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RIDE A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources

Issue 20: Scholarly Editions

Edited by Ulrike Henny-Krahmer and Martina Scholger. 2025-01. DOI: 10.18716/ride.a.20.

5 reviews in this issue.

Schopenhauer’s Library

Schopenhauer’s Library. Annotations and marks in his Spanish books https://schopenhauer.uni.wroc.pl/ (Last Accessed: 2024-08-18). Reviewed by Bianca La Manna (Università degli Studi di Genova).

Schopenhauer’s Library is a project, on-hold, that aims to publish all of Schopenhauer’s Spanish books that contain personal annotations or marginalia written by the philosopher himself. It currently provides the digital edition of the book Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1659). This review analyzes the choices made in this digital edition, offering…

Jean Paul – Sämtliche Briefe digital

Jean Paul – Sämtliche Briefe Digital https://www.jeanpaul-edition.de (Last Accessed: 2024-09-14). Reviewed by Erik Renz (Universität Rostock).

This paper reviews the digital edition Jean Paul – Sämtliche Briefe digital, which presents the complete correspondence of the German poet Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825). Commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the edition features three distinct projects: the letters written by Jean Paul, the letters addressed…

Sewing text and images together in the digital environment. A review of Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition

Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition http://www.sd-editions.com/bayeux/online/ (Last Accessed: 2024-01-27). Reviewed by Manuele Veggi (Sapienza University of Rome).

The following contribution is focused on Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition (BTDE), a project addressed to a heterogeneous audience that aims to describe this famous embroidery from different perspectives. Indeed, not only does this scholarly edigital edition (SDE) provide a high-quality facsimile of this artwork, but it also tries to reconstruct its…

Anne Frank House VR & The Secret Annex (3D)

Anne Frank House VR & The Secret Annex (3D) https://www.annefrank.org/en/museum/web-and-digital/ (Last Accessed: 2023-03-01). Reviewed by Marcus Feldbrügge (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

After his return from deportation, Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, decreed that the annex in which the family hid during WWII should no longer be furnished. For this reason, Anne Frank’s world-famous writing place is vacant today. With the project The Secret Annex (3D), which was launched in 2010, and the VR application The Anne Frank House VR, which has…

Gli anni della Cupola 1417–1436

Gli anni della Cupola 1417–1436 http://archivio.operaduomo.fi.it/cupola/home.HTML (Last Accessed: 2024-12-08). Reviewed by Lucrezia Pograri (Università di Bologna).

This review critically evaluates Gli anni della cupola 1417–1436, the digital edition aiming to offer unprecedented access to over 1.8 million archival records from the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore archive, documenting the construction of Brunelleschi’s famous dome of the Florence cathedral, and its civic context. Featuring high-quality reproductions and…

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