Repository for Digital Editions of Legal Historical Sources: ‘IURA. Sources of Law from the Past’)

Abstract

Summary The article is a short presentation of the knowledge base ‘IURA. Sources of Law from the Past’ (https://iura.uj.edu.pl/dlibra). The main goal of the project is to build a comprehensive knowledge base with interlinked and easily searchable content from various sources of historical law. The system of content links will help the user to get a broader picture of various sections or dimensions of the legal world, i.e. texts of the law and normative regulations, references to the law or laws, legal literature, or references to the implementation of the law. A set of advanced search tools will enable the user to find and select, with some degree of precision, the scope of relevant content throughout the digitalized source material. Moreover, it will be possible to conduct searches using standardized metadata descriptions. The article contains a short description of selected sources collections.