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

法律资料往往是研究刑法历史和与日常生活、心理和性别研究有关的犯罪史研究的基础，质疑法律实践。威斯马尔法庭任命的法律陪审员(1760-1848)做出裁决的记录理由，以及格雷夫斯瓦尔德法学院(1591-1893)的文件，都可以作为刑事司法传统的关键资料来源，不仅对波美拉尼亚，而且对整个南波罗的海地区都是如此。维斯马尔法庭的法律案件来自神圣罗马帝国(瑞典波美拉尼亚和维斯马尔自治领)内的瑞典领地和格雷夫斯瓦尔德法律系的档案，从而代表了在波美拉尼亚、梅克伦堡、汉堡、L吕贝克和石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因之间广泛采用的L·贝克法律。此外，还将包括1701年至1872年期间威斯马镇议会律师的法律辩论，其中展示了L·贝克法律的使用以及格雷夫斯瓦尔德法学院的论点对威斯马镇议会判决的影响。另一方面，来自Wismar的律师的这些推理构成了向Wismar法庭上诉的基础，Wismar法庭是神圣罗马帝国瑞典领地的上诉法院。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，以便特别加以编目和数字化。由于消息来源的特殊性，到目前为止，它们只按时间顺序排列，或参照指控。到目前为止，还没有关于内容的结构，这是非常需要的。这种编目一方面是通过向其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)和关键词识别(KWS)的自动方法来工作，以便通过搜索项来发起调查。

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.