Digitization and Inventory of sources on judicial argument and the reaching of verdicts by high courts in the Baltic Sea region

法律渊源往往是刑法史研究和与日常生活、心理、性别研究相关的犯罪史研究的基础，对法律实践提出质疑。维斯玛法庭（1760-1848）法律评判员的判决理由的记录，以及格雷夫斯瓦尔德法学院（1591-1893）的档案，都可以被视为刑事司法传统的重要来源，不仅涉及波美拉尼亚，而且涉及整个波罗的海南部地区。维斯马法庭的法律案件来自神圣罗马帝国境内的瑞典封地（瑞典波美拉尼亚和维斯马自治领）和来自格赖夫斯瓦尔德法学院的档案，因此代表了在波美拉尼亚、梅克伦堡、汉堡、l<s:1>贝克和石勒苏维格-荷尔斯泰因之间广泛采用的l<s:1>贝克法。此外，将包括1701年至1872年间维斯马镇议会律师的法律论点，这表明了l<s:2>贝克法的使用以及Greifswald法律系的论点对维斯马镇议会判决的影响。另一方面，来自维斯马的律师的这些推理构成了向维斯马法庭上诉的基础，该法庭是神圣罗马帝国瑞典封地的上诉法院。因此，该项目汇集了波罗的海地区三个重要法律案例的法律意见，以便特别进行盘点和数字化。由于来源的特殊性，到目前为止，它们只是按时间顺序排列，或者参照被告。到目前为止，在内容方面没有结构，这是非常需要的。这种发明，一方面是通过提供通常的描述性结构和元数据来完成的，另一方面，我们使用手写文本识别（HTR）和关键字定位（KWS）的自动方法，以便通过搜索词启动调查。

Legal sources often form the foundation for research on the history of criminal law and for historical research on crime in correlation to daily life, mentality, and gender studies, questioning the legal practice.The recorded reasons for verdicts by the legal assessors appointed to the Tribunal of Wismar (1760-1848), as well as the files of the law faculty of Greifswald (1591-1893), can both be valued as key sources on the tradition of criminal justice, regarding not only Pomerania, but the southern Baltic Sea region in general. The legal cases of the Tribunal of Wismar originate from the Swedish fiefdoms inside the Holy Roman Empire (Swedish Pomerania and the Dominion of Wismar) and from the files of the Greifswald law faculty, thereby representing the Lübeck law which was widely adopted between Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Hamburg, Lübeck and Schleswig-Holstein. In addition, legal arguments of the lawyers at the Wismar town council between 1701 and 1872 will be included, which show the usage of the law of Lübeck and the influence of the arguments of the Greifswald law faculty on the judgements of the Wismar town council. On the other hand, those reasonings of the lawyers from Wismar form the foundation for appeals to the Tribunal of Wismar, the court of appeal for the Swedish fiefdoms in the Holy Roman Empire. Thus, this project brings together the legal opinions of three important legal instances in the Baltic Sea region in order to be inventoried and digitized particularly. Due to the pecularity of the sources, they are, up to now, only structured chronologically, or, with reference to the accusants. There is no structure so far in regards to the content, which is highly needed. This inventoring, is, on the one hand, done by supplying it with the usual descriptive structural and meta data, on the other hand, we work with automatical methods of handwritten text recognition (HTR) and of keyword spotting (KWS), in order to initiate investigation via search terms.