ViRR
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ViRR (Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht) is a collaboration of the MPDL with the Max Planck Institute for European History of Law.
Aim[edit]
Today, much information about the law of the Holy Roman Empire exists, but is available as multiple artefacts and distributed over several institutions and libraries. The "Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht" will provide a digital compilation and working environment for various artefacts of the period of the German Holy Empire. VIRR will be a published collection and also a cooperative working environment. The collection will be indexed, edited, and enlarged cooperatively within the discipline.
Summary[edit]
A collection of 15 scanned books (together more than 16000 pictures) represents the basis of ViRR. These scans should become online available with free browsing and navigation functionalities. Further on, the collection should be expanded with the transcriptions of the Table of Contents of the books and later on with the whole transcriptions of all pages.
One step further 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, a overall collection of links suitable for the "Reichsrecht" should be integrated analog to 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.
Possible working scenarios are:
- Submission of digitized work
- Transcription and markup of the digitized work
- Assignment of keywords and synonyms to the digitized work
- Annotations (with different visibilities) of the digitized work
- Adding (external) lexical corpora
- Publishing of digitized works
- Search in collection
- Browse and display collection
- Create personal working sets within the environment
Basis[edit]
Currently, only the digitized work ("Digitalisate") of the relevant books are available here (belongs to other digitized work from the cooperation of the institute with the Heidelberger Akademie). All pictures are saved in four different sizes: fil < film < indiv < max. The original Tiffs are hosted by the GWDG. The names of the folders and files are derived from the signatures of the institute (analog to the list of digitized work).
File Formats:
- The images are available as tiff, pdf, jpeg (for colored pictures) and giff (for black and white pictures).
- During the digitalization, uncompressed images with a high resolution and a 24 bit color depth were created. This images serve as archive format. Based on them, the other formats for the internet presentation and the download are created.
Metadata:
- The bibliographical data of the digitized works can be delivered by the institute in MAB ("Maschinenlesbares Austauschformat für Bibliotheken"). MAB describes one special data structure which is used on libraries for the exchange of metadata.
Copyright:
- The source of the digitized works are public domain. The digitized works themselves don't have a copyright, they are free for further usage.
- Only integrated secondary literature have to be checked for copyright licenses.
Requirements[edit]
see ViRR Scope
Related Links and Projects[edit]
- The institute already has experiences with digital collections, see e.g their Digital Library.
- Later on, further books should be digitalized. Therefore, a collaboration with the DTA (Deutsches Text Archiv) will be discussed. The aim of the DTA is to create a digital collection with several hundred million tokens (words) from German documents. This collection should contain the scans and transcriptions of the documents and should reflect a representative picture of the linguistic and cultural development of starting from the middle of the 17th century until now.
- Rules for digitization (DFG, March 2007, in German) Praxisregeln Digitalisierung document "Praxisregeln" considered while evaluating digitization projects. The paper covers following aspects:
- selection of works
- digitization techniques
- digital preservation
- metadata (METS and TEI for structure metadata, should)
- re-use and integration with portals (OAI-PMH, must)
- persistent identification (URNs and/or DOIs, should)
- accessibility of metadata & digitized works (open access, must)
- required functionalities for representation