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
- Lead school Bern Academy of the Arts
- Additional schools School of Engineering and Computer Science
- Institute Institute Interpretation
- Research unit Performance and interpretation
- Funding organisation Others
- Duration 01.02.2009 - 31.01.2010
- Project management Urs Richle
- Head of project Urs Richle
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Project staff
Julia Büchel
Prof. Rolf Jufer
Martin Schopfer
Simon Tschachtli
Alexander Wenzel -
Partner
Schweizerisches Literaturarchiv SLA
Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz AdS - 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.
