Walter Benjamin Digital

Abstract

Walter Benjamin Digital is a digital partial edition of the eleventh volume of the Critical Complete Edition of Walter Benjamin’s works, published by Suhrkamp since 2008. It contains handwritten texts from the field of work of Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert and its predecessor Berliner Chronik in the form of facsimilated manuscripts and superimposed diplomatic transcriptions. Walter Benjamin Digital is not geared toward exhausting the possibilities of a digital edition; hence the printed volumes must remain key for research purposes.

Keywords

• documentation
• user interface
• metadata
• embedded transcription
• data model
• facsimile
• german philology
• literature