scribes and modernizes. Soon you will not only be able to view original documents online, but you will have a transcription and translation as well. The relevant sources held by the University of Greifswald, Wismar City, and Greifswald State archives are gathered online.7 We hope in the not too distant future to be able to offer colleagues in libraries, archives andmuseums the chance to add their material, creating a single destination for all legal sources in the Baltic, easily accessible and translated by a computer program – the dream of every legal historian in the region! What will be needed is a solid reference system, because it makes no sense to use the Internet as a dumping ground for millions of digitized sources without any indication of how people should find their way around and make sense of it all. That is what lies ahead for the archivists and the legal historians – they who no longer have to take a ferry, but can sit at home in an armchair with a glass of good red wine and discover the newworld from there. That said, they should still be sure to visit their old friends and new colleagues to share their new ideas and insights, because as we all know, it is fun to see one another, to remember the good times, and to prepare for even better ones to come. 7 Rechtsprechung im Ostseeraum, rechtsprechung-im-ostseeraum.archiv.uni-greifswald.de. part i • supreme courts • nils jörn 100
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