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

这个研究项目的历史令人印象深刻地说明了近年来数字化转型在人文学科基础研究中所取得的动态。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其数字图像，但情况已经发生了根本性的变化。自2020年秋季以来，该项目团队一直在与几家档案馆进行谈判，这些档案馆保存着1576年帝国国会的核心原始材料。他们都同意将已经在我们的“二级档案”中的图像包括进来，这些图像是在项目期间为研究目的而收集的手稿的复制品，从而使它们能够公开访问。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，并通过它们的加入，从数字编辑和项目中追求的新编辑方法的附加价值中受益并展示出来。现在，在标准化元数据和高分辨率图像的帮助下，在印刷编辑的编辑选择过程中，所有丢失的部分都有可能“进入画面”。这大大增加了版本的开放性和灵活性，以回答不同的问题和追求新的方法方法。涉及高度相关主题的原始材料，例如货币问题或忏悔异议的表现形式及其处理方式，以前由于文件的总量，只能在次要位置上展示。现在，它们可以被完整地访问。通过这种方式，我们可以更全面地了解帝国议会作为欧洲范围内政治交流的场所，以及雷根斯堡的审议实践，以及从卑微的农民到萨沃伊公爵，带着他们的关切和要求来到这座城市的人们。可以提供更多的例子。拟议的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.