The Bergen Electronic Edition is the result of 10 years of academic research and editorial work by the Wittgenstein Archives. The series is a joint publication by The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen and Oxford University Press. The transcriptions will be presented in two formats, a diplomatic and a normalized version. The diplomatic version is a detailed representation of the original, including deletions, overwritings, substitutions, spelling mistakes and so on. The normalized format provides a 'reading' version of the transcription.
Spelling is normalized and certain features such as deleted and overwritten text are suppressed.
In addition to the transcriptions The Bergen Electronic Edition includes digital facsimile images of the entire Nachlass . The transcribed texts, both in the normalized and the diplomatic versions, are linked with the images. The Wittgenstein Archives has formal agreements of cooperation with The Brenner Archives at the University of Innsbruck and with Oxford Text Archive at Oxford University Computing Services. A cooperation with The Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire is in preparation. Staff at WAB were involved in the preparation of The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange , P3, which was published in April 1994.