Rudolf Carnap, Diaries 1908-1935. An Online Edition

This online edition is being developed as part of the current research project of the applicant "Carnap in Context III" (FWF Research Grant P 34887). It is part of a long-term edition project on the estate of Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970). The edition is based on an open-access print edition of Carnap`s early diaries (1908-1935), published in 2022 in two volumes (https://doi.org/10.48666/808482 and https://doi.org/10.48666/808483) by Meiner Verlag Hamburg, which was the result of two earlier FWF projects (P27733, P31716, PUB 775, PUB 776). Carnap`s diaries are important documents on the history of logical empiricism and provide background information on his intellectual networks. The diaries mention thousands of individuals and institutions from Carnap`s intellectual and private networks, as well as thousands of publications and locations. The main part of this digital edition project is therefore to collect the necessary biographical, historical, and bibliographical information and embed it in a fine-grained network of metadata that will be made available online. The technical basis of this edition is the online archive Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism (VALEP, https://valep.vc.univie.ac.at). The edition uses the original LaTeX sources of the printed edition and extends them in the following ways: (a) by adding the appropriate functionalities to VALEP that allow the display of LaTeX, HTML5 and TEI XML sources; (b) by programming a suitable layout for the HTML5 code. Then (c) all original LaTeX sources are uploaded to VALEP using Java scripts; (d) a script is programmed to transfer the LaTeX code to HTML5 and TEI-XML; (e) all relevant metadata and LaTeX sources are manually edited whenever necessary. This online edition makes Carnap`s diaries accessible to a wider audience and is aimed at researchers on the history of logical empiricism who use the Internet as a platform for searching and studying historical sources. In addition, this project also acts as a pilot project for other editions that will be devoted to other parts of Rudolf Carnap`s estate and published works. The principal investigator of this project is PD Dr. Christian Damböck. The programming and manual data entry will be done by a software developer N.N. and a PhD student in philosophy N.N. The scripts for transferring LaTeX code to HTML5 and TEI-XML will be developed in collaboration with Dr. Eckhart Arnold of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The data layout and long-term archiving strategy of VALEP will be developed in collaboration with Phaidra staff (https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/).