Einstein Archive

The Einstein Archive is a digitization initiative from the California Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It includes digitized manuscripts of personal and scientific writings and travel logs. The click through on the site is rather difficult to follow. The labels aren't very clear and the user doesn't really get a good sense of where the linked text will take them. It is similarly difficult to travel back without going through each page via the back button. After six clicks I finally reached actual material. There I found a database record chock full of metadata and finally image links. The images I viewed were available in German and English and were typed and appeared to be published works. The audience for the site could vary. Einstein is a popular figure, but many of his works would only be seriously considered by scholars. He is however, exceedingly popular so it seems that most of his published works would be widely available. The real gems of this exhibit are the travel logs and more personal items. Although, they can be a bit tricky to find.