List,
I've dug around and found some old information about the Humboldt U.
Peirce archive. It was built with the cooperation of the Peirce Edition
Project. From PEP head André De Tienne's report to the Charles S. Peirce
Society 21 February 2013
http://peircesociety.org/minutes/cspsminutes_2013.pdf :
The second initiative is international: In August and September 2012
the Project collaborated with a team of researchers from
Humboldt-Universität in Berlin on a proposal for the NEH/DFG
Bilateral Digital Humanities Program titled “An Online Image-based
Research Environment for the Humanities: The Digital Peirce Archive
as a Case Study.” The collaboration also involves members of the Max
Planck Digital Library and the Houghton Library at Harvard. We
propose to build a generic open-source image management and research
environment endowed with a collaborative, multifunctional structure
that humanities users can customize at will at minimal cost. Our
solution is to build on, and expand, a dynamic scholarly image
database called imeji that is being developed under the aegis of the
Max Planck Digital Library in Munich. Imeji’s strength is the
collection of tools it provides to describe, enrich, connect,
magnify, index, and link image data through a configurable set of
metadata definitions. Our goal is to transform it into a
collaborative research environment capable of seamless integration
into the workflow of STEP and CORPUS. Its design will be tested
through its exemplary application in the Peirce Digital Archive
(DPA), which will be an online dynamic repository of digital images
of the Peirce manuscripts. The principal result of this
collaboration will be twofold: a generic and customizable
image-based research environment,and the free, publicly accessible
Digital Peirce Archive endowed with an HCI-compliant interface.
TheDPA represents a foundational module both for STEP and CORPUS
since it would essentially feed them with digital images of the
Peirce papers. We will learn about the outcome of that NEH/DFG grant
competition in April.
[END QUOTE]
Here's a search on Humboldt at the Peirce Society website:
https://www.google.com/search?q=humboldt+site:peircesociety.org/
On Oct. 21, 2014, Moritz Queisner posted the following at his website
http://www.moritzqueisner.de/the-charles-sanders-peirce-archive/ :
The Charles Sanders Peirce Archive
*Imeji Days 2014. Institut für Kunst und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt
University Berlin, Oct 21, 2014 (with Tullio Viola, Franz Engel,
Frederik Wellmann)*
The Peirce Archive aims at designing and implementing an image-based
archiving repository of the Nachlass of the American philosopher
Charles S. Peirce. The archive will assemble around 100,000
manuscript pages that span more than five decades, and touch on
very different disciplinary domains. With an eye to improving the
methodology of investigation of Peirce’s intellectual legacy, the
archive will set up a citable online research environment to search,
filter, describe, comment, link, compare, share, export, edit, and
browse the manuscript pages, using the metadata management software
imeji.
[END QUOTE]
* * *
My numbers in my previous message didn't add up. The Digital Peirce
Archive planned to put 100,000 MS images online. I should have said,
that all of the Peirce manuscripts (mostly texts) _/listed in the Robin
Catalogue/_ appear to be online now. Those are what add up to around
50,000. Apparently the rest are drawings and the like. I remember a
figure of around 60%, probably I read that in one of the free PDFs that
the publisher De Gruyter of _Das bildnerische Denken: Charles S. Peirce_
has taken offline. In 2010, Aud Sissel Hoel mentioned "thousands and
thousands of drawings, ranging from meticulous and bizarre notation
systems and variational sequences of Kandinsky-like line drawings, via
intricate labyrinths and physiognomies, to idle doodles and mere scribbles."
I'll quote her whole post here to ensure its survival.
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20110707185056/http://www.audsisselhoel.com/wordpress?p=69
April 2, 2010
Trip to Berlin, March 2010:
By audhoe in Travelogues
*Peirces Pictorial Thinking*
Workshop
/I do not think I ever reflect in words./
Charles Sanders Peirce (Peirce Papers; Ms. 619:8, 1909)
March 21 and 22 this year I took part in a scholarly event quite out
of the ordinary. The focal point of this event was a tableau of
drawings made by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce
(1839-1914), exhibited here, in the premises of the Collegium for
the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment (Humboldt
University, Berlin), for the first time in history. As it turns out,
Peirce drew incessantly throughout his life, quite literally
sketching out his philosophical ideas. The Peirce Papers in the
Houghton Library at Harvard, therefore, contain thousands and
thousands of drawings, ranging from meticulous and bizarre notation
systems and variational sequences of Kandinsky-like line drawings,
via intricate labyrinths and physiognomies, to idle doodles and mere
scribbles. With a view to the sheer amount of drawings Peirce left
behind, and, not the least, with a view to the nature of his
thinking (accentuating as it does the iconic or visual aspects of
cognition), it is surprising that, until now, there has been made no
attempts at systematizing or making sense of these drawings. Even
the ambitious Peirce Edition Project has decided to leave out the
majority of Peirces sketches. John Michael Krois, co-director
(together with Horst Bredekamp) of the abovementioned Collegium,
initiated this workshop to start rectifying this. Similar attempts
are made by the Graduiertenkolleg Schriftbildlichkeit at the Free
University of Berlin, directed by Sybille Krämer, where Benjamin
Meyer-Krahmer is currently pursuing a postdoctoral project focusing
on Peirces notation systems.
Speakers at the workshops were: Krois, Meyer-Krahmer, Helmut Pape
(Berlin, Bamberg), Frederik Stjernfelt (Berlin, Aarhus), Mark A.
Halawa (Duisburg), and Steffen Bogen (Konstanz). The discussants
included Krämer, Bredekamp, Elise Bisanz (Lüneburg), Mirjam Wittmann
(Wien), and Dieter Mersch (Potsdam).
The tableau of Peirce drawings where put together by Moritz Queisner
(Berlin), Franz Engel (Berlin) and Tullio Viola (Berlin).
Tags: Berlin, diagrams, drawings, iconicity, Peirce, visual thinking
[END QUOTE]
Best, Ben
*On 4/7/2017 6:33 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote:*
List,
It seems that all of Peirce's manuscripts at Harvard are now viewable
online at a Humboldt University site. Maybe they've put the old
microfiche images online or maybe the images are recently made. Only a
few (Robin Catalogue) MSS numbers seem missing.
https://rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/peircearchive/pages/home.php
It's part of the same project that led to the 2012 publication of a book
about Peirce's drawings
http://www.iupui.edu/~arisbe/newbooks.htm#engel_queisner_viola
<http://www.iupui.edu/%7Earisbe/newbooks.htm#engel_queisner_viola>
Here's a page about the plan for the *Peirce archive*:
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/forschung/laufende-forschungsprojekte/digital-peirce-archive/
It says "The archive will assemble around 100,000 manuscript pages....",
and the archive now online says around 50,000 pages, so I guess the rest
are innumerable drawings.
I've searched around for an announcement of its being put online but
haven't found one.
Joe Ransdell would have been overjoyed at this achievement.
Best, Ben
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