Justitia Scanned: Creating Electronic Editions of Legal History Sources
International Conference at the Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar, October 11- 13, 2002
| 9:00 - 16:00 | Arrivals at any time starting 9.00 a.m.(rooms
are ready) If possible, participants should be arriving by 15:00 Lunch and snacks will be provided |
| 16:00 | Conference opens |
| 16:30 | Edward Papenfuse, Maryland State Archives Salvaging the nearly lost art of constitution making: documenting the documents |
| 18:00 | Dinner |
| Social gathering |
| Breakfast | |
| 9:00 - 12:00 | Martin Liebtruth, Goettingen Digitization Center Images of constitutions: technical aspects of the digitization process Norbert Winnige, Max-Planck-Institute for History Metadata, markup, and retrieval of textual sources Markus Enders, Goettingen Digitization Center Putting primary sources on the net |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 18:00 | Susan Wright, Court of Justice of the European
Communities and Hedwig Weiland, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany The translation of legal texts at the Court of Justice of the European Communities and at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and possible conclusions for the translation of historical constitutions. 1. From academic comparative law to legal translation in principle (Wright) 2. Conclusions from two translations of the German Basic Law (Weiland) |
| 18:00 | Dinner |
| 19:30 | Stephanie Davidson, Yale University Curiae and Avalon: a comparison of approaches to digitizing historic collections |
| 21:00 | Social gathering |
| Breakfast | |
| 9:00 - 12:00 | Matthias Schneider, University of Kassel Rise of Modern Constitutionalism: project workflow design and website Horst Dippel, University of Kassel Modern constitutionalism: An introduction to a history in the need of writing |
| 12:00 | Conference ends |
| Lunch will be provided at the conference site |