Digital Edition of the Correspondence of August Wilhelm Schlegel

在最重要的德语作家、批评家和学者中，奥古斯特·威廉·施莱格尔（August Wilhelm Schlegel，1767 - 1845）是最多才多艺的，同时也是最被低估的一位。2012年开始的施莱格尔书信的数字版，在过去十年中已经明显刺激了对施莱格尔和浪漫主义的研究。该项目为世纪的科学史做出了重大贡献，并说明了书信写作作为人文学科发展领域的一种体裁的重要性。根据目前的计算，A.W.施莱格尔现存的书信约有5,050封，其中包括来自76个国际机构的约2,350份手写文件，以及19、20和21世纪发表在170种不同出版物上的约2,700封印刷信件。总数高于预期。为了确保该版本的语言质量，我们正在寻求18个月的后续资金。数字版项目已经首次开发了一个可重复使用的开源工作流程，包括从每封信件的登记和数字化、数字版本身到所有相关数据的长期保存的每一个步骤。这种模式将确保未来涉及多个合作伙伴的雄心勃勃的版本项目能够更快、更便宜地实现其目标。该项目将伴随着国际研讨会，并认为自己是通过互联网进行学术合作的重要贡献。为了完成技术基础设施，该项目要求提供8个月的全职工作和18个月的兼职工作（25%）的资金，以进行最后的开发和技术支持。

Among the most important German-speaking authors, critics and scholars, August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 to 1845) is the most versatile and at the same time the most underestimated one. The digital edition of his correspondence, begun in 2012, has already noticeably stimulated research on Schlegel and Romanticism in the last decade. The project makes a substantial contribution to the History of Science in the 19th century and illustrates the importance of letter-writing as a genre for the developing field of the Humanities. According to current calculations, A.W. Schlegel’s extant correspondence comprises about 5,050 letters, consisting of around 2,350 handwritten documents from 76 international institutions as well as about 2,700 printed letters published in 170 separate publications in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The total number was higher than expected. In order to ensure the philological quality of the edition, we are seeking a follow-up funding for 18 months. The digital edition project has already developed, for the first time, a re-usable Open Source-workflow encompassing every step from the registration and digitization of every letter, the digital edition itself, up to the long-term preservation of all the relevant data. This model will ensure that future ambitious edition projects involving multiple cooperation partners will be able to implement their objectives faster and cheaper. The project will be accompanied by international workshops and regards itself as an important contribution to scholarly collaboration via the internet. In order to finalize the technical infrastructure, the project requests funding for 8 months full-time as well as 18 months part-time (25%) work for final developments and technical support.