Why would the archives provide electronic versions of their treasures to HyperNietzsche, which will then make them available for free on the internet?
Some private archives will certainly be interested in raising the value of their collections by permitting them to be published in hypertext format. It increases the visibility of the collection, stimulates research on the subject, and thereby increases the value of the original documents. As far as public archives are concerned, the conservation and dissemination of their collections is simply an integral part of their mandated mission. A system like HyperNietzsche achieves simultaneously both maximal conservation, because the researchers have less need to make use of the originals, and maximal dissemination, via the internet and the use of dynamic contextualization, which connects the manuscripts immediately via hyperlinks to the relevant scholarship. Not to mention that this system would provide financial supporters of the archives with complete, direct access to the collections that their contributions subsidize. And that with this system, researchers who are not able to travel to
