Digital humanities project for the complete digitization and online availability of Stefan Zweig's works, correspondence, autographs, biographical materials, and personal library.
- Website: https://stefanzweig.digital
- Zenodo Archive: https://zenodo.org/uploads/17421555
The data/ directory contains TEI-XML encoded archival data and digital facsimiles organized by collection type:
- Correspondence (SZDKOR) - Letters and correspondence
- Works (SZDWRK) - Published writings and literary works
- Autographs (SZDAUT) - Handwritten manuscripts
- Library (SZDBIB) - Personal book collection
- Biography (SZDBIO) - Life calendar and biographical timeline
- Essays (SZDESS) - Articles and academic essays
- Personal Documents (SZDLEB) - Life documents
- Index (SZDPER) - Person authority file
- Glossary (SZDGLR) - Subject terminology
The webpage/ directory contains static page content and assets including about pages, imprint information, landing page content, audio files, and images used throughout the website. See webpage/README.md for details on image linking and reference types.
The szd-zenodo-backup/ directory provides an automated archival pipeline for long-term preservation on Zenodo. This directory contains only scripts and documentation. The actual data is generated locally and uploaded to Zenodo with DOI versioning. The pipeline handles complete backup of digitized objects including high-resolution images with FAIR-compliant metadata.
Documentation includes quick start guides, technical details, FAIR principles analysis, and data quality assessments. See szd-zenodo-backup/README.md for usage instructions.
The scripts/ directory contains data processing and reconciliation tools, including instance data generation (generate_instances.py) and Klawiter bibliography reconciliation (reconcile_klawiter.py).
The ontology/ directory contains the Stefan Zweig Digital Nachlass-Ontologie — a formal OWL ontology for the digital estate based on Records in Context (RiC-O), IFLA LRM, and CIDOC-CRM.
- Live Documentation: https://chpollin.github.io/SZD/ontology/
- Namespace:
https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:szd.ontology# - Version: 1.2.0 (two-layer architecture: generic
nachlass:+ SZD-specificszdo:) - Generic Ontology:
nachlass-ontology.ttl(https://w3id.org/nachlass#) -- reusable for any estate project - GAMS Compatibility: Full backward-compatible mapping from English v0.x names via
owl:equivalentClass/Property - Validation: 6-stage pipeline (Syntax, SHACL, OWL, OntoClean, 22 Competency Questions) -- run
python ontology/validate.py - Design Document: knowledge/ONTOLOGY.md
The docs/ directory serves the project documentation site at https://chpollin.github.io/SZD/:
- Project: https://chpollin.github.io/SZD/project/ — DH project description, collections, methodology, FAIR compliance
- Ontology: https://chpollin.github.io/SZD/ontology/ — Bilingual (DE/EN) class/property reference, vocabulary badges
- Downloads: https://chpollin.github.io/SZD/downloads/ — TEI-XML, RDF, Ontologie, Glossar, Klawiter-Bibliographie, Zenodo
The knowledge/ directory provides comprehensive technical documentation including TEI-XML data models, collection overviews, system architecture, correspondence corpus statistics, TEI-CSV schema mapping, and the ontology design document. See knowledge/README.md for navigation.
The project uses TEI-XML (Text Encoding Initiative P5) as the primary data format with metadata following METS/MODS and DFG-METS library standards, while Zenodo deposits use DataCite Schema 4.0 for metadata description. The website runs on GAMS (Geisteswissenschaftliches Asset Management System) hosted at University of Graz, providing XML/TEI repository infrastructure, METS/MODS metadata support, and Blazegraph for SPARQL queries. Long-term archival storage is provided by Zenodo with DOI versioning. Data processing, validation, and ontology tooling are written in Python.
- Code, ontology, scripts, and tooling: MIT.
- Documentation, knowledge documents, and other textual content: CC BY 4.0.
- Archival research data: the TEI-XML encoded estate materials and digital facsimiles originate from the Stefan Zweig collection held by the Literaturarchiv Salzburg (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg); those rights remain with the archive.
- Lina Maria Zangerl (Literaturarchiv Salzburg) - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9709-3669
- Julia Rebecca Glunk (Literaturarchiv Salzburg) - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6647-9729
- Oliver Matuschek
- Christopher Pollin (Digital Humanities Craft OG) - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4879-129X
- Literaturarchiv Salzburg (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg) - Original materials and digitization
- GAMS (University of Graz) - Digital infrastructure and hosting platform
- Zenodo - Long-term preservation platform
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Last Updated: March 2026