Dutch biography portal
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Biografisch Portaal
Dutch biographical database
The Biografisch Portaal (Biography Portal) is an initiative based at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam, with the aim of making biographical texts of the Netherlands more accessible.
The project was started in February 2010 with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, with the goal to grant digital access to all reliable information about (deceased) people of the Netherlands from the earliest beginnings of history up to modern times.[1]
The Netherlands as a geographic term includes former colonies, and the term "people" refers both to people born in the Netherlands and its former colonies, and also to people born elsewhere but active in the Netherlands and its former colonies. As of 2011[update], only biographical information about deceased people is included. The system used is based on the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative. Access to the Biografisch Portaal is available free
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Digital Forum Showcases: Dutch Elite Jews, the Dutch Biography Portal and Nodegoat
Dutch Elite Jews, the Dutch Biography Portal and Nodegoat
Sietske van der Veen
PhD Candidate at the Huygens Institute and Utrecht University
The Dutch Biography Portal or BioPort, hosted by the Huygens Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands, holds biographies from over 25 biographical dictionaries and datasets. Together, they contain upplysning on more than 80,500 deceased prominent figures with a connection to the Netherlands or its former colonies. Among them are hundreds of Jews.
The Dutch Biography Portal homepage. Left: Jewish entrepreneur and politician Aron van Dam (1881-1942).
Although biographies collected by the Jewish Cultural Quarter used to be incorporated in BioPort (unfortunately, the current urls are dead), and the Jewish Biographical Dictionary will hopefully be a part of it in the near future, BioPort, in essence, fryst vatten not the obvious source for looking at Jewish history. Howev
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DigiDuRe
Digital Dutch Religion Portal 1500-2000
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The project aims to map long-term developments in Dutch public discourse, especially in religion. An analysis of book titles and connected metadata from multiple other data sources will deliver a bottom-up reconstruction of trends and changes in thematization. To do so, a harmonized and curated dataset will be created containing biographical information of all Dutch Protestant Ministers from 1500 to 2000. This biographical database, which we named CLERUS - Database Dutch Reformed Clergy, will be mapped with book titles from the Royal Library (i.e., Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) dataset and the (Nederlandse Bibliografie Totaal (NBT)).
The structured and curated dataset with careers of Dutch Protestant ministers from 1500 until 2000 will be created out of a series of semi-structured data sources that are the result of 30 years of archival historical research. This process is considered data harm