ViRR

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Aim

Today, much information about the law of the Holy Roman Empire ("Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation") exists, but is available as multiple artefacts and distributed over several institutions and libraries. The "Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht" will provide a digital collection and cooperative working environment for various legal artefacts of the period of the Holy Roman Empire, based on the infrastructure of eSciDoc. The collection will be indexed, edited, and enlarged cooperatively within the discipline.

Summary

The basis of ViRR is a collection of digitized works (together more than 16,000 pictures; all pictures are saved in four different sizes: fil < film < indiv < max. These scans should become online available with free browsing and navigation functionalities and can be structurally marked up via an editing interface. Further on, it is planned to extend the collection successively by the semantic indexing of the content, the integration of transcriptions and additional external sources (e.g. lexical tools)

The next step would be to expand the collection with pictures, secondary literature, sources, publications and digitized works from other institutions and projects like the DRW, the cooperation between BSB and GoogleBooks, information from library catalogs, databases of the institute and further documentations like the Polizeyordnungen.

Further on, an overall collection of links suitable for the "Reichsrecht" should be integrated in line with the link collection of the institute concerning the whole European History of Law.

Last but not least, a possibility for an overall search in all integrated sources is desirable. This search should include an index and a list of synonyms for the different spellings of the titles.

The live demonstration of ViRR can be found here.

Functionalities

• Browsing within the works of ViRR
• Display of the works within ViRR
• Search within all bibliographic and descriptive metadata of the collection
• Online editing interface for privileged users to gather structural metadata about the digitized works
• Publishing of structural metadata about the digitized works
• Assignment of keywords and synonyms to the digitized work
• Detailed view of single pages with further navigation functionalities
• Compilation and export of private subsets of pictures (as jpg or within one pdf), based on special research questions
• Export of structural metadata in METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
• Persistent storage of all data

Research Context

• Simple access from everywhere to the research materials via internet
• Long-term archiving of research materials
• Persistent referencing of the collection and its content
• Improved visibility of the institute and its holdings

Partners

ViRR (Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht) is a collaboration of the MPDL with the Max Planck Institute for european legal history (MPIeR). The institute already has experiences with digital collections, see e.g their Digital Library.

The project is coordinated by Dr. Sigrid Amedick, head of the institutes library. The basic start content of 15 books, e.g. the physical as well as the digitized artefacts belong to the holdings of the institute.

Re-Use of ViRR

The ViRR solution enables to maintain collections of digitized artefacts, such as text corpora, digitized journals or drawings. It provides...

• browsing functionalities based on user-defined table of contents (TOCs)
• an editing interface for enriching the TOC with descriptive metadata and other structural elements, such as chapters, appendices or folders
• import and export of data (e.g. METS)

Contact
Kristina Büchner
Max Planck Digital Library
Service Management

Support

For questions, proposals, comments... please send a message to the VIRR Support.

Enhanced Scientific Documentation

Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht

Portable Document Format

Max Planck Digital Library

Table of Contents

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard