Diary Goes Digital: The Edition of Harry Graf Kessler’s Diary Online

The German Department was pleased to host Dr. Roland Kamzelak, Assistant Director and Leader of Development at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, for a talk on the digitization of the diary of Harry Graf Kessler.

Harry Graf Kessler was one of the most remarkable figures of Europe around 1900 and his extensive diary is like an eye-witness report of historical events and of developments in art and in literature. The 16,000 pages have been edited and published in a hybrid print and digital edition, and this talk explained the inner workings of the edition including the underlying data, encoding, and digital publication tools, and will discuss the value of the hybrid approach.