The Imperial Diet of Regensburg of 1576 - a Pilot Project on the Digital Edition of sources on the Early Modern Era

近年来，数字化转型在人文学科基础研究中取得了什么样的动力，这一研究项目的历史令人印象深刻。虽然在项目开始时（2018年），很少有档案馆允许第三方免费使用他们的数字图像，但情况已经发生了根本性的变化。自2020年秋季以来，项目团队一直在与几个档案馆进行谈判，这些档案馆保存了1576年帝国议会的核心原始材料。他们都同意将已经在我们的“二级档案”中的图像，以及在项目期间出于研究目的收集的手稿复制品纳入其中，从而使它们可以公开访问。增加这些图像将大大提高目前研究的最终质量，因为它们将扩大版本，并通过纳入这些图像，既受益于又展示了数字编辑的附加值和项目中采用的新编辑方法。现在，在标准化的元数据和高分辨率图像的帮助下，有可能将印刷编辑中编辑选择过程中丢失的所有信息都“纳入图片”。这大大增加了该版本的开放性和灵活性，以回答不同的问题并采用新的方法。由于档案的总量，涉及高度相关主题的原始材料，如货币问题或宗教异议的表现及其处理方式，以前只能少量提供。现在，它们可以被集成访问。通过这种方式，我们可以更充分地了解帝国议会作为全欧洲政治交流的中心，以及里根斯堡的审议实践，以及那些带着他们的关切和要求来到这座城市的人，从卑微的农民到萨沃伊的杜克，都被纳入了画面。可以提供更多的例子。拟议项目旨在通过数字传真丰富已经产生的研究数据，以便以数字版本的形式广泛访问这些宝贵的资源，并在历史研究数字化转型的背景下讨论这种做法和基础技术。

What dynamics the digital transformation has gained in recent years in basic research in the humanities is impressively illustrated by the history of this research project. While at the beginning of the project (2018), very few archives gave permission to third parties to use their digital images free of charge, the situation has changed fundamentally. Since autumn 2020, the project team has been in talks with several archives holding source material central to the Imperial Diet of 1576. They all have granted permission to include the images that are already in our ‘secondary archive’, reproductions of manuscripts that have been collected for research purposes during the project, and thus to make them publicly accessible. The addition of these images would represent a substantial increase in the final quality of the present research, as they would expand the edition and, through their inclusion, both benefit from and demonstrate the added value of digital editing and the new editorial approach pursued in the project. Now, with the help of standardised metadata and highresolution images, it is possible to bring ‘into the picture’ all the lost bits that fell to the wayside during editorial selection in print editing. This substantially increases the openness and flexibility of the edition for answering different questions and pursuing new methodological approaches. Source materials which touch on highly relevant topics, such as currency issues or the manifestations of confessional dissent and how it was dealt with, could previously only be presented marginally, given the total amount of files. Now, they can be made integrally accessible. In this way, we can more fully understand the Imperial Diet as a locus for Europe-wide political communication as well as the deliberative practices at Regensburg, and the people who came to the city with their concerns and requests, from humble peasants to the Duke of Savoy, are brought into the picture. More examples could be provided. The proposed project aims to enrich the already produced research data with digital facsimiles in order to make these valuable resources widely accessible in the form of a digital edition, as well as to discuss this practice and the underlying technology in the context of digital transformations in historical research.