Digital Projects Demonstration Outline

  1. First print this page [or open a new browser window] so you will have the instructions readily available.

  2. Start with the Law Library's Digital Projects page: http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/digital/digital_projects.htm.

    1. Note our first digital project, Scarlet Trials.

    2. Click on the legal scholarship online link and then on Current Awareness Services.

    3. Click on Tables of Contents - Current List

      1. Note that a Law School e-mail account and password are needed.

    4. Go to a recent issue of interest.

      1. Explore the button.

      2. Explore the button. [Use your Westlaw account number.]

  3. Go to the Harvard Bracton page.

    1. Note the search options

    2. Select the framed version. Click on footnote references in the Latin then the English text.

  4. Go to the library's page introducing The Common Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Note that this is simply a reformatting of an already digitized work.

  5. An introduction to the library's project to catalog and provide web access to its extensive collection of legal portraits can be found here. Following the links to VIA will provide access to the images that are currently available.

  6. Now go to the old Nuremberg site: http://hlsl.law.harvard.edu/nuremberg/php/login.php3. The password is "plato".

    1. From the home page, click on Main Menu. Note the summary of the project.

    2. Under Main Menu, click on The Trials.

    3. Under Main Menu, click on The Documents. Note the many versions.

    4. Under Documents, click on Database Design.

    5. Return to the Project Page and click on Workflow.

  7. Go to the new Nuremberg project at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/digital/index.php#nuremberg

  8. From the Introduction Page, click on Who Was Who and scroll down.

  9. Now select the Documents heading and scroll down to the various versions of the documents.

  10. Now click on Search.

    1. Select IMT/NMT No. and enter NO-12.

    2. Select the Photostat of the Original German.

  11. Do a new search for NO-65. Click on the red NO-65 entry to select all versions of this document. Select the original photostat. This shows why the typescripts, both German and English, are useful.

  12.   Search for all documents referenced in the first 500 pages of the trial transcript.

    1. Review the Index to Document Book - High Altitude Experiments referenced on page 154 of the trial transcript.

    2. Find the Photographs of the high altitude experiments at Dachau taken by Dr. Sigmund Rascher, SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer. Go to the last page (p. 41), then page 4, then page 3.