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RIDE A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources

Issue 16: Scholarly Editions (FAIR criteria)

Edited by Tessa Gengnagel, Frederike Neuber and and Daniela Schulz. 2023-03. DOI: 10.18716/ride.a.16.

5 reviews in this issue.

Walter Benjamin Digital

Walter Benjamin Digital https://www.walter-benjamin.online/ (Last Accessed: 2022-07-15). Reviewed by Laura Untner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

Walter Benjamin Digitalis 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…

Digitale Edition und Kommentierung der Tagebücher des Fürsten Christian II. von Anhalt-Bernburg (1599–1656)

Digitale Edition und Kommentierung der Tagebücher des Fürsten Christian II. von Anhalt-Bernburg (1599-1656) http://diglib.hab.de/edoc/ed000228/start.htm (Last Accessed: 2022-08-10). Reviewed by Selina Galka (Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz).

This review examines the Digital Edition of the Diaries of Prince Christian II. von Anhalt-Bernburg, implemented by the University of Freiburg and the Herzog August Bibliothek. The research project, which has been running since 2013 and has not yet been completed, aims to present the entire diary (diplomatic transcription and facsimiles) of the prince which…

Briefportal Leibniz

Briefportal Leibniz. Ausgewählte Briefe in HTML https://leibniz-briefportal.adw-goe.de/ (Last Accessed: 2022-08-29). Reviewed by Maximilian Görmar (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel).

The Briefportal Leibniz is a digital collection of selected letters from series III (Mathematischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer Briefwechsel) of the ongoing critical print edition of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ works and letters, edited by the Academies of Sciences in Berlin and Göttingen. The main corpus of the selection, 157 letters, consists…

Theodor Fontane’s Notebooks: A ‘Digital Genetic-Critical and Commented Edition’

Theodor Fontane: Notizbücher: Digitale genetisch-kritische und kommentierte Edition https://fontane-nb.dariah.eu (Last Accessed: 2022-09-05). Reviewed by Timo Frühwirth (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Sandra Mayer (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Daniel Stoxreiter (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

The scholarly digital edition of the Theodor Fontane: Notizbücher provides open access, for the first time, to the full scope of the 19th-century German writer’s notebooks. The project has a strong focus on the materiality of the documents, which is reflected not only in meticulous diplomatic transcriptions of Fontane’s notes, presented in their material…

A Review of the Königsfelden Online Edition

Königsfelden Online. Die Urkunden und Akten des Klosters und des Oberamts Königsfelden https://www.koenigsfelden.uzh.ch (Last Accessed: 2022-08-07). Reviewed by Christopher Pollin (Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung (ZIM-ACDH), Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz).

This review deals with the digital edition “Die Urkunden und Akten des Klosters und des Oberamts Königsfelden 1308–1662“ (Charters and Records of Königsfelden (1308–1662)), which was carried out by the Department of History of the University of Zurich between 2017 and 2020. The edition project provides access to more than 1500 charters and records. The aim…

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