This essay describes the Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project (SCOS), a multi-institutional collaborative research initiative into Early America and the British Atlantic world. Developed by the digital scholarship team at the University of Virginia Law Library, in partnership with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, SCOS explores everyday life in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through Session Papers, the printed documents submitted to Scotland’s supreme civil court during litigation. The project provides scholars, genealogists, and the public with open-access digital copies of Session Papers held by the UVA Law Library, the Library of Congress, and other institutional partners. By digitizing these documents, contextualizing them with comprehensive metadata, and providing users with interpretative entry points, SCOS is designed to foster new research on this formative period of Scottish, British, and American history.

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“Ours is a Court of Papers”：使用苏格兰法庭数字档案项目探索苏格兰和英属大西洋世界

本文介绍了苏格兰法庭数字档案项目 (SCOS)，这是一项针对早期美国和英属大西洋世界的多机构合作研究计划。由弗吉尼亚大学法律图书馆的数字奖学金团队与爱丁堡大学的同事合作开发，SCOS 通过会议论文探索 18 世纪和 19 世纪早期的日常生活，会议论文是在诉讼期间提交给苏格兰最高民事法院的印刷文件. 该项目为学者、系谱学家和公众提供了 UVA 法律图书馆、国会图书馆和其他机构合作伙伴持有的会议论文的开放获取数字副本。通过将这些文档数字化，使用全面的元数据将它们置于上下文中，并为用户提供解释性入口点，