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Oct 24, 2025 - HSNDB-surveys
Mandemakers, Kees, 2025, "Overview databases with historical longitudinal data", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/VEODGX, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:IH1cyj0/An3Ilad36Qdukg== [fileUNF]
In the last 65 years several major historical databases with reconstructed life courses of large populations have been launched. Around 1990, we could find two important types of databases with longitudinal micro-data. The first type were event databases aimed on family reconstru...
Oct 22, 2025 - HSNDB-surveys
Mourits, Rick J, 2025, "CLAIR-HD - Common Language for Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability in Historical Demography", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/0LMVDB, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:dnuD+r0Sjbw6pjI19HrwkA== [fileUNF]
Historical demographers have designed schemas and vocabularies to standardize historical data. CLAIR-HD gathered these schemes to create an overview of the existing languages used in historical demography. The state of the field was summarised in 2024 by Mourits, Stapel, and Risw...
Oct 15, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Pepping, Kay, 2023, "Overzicht van Generale Missiven in het archief van de VOC, 1.04.02", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/BHKMWE, IISH Data Collection, V4, UNF:6:lzyatzv3AIUdPe9QjUuP7g== [fileUNF]
Deze dataset geeft een overzicht van geïdentificeerde generale missiven binnen 1.04.02, het archief van de Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie in het Nationaal Archief. De periodisering van de dataset is 1618 tot 1793. De geïdentificeerde generale missiven zijn voorzien van gestruc...
Sep 22, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Pepping, Kay; Mundakkal, Sailaja; Kuruppath, Manjusha, 2025, "GLOBALISE - VOC Census Records of Cochin (1700-1775)", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/OHM48J, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:NEB4esarFXWKRNxy/gMRew== [fileUNF]
This dataset provides structured information about individuals recorded in the census documents of Cochin during the period of Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) rule.
Sep 22, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Femke Brink; Kay Pepping; Manjusha Kuruppath, 2025, "GLOBALISE - Non-Western people described in the General Missive footnotes", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/DTQKI6, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:w3GDhmKPUDOp/sLnGwWf3A== [fileUNF]
This dataset is comprised of people observations from the footnotes of the General Missives RGP volumes. It focuses on linking Dutch versions of non-Western names to the biographical details in the footnotes. The aim was to both create more structured data on non-Western people i...
Sep 22, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Madison MacKenzie, 2025, "Japanese Individuals relevant to the Dutch East India Company Archives", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/MMAYDK, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:6wCJ27Hj2vk71wvgWTPmVA== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains biographical observations about historical Japanese figures from the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) and related eras. The dataset captures various types of information including personal appellations, life events (births, deaths), occupational roles, and family...
Sep 22, 2025 - GLOBALISE
Smit, Renate, 2025, "GLOBALISE - VOC Document Segmentation Dataset", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/XMCZLZ, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:6pNG8HfphDeciynT9YU+RA== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains detailed annotations of Dutch East India Company (VOC) archival documents based on the TANAP (Towards a New Age of Partnership) project. The dataset provides precise boundaries and classifications for documents within digitized archival volumes, serving as t...
Sep 18, 2025 - Resilient Diversity
Canfijn, Imran; Geelen, Alexander; Heijmans, Elisabeth; Van den Hout, Bram; Negrón, Ramona; Rensen, Bas; Rose, Sophie; Van Rossum, Matthias; Thiébaut, Rafaël; Tosun, Merve; Te Velde, Hanna; Reyes, Stefan, 2022, "Early Modern Dutch Colonial Court Records, 1637-1828", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/5KEUY9, IISH Data Collection, V3
The dataset Early Modern Dutch Colonial Court Records, 1637-1828 was created as part of the project Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800, coordinated by Catia Antunes, Ulbe Bosma, Karwan Fatah-Black and Matthias van...
Sep 8, 2025 - (Re)counting the Uncounted
Stapel, Rombert; Flens, Isabel; Vaccari, Daria; Versmissen, Rosalie, 2023, "'(Re)counting the Uncounted': Repository of Digitised Premodern Censuses in the Low Countries", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/E5BC1Y, IISH Data Collection, V19, UNF:6:k/lxA5voWlnYHE6i5FQoOw== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains the digitised censuses which were created in the NWO-funded Replication Study '(Re)counting the Uncounted. Replication and Contextualisation of Dutch and Belgian Premodern Population Estimates (1350-1800)'. In total, over 2,000 premodern censuses (of hearths...
Aug 29, 2025 - Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia Slave Trade Databases
Veenhuijsen, Martijn, 2025, "Index van aan bod gekomen en/of genoemde slaafgemaakte vrouwen bij de Raad van Justitie te Kaap de Goede Hoop", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/BZ8NNB, IISH Data Collection, V1
This Dutch-language dataset was created as part of the MA thesis "Slavernij in de Nederlandse Kaapkolonie: De onzichtbare arbeid en rol van slaafgemaakte vrouwen in het tussenstation Kaap de Goede Hoop (1652–1795)", a study of the labour and roles of enslaved women in the former...
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