Minutes of Ministers of Austria and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1848-1918, Digital Edition

The Council of Ministers was the central body of government activity. His minutes of meetings cover almost seventy years of government. As one of the few resources available, they reveal, on the one hand, the inner life of the monarchy’s governments — on the other hand, they contain vast amounts of prosopographic, political, administrative, economic, cultural and social information. They are an outstanding historical source. The 1927 Fire of Justice decimated the protocols of the Cisleithan part of the monarchy, which were created between 1867 and 1918. Nevertheless, they were used by individual historians for research. Fortunately, before the fire, some protocols had written copies for interested parties in Vienna and Prague. The damaged stock was available but difficult to access to the public. In 1967 Friedrich Engel-Janosi founded the edition of the Austrian Council of Ministers in close cooperation with Hungarian historians. It is a text-critical and annotated full text edition of the original sources in the Austrian State Archives. Firstly, the minutes of the meeting of the Council of Ministers (1852-1861) of the Austrian Empire until the Austro-Hungarian Compensation in 1867. These form the 1st series of the edition in dark blue book covers. The Austro-Hungarian balance of 1867 transformed the Austrian Empire into the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Second, the Protocols of the Joint Council of Ministers of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1867-1918, the dark red 2nd series. In the 3 rd series, the Cisleithan (Austrian) Council of Ministers’ minutes 1867-1918 are edited with light blue book covers. The first series was started in 1967 by an editor’s committee, continued by the Austrian East and South-Eastern Europe Institute in 1993 and completed in 2008 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences by the Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy, then in 2013 by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History, now Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies. It includes an introductory volume and 27 volumes in six sections. The retro-digitisation of the volumes has been completed. Text data has been available in less structured XML since 2019. This data has been completely re-edited, upgraded, metadata at log level for this digital edition using XSL transformations, as well as information on the participants, the data and, if available, links to online resources from ANNO (AustriaN Newspapers Online) and ALEX (Historical Legal and Legislative Texts Online), as well as internal links between protocols. The 2nd series has been published since 1966 by the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This stock may refer to five volumes published; the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has produced digital copies in PDF format. Here, the agenda lists from the contents of these volumes are linked to the other series as well as uncorrected full OCR text. The third series is followed by the Cisleithan (Austrian) Council of Ministers 1867-1918. They have been published at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2018 and have been developed in book form and as a digital edition. For this purpose, TEI-XML is created directly from Word documents. In this series, the depth of development is greatest because they are ‘born digital’; all mentioned entities (persons, institutions) as well as literature references are recorded using their own systems and linked in the TEI documents. Details on the history of the edition can be found in the introductory volume of the first series and in the prefaces to the individual volumes. Details on digitalisation can be found under Technical Implementation. Geographical extension of the dataset: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131964 https://histogis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/shapes/permalink/9da9f6322641f91c4d03f8c1cd1ad740/ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533534 https://histogis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/shapes/permalink/2daa8c3d941db5031a0ba167d21d0f59/