Projects
Digital edition of Max Frisch’s notes
The holdings of the Max Frisch Archive include the hand-written notes of author and architect Max Frisch. More than 100 notebooks, several dozen notepads, spiral-bound books and loose notes have survived. They give us an insight into the author’s workplace, revealing Frisch as a keen observer of contemporary affairs.
The planned digital edition will provide researchers with a new database of primary sources and make the comprehensive, nearly unpublished corpus available to the general public for the first time.
Project objectives
- Integral digitisation of all notes in the ETH Library DigiCenter
- Transcription and encoding of the hand-written manuscripts in TEI-XML using optical character recognition
- Categorisation and commenting of notes, creation of registers and connection with standard data
- Front-end web publication
- Development of knowledge sharing services (including for schools)
Time frame
2022 to 2026
Supporter
Completed projects
Aim of the project
- Improve access to the holdings of the Max Frisch Archive through its complete indexing in the archival database Max Frisch-Archiv Online
- Preserve and protect the original holdings through integral digitization
Description of the project
The Max Frisch Archive supplies extensive source material for research. It provides access to correspondence, notebooks, typescripts, materials on Max Frisch's architectural activities and comprehensive media documentation (newspapers and magazines). Within the scope of the project MFA_online, all archival and collection material is indexed in an archive information system. Newly created metadata is made accessible online on the archival database within 24 hours.
In order to preserve and protect the culturally and historically valuable originals, the overall holdings are digitized in the library's own DigiCenter. Due to legal restrictions, the digital copies cannot be displayed on the internet. However, they can be accessed on the premises in the archive’s reading room.
Synergies and context
The project MFA_online was initiated following an internal audit by the ETH Board in 2011/12. The auditors had explicitly mentioned the as yet incomplete indexing and digitization of the holdings and issues of storage and preservation as basic desiderata.
Synergies arise from the exchange with the ETH Zurich University Archives and the Thomas Mann Archives.
Timeframe, Sequence
July 2014 to June 2018