Presentation given by Susanne Muller during the workshop "Open platforms for digital humanities". See http://openplatformsforhumanities.org/

1. Burckhardtsource
The European Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt
Susanne Müller

2. http://burckhardtsource.org/

4. Jacob (Christoph)
Burckhardt
(May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897)
was a historian of art
and culture

5. Burckhardt, Jacob, Briefe, vollständig und
kritisch bearbeitete Ausgabe mit Benützung
des handschriftlichen Nachlasses hergestellt
von Max Burckhardt, 11 Bde., Basel 1949–
1994.

7. Critical editions — meaning accurate and reliable versions of a
text with an apparatus that presents and analyzes the evidence
and source material to reconstruct and explain the original —
have been a central part of the humanities for centuries.

10. transcription of the manuscript
checking of the electronic text against the original
collation of the text
creation of the critical apparatus

15. • People
• Places
• Dates
• Quotations
• Bibliographic References
• Works of art

16. OPERE D‘ARTE

17. Vecellio, Cesare, Habiti antichi, et moderni di tutto il mondo. Di nuovo accresciuto di
molte figure. Vestitus antiquorum, recentiorumque totius orbis, Venetia 1598.
Bonnard, Camille, Costumes des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles, extraits des monumens les
plus authentiques de peinture et de sculpture, avec un texte descriptif et historique,
2 voll., Paris 1829-30.