The forthcoming Klostermann monograph is, in effect, the methodological synthesis of nearly a decade of work on early modern police ordinances. It takes as its object the Mandatenbücher of the Bernese city-state (1528–1795) — a corpus of nearly three centuries of normative governance — and applies to them, systematically, the methodology developed across the Rubicon, Veni, and HAICu projects: HTR-driven transcription, semantic segmentation, automatic metadating with Annif, and multilingual classification via the RHONDA ontology.
The book is co-authored with specialists from several disciplines (legal history, digital humanities, archive science) and is intended as a methodological reference work for the field of digital legal history.