporary medium. The emphasis is on developing a sequel to the incomplete novel "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften", which will be the basis for a pocket-book edition. The sequel will use a manuscript-corpus, which contains more than thousand pages and so far has been deemed uneditable by Musil-experts. One part of the digital Edition is a collection of the 12.000 Manuscripts of Musils estate with countless cross-references between all kinds of notes, drafts and layouts. Each of Musils references is turned into a hyperlink and all parts that might be difficult to perceive are linked to a commentary that consists of comments of every single page of the manuscript. For even more comprehensive studies, the digital edition contains pictures of Musils original manuscripts. Additionally, the user can access Musils correspondence. A timetable supports the user to find orientation; the scientific reception is displayed in a bibliography. Important fractions of the digital edition have already been completed. The structure of the Infobase can be perceived by viewing the CD-ROM, which has been submitted with the application.

From the time Computers have become part of the literature-editing three methods of using them have been established. 1. the textgenetic edition, which leads closely to faksimiles of the original. 2. methods to generate a text from transcribed handwritten documents as a technical perfection of the reconstructive editing method. 3. The full text research in a large body of text with navigation in a hypertext that integrates literary text, context and commentary. In the submitted project, all three methods are used in an integrated form. Focus of the project is the digital publication of the polymorphic, fragmentary and, as it is often described, difficult work of Robert Musil (1889-1942) in a single, complex Hypertext. The core of the project is an infobase in the FolioViews format, so far is the most comprehensive and deeply linked digitalisation of the complete works of an Austrian writer. The main focus of the digital edition is to facilitate the access to Musil`s complete literary work in a contemporary medium. The emphasis is on developing a sequel to the incomplete novel "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften", which will be the basis for a pocket-book edition. The sequel will use a manuscript-corpus, which contains more than thousand pages and so far has been deemed uneditable by Musil-experts. One part of the digital Edition is a collection of the 12.000 Manuscripts of Musil`s estate with countless cross-references between all kinds of notes, drafts and layouts. Each of Musil`s references is turned into a hyperlink and all parts that might be difficult to perceive are linked to a commentary that consists of comments of every single page of the manuscript. For even more comprehensive studies, the digital edition contains pictures of Musil`s original manuscripts. Additionally, the user can access Musil`s correspondence. A timetable supports the user to find orientation; the scientific reception is displayed in a bibliography. Important fractions of the digital edition have already been completed. The structure of the Infobase can be perceived by viewing the CD-ROM, which has been submitted with the application.