Constructing a Metanarrative for Stefan Zweig's Literary Estate

The authors discuss the possibilities and challenges involved in the Stefan Zweig Digital project. Digital collections encourage narrative possibilities of the archive in two ways: (1) they recreate the experience of the physical archive as a single entity; and (2) they enable an enhanced research experience. However, they also run the risk of lessening or eradicating original and pre-digital contextual relationships between materials. Despite the risks, potential benefits to scholarship are too great. Archivists acknowledge their mediating role in constructing a metanarrative around digital collections.