Critical Online Edition of Eugenio Pacelli's Nunciature Reports (1917-1929).

Documentation

This dataset accompanies the "Critical Online Edition of Eugenio Pacelli's Nunciature Reports (1917-1929)", an open-access digital scholarly edition that critically edits, annotates, and evaluates the diplomatic correspondence of Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII, during his service as apostolic nuncio in Munich (1917-1924) and Berlin (1920-1929).

https://pacelli-edition.de/

The documents are exclusively reproduced in the respective original language. The annotation of the documents, biographies and keywords as well as the document's summaries are offered in German throughout.

The project was academically directed by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hubert Wolf and closely integrated into the structure of the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History at the University of Münster. The German Historical Institute Rome (DHIR) provided the technical infrastructure for the Pacelli edition and hosts the project's homepage. The edition was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of a twelve-year long-term project (2008-2019). 

Dataset Content

The dataset contains the following structured TEI-P5 encoded files:

• Documents: approximatly 21,000 (TEI-P5).
  • 5,400 final reports sent to the Roman Curia.
  • 5,200 draft versions by Pacelli.
  • 4,200 instructions from curial authorities.
  • 5,200 attachments enclosed in correspondence.
• Biographies: 5,394 biographical records of referenced persons (TEI-P5).
• Keywords: 4,544 files of controlled vocabulary and thematic descriptors (TEI-P5).
• XSLT Stylesheets: Transformation stylesheets used for the display and processing of the edition.
• XML Schema for validation.
• Editorial guidelines.

Data Access via API

In addition to this data repository, a REST API is provided to access documents, persons, and topics by ID in XML format (TEI-P5):

• Document: https://pacelli-edition.de/Dokument/{id}?format=xml

• Person: https://pacelli-edition.de/Personen/{id}?format=xml

• Topic: https://pacelli-edition.de/Schlagwort/{id}?format=xml

Example document: https://pacelli-edition.de/Dokument/9032?format=xml

Metadata

All documents, persons, and topics include descriptive metadata in the TEI-Header, ensuring transparency of editorial responsibility, source description, and revision history. The metadata model follows the TEI P5 guidelines and references the Editorial Guidelines: https://pacelli-edition.de/editionsrichtlinien.html.

Example Metadata (TEI-Header excerpt):

<teiHeader xml:lang="de">
      <fileDesc>
         <titleStmt>
            <title>Pacelli an Gasparri, Sui beni della diocesi di Breslavia in Cecoslovacchia, 07. Juli 1927</title>
            <respStmt>
               <resp when-iso="2022-02-01"/>
               <persName>
                  <idno type="gnd">118191705</idno>Hubert Wolf</persName>
               <orgName>
                  <idno type="gnd">36175-6</idno>Universität Münster</orgName>
            </respStmt>
         </titleStmt>
         <editionStmt>
            <edition>
               <title>Kritische Online-Edition der Nuntiaturberichte Eugenio Pacellis (1917-1929)</title>
            </edition>
            <respStmt>
               <resp>Herausgegeben von</resp>
               <persName>
                  <idno type="gnd">118191705</idno>Hubert Wolf</persName>
            </respStmt>
         </editionStmt>
         <publicationStmt>
            <publisher>
               <name>
                  <idno type="gnd">36175-6</idno>Universität Münster,
                                Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere
                                Kirchengeschichte</name>
               <address>
                  <street>Domplatz 23</street>
                  <postCode>48153</postCode>
                  <placeName>
                     <bloc>D</bloc>
                     <country>Deutschland</country>
                     <settlement>Münster</settlement>
                  </placeName>
               </address>
            </publisher>
            <publisher>
               <name>
                  <idno type="gnd">2008678-7</idno>Deutsches Historisches Institut
                                Rom</name>
               <address>
                  <street>Via Aurelia Antica 391</street>
                  <postCode>00165</postCode>
                  <placeName>
                     <bloc>IT</bloc>
                     <country>Italien</country>
                     <settlement>Rom</settlement>
                  </placeName>
               </address>
            </publisher>
            <availability>
               <licence target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">
                  <p>Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
                                    International license</p>
               </licence>
            </availability>
         </publicationStmt>
         <sourceDesc>
            <msDesc rend="typewritten" type="report" status="final">
               <msIdentifier>
                  <bloc>VA</bloc>
                  <country>Vatikanstadt</country>
                  <institution>S.RR.SS.</institution>
                  <repository>AA.EE.SS., Germania 1923-1939 493 7 8r</repository>
                  <idno type="originalID">10</idno>
                  <idno type="draft">D19911</idno>
                  <idno type="cifrato"/>
                  <idno type="cifratoVatican"/>
                  <idno type="protno">37744</idno>
                  <idno type="protnoVatikan">2082/27</idno>
                  <idno type="protnoExtern"/>
               </msIdentifier>
            </msDesc>
         </sourceDesc>
      </fileDesc>
      <profileDesc>
         <abstract xml:lang="de">
            <p>Pacelli übersendet eine Denkschrift von Oskar Pollak, dem Delegierten des Breslauer Fürstbischofs Kardinal Bertram für die Verhandlungen mit der Tschechoslowakei. Daraus geht hervor, dass die Gefahr einer Enteignung der Güter des Fürstbistums Breslau für den Moment gebannt erscheint.</p>
         </abstract>
         <correspDesc n="1">
            <correspAction type="sent">
               <name>
                  <persName key="#P16027">Pacelli, Eugenio</persName>
               </name>
               <placeName>Berlin</placeName>
               <date when="1927-07-07"/>
            </correspAction>
            <correspAction type="received">
               <name>
                  <persName key="#P07008">Gasparri, Pietro</persName>
               </name>
            </correspAction>
            <correspContext>
               <ptr type="attachment" target="#D00574"/>
            </correspContext>
         </correspDesc>
      </profileDesc>
      <revisionDesc>
         <listChange>
            <change when="2019-02-25">Online</change>
            <change when="2022-02-01">Change</change>
         </listChange>
      </revisionDesc>
   </teiHeader>

Authority Data Integration

The edition integrates external authority files such as GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei) and VIAF (Virtual International Authority File). Each person or subject is linked to these identifiers for interoperability and Linked Data compatibility.

Example:

<person xml:id="P00108">
    <idno type="originalID">108</idno>
    <idno type="viaf">232758672</idno>
    <idno type="gnd">1020951346</idno>
    <persName>
        <forename>Fritz</forename>
        <surname>Beck</surname>
    </persName>
</person>