Digital Literature

The digitalisation of writing has changed the typing processes basically. Important documentary from the literature working process, which are essential for the interpretation of literature creation risk to disappear

Factsheet

  • Schools involved Bern Academy of the Arts
    School of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Institute(s) Institute Interpretation
  • Research unit(s) Performance and interpretation
  • Funding organisation BFH
  • Duration 01.02.2009 - 31.01.2010
  • Head of project Urs Richle
  • Project staff Julia Büchel
    Prof. Rolf Jufer
    Simon Tschachtli
    Alexander Wenzel
  • Partner Schweizerisches Literaturarchiv SLA
    AdS Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz
  • Keywords Literature, Archive

Situation

The authors different steps of work and electronic correspondence risk to disappear because of the digitalisation. The aim is now to create a solution which is fitted to the needs of maintenance, assurance and archiving of them.

Course of action

The digitalisation of writing has changed the typing processes basically. Important documentary from the literature working process, which are essential for the interpretation of literature creation risk to disappear. The project Digital Literature analyzes the new typing processes and develops a solution, which is fitted to the autors, to gain access from the genesis of new litterature works to analysis and interpretation.

Result

We developed a prototype of a software which permets authors to alleviate their work but also have the possibility to save pieces of creatition an to keep it.

Looking ahead

The project shows that authors have specifical needs for writing and then for the archiving of their documents. The Ads will follow the proposed solutions and also for the HKB a bread archiving solution for artists could me interesting.