The Index Librorum Civitatum (Index of town records of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times) as a tool for basic historical research

该项目的目的是完成以前在《城市图书馆索引》中的合并信息，并进行准备，以便第一次在一个免费访问的研究数据库中提供前民主德国领土上截至1800年的所有约70，000份可检测的城镇记录。在密切的联系，并作为一个刺激，这一独特的研究工具将执行一个深入的研究很少研究，但部分完整的保存，上卢萨蒂亚城市的城镇记录。这项研究将显示数据库进行比较研究的潜力。本研究的重点是媒体的问题，使用和保存的行政记录的形式和可能性和机制的拨款，改造和发展的某些形式的行政素养从13日至16世纪末。应用于具体的历史问题将使我们能够完善国际法委员会的分析和捕获标准，并推进这些标准。因此，数据库查询标准的可组合性超出了仅仅参考城市或记录的位置验证，因此它能够进行面向问题的研究。广泛收集以前被忽视的城镇记录的信息，将首次提供一个广泛的基础，在研究区域的城镇记录的现象进行评估。随着该项目的完成，将打开扩大国际劳工中心覆盖范围的前景。

The aim of this project is to complete the previously in the Index Librorum Civitatum (ILC) merged information and prepare it so, that for the first time all of the approximately 70.000 until the year 1800 detectable town records of the territory of the former GDR are available in a freely accessible research database. In close connection and as a stimulus for this unique research tool will be executed an in-depth study of the little-studied, but partly complete preserved, town records of the Upper Lusatian cities. This study will show the potentials of the database for comparative studies. The focus of this study are questions of the media, use and the forms of keeping of administrative records and of the possibilities and mechanisms of appropriation, transformation and development of certain forms of administrative literacy from the 13th until the end of the 16th century. The application to a specific historical problem will allow us to refine the analysis and capture criteria of the ILC and to advance them. The combinability of the query criteria of the database is thereby going beyond a mere reference to the cities or location verifications of the records and so it enables problem-oriented research. The widespread gathering of information to previously neglected town records will provide for the first time a broad basis for the evaluation of the phenomenon of the town records in the study area. With the completion of the project will be opened prospects of expanding the coverage area of the ILC.