VALEP:About
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The history of VALEP
VALEP was projected since sometime in the 2010s. We started programming in March 2020. The first version of VALEP which is online for testing and optimization since 2020-11-11 was programmed by Maximilian Damböck and designed by Christian Damböck. The plan is to distribute VALEP to a wider audience in March 2021, after having removed important bugs and added decisive new features.
Hosts, supporters, and financiers
VALEP is located at the virtual server valep.vc.univie.ac.at. The server belongs to the University of Vienna and is operated and financed by the Institute Vienna Circle. Financial support for the development of the VALEP software came from the FWF research grant P31716 and from the Vienna Circle Society.
In a future implementation which is projected for 2022 VALEP will also mirror its data in the University of Vienna's digital depository Phaidra. The staff and consultants of Phaidra already supported the development of the first version of VALEP; this included general questions of archival science (Susanne Blumesberger), questions of database design and the technical integration of Phaidra (Raman Ganguly), copyright issues (Seyavash Amini Khanimani), and all details of the metadata design of VALEP (Ratislav Hudak).
Cooperation Partners of VALEP
We are recently seeking cooperation partners among several international archives that house material on the history of Logical Empiricism. If you are interested in cooperating with VALEP as an institution or simply using VALEP for your own research and store the material that you collected in the archives please contact Christian Damböck.
Archives of Scientific Philosophy (ASP), Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh
The Archives of Scientific Philosophy share their electronic resources with VALEP. This includes the scans of parts of the papers of Rudolf Carnap, Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard C. Jeffrey, Hans Reichenbach, Frank Plumpton Ramsey, and Rose Rand. The material comprises about 30,000 scans and will be available in VALEP by May 2021. We would like to thank Ed Galloway and Clinton T. Graham for their support.
