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Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (1350–1800) Jan 1, 2026 - GIS of the Low Countries Stapel, Rombert, 2018, "Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (1350–1800)", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/PGFYTM, IISH Data Collection, V15 Please cite the accompanying open-access paper if you wish to use the dataset: R.J. Stapel, ‘Historical Atlas of the Low Countries. A GIS Dataset of Locality-Level Boundaries (1350–1800)’, Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 8.1 (2023), 1–33 https://doi....
'(Re)counting the Uncounted': Repository of Digitised Premodern Censuses in the Low Countries Dec 31, 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, V20, UNF:6:ao9cRuLnYcYGK9VSz5X3gw== [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...
ESTA Database Locations Dec 18, 2025 - Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia Slave Trade Databases Konings, Pascal, 2023, "ESTA Database Locations", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/IWJMHH, IISH Data Collection, V7, UNF:6:zniiM6nyv6DbRPs6F35I4A== [fileUNF] The dataset ‘ESTA Database Locations’ covers the (projected) locations in the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) project’s database as of December 2025. The ESTA Database contains data on slave trade movements, often maritime, in the larger Indian Ocean basin and East Asia, fro...
Overview databases with historical longitudinal data 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...
CLAIR-HD - Common Language for Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability in Historical Demography 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...
Overzicht van Generale Missiven in het archief van de VOC, 1.04.02 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...
GLOBALISE - VOC Census Records of Cochin (1700-1775) 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.
GLOBALISE - Non-Western people described in the General Missive footnotes 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...
Japanese Individuals relevant to the Dutch East India Company Archives 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...
GLOBALISE - VOC Document Segmentation Dataset 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...

Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (1350–1800)

Jan 1, 2026 - GIS of the Low Countries

Stapel, Rombert, 2018, "Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (1350–1800)", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/PGFYTM, IISH Data Collection, V15

Please cite the accompanying open-access paper if you wish to use the dataset: R.J. Stapel, ‘Historical Atlas of the Low Countries. A GIS Dataset of Locality-Level Boundaries (1350–1800)’, Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 8.1 (2023), 1–33 https://doi....

'(Re)counting the Uncounted': Repository of Digitised Premodern Censuses in the Low Countries

Dec 31, 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, V20, UNF:6:ao9cRuLnYcYGK9VSz5X3gw== [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...

ESTA Database Locations

Dec 18, 2025 - Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia Slave Trade Databases

Konings, Pascal, 2023, "ESTA Database Locations", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/IWJMHH, IISH Data Collection, V7, UNF:6:zniiM6nyv6DbRPs6F35I4A== [fileUNF]

The dataset ‘ESTA Database Locations’ covers the (projected) locations in the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) project’s database as of December 2025. The ESTA Database contains data on slave trade movements, often maritime, in the larger Indian Ocean basin and East Asia, fro...

Overview databases with historical longitudinal data

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...

CLAIR-HD - Common Language for Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability in Historical Demography

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...

Overzicht van Generale Missiven in het archief van de VOC, 1.04.02

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...

GLOBALISE - VOC Census Records of Cochin (1700-1775)

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.

GLOBALISE - Non-Western people described in the General Missive footnotes

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...

Japanese Individuals relevant to the Dutch East India Company Archives

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...

GLOBALISE - VOC Document Segmentation Dataset

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...

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