(4) Literature data: Digital collection research

The digital holdings of the DLA are constantly and rapidly growing in all areas of the archive. Emails, electronic scripts, net literature, virtual adaptations of literature in games – these growth areas are processed with the help of digital collection research, which takes place in the context of several cooperation projects. The sub-department ›Digital Archive, Digital Humanities, Research Data Management‹ maintains close communication with professionals in the community to promote dialogue on subjects such as ›best practice‹ in developing and running a digital archive. 

Currently, two digital edition projects are being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the »Digital edition of Hans-Georg Gadamer's correspondence«, a cooperation with the Bergische University Wuppertal, and the »Digital edition of Max Brod's diaries« in cooperation with the Max Brod Research Centre Jena-Weimar at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

The edition of Peter Handke's notebooks is being compiled by the Literary Archive of the Austrian National Library and the German Literary Archive in Marbach in collaboration with the Research and Data Services Department of the Austrian National Library. It combines the holdings of both archives and is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).