maps
Offering access to colonial-era map collections from the Dutch National Archive
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Repository
Offering access to colonial-era map collections from the Dutch National Archive
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: globalise-huygens
- License: cc-by-4.0
- Language: Python
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://globalise-huygens.github.io/maps/
- Size: 7.21 MB
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- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
- Releases: 1
Metadata Files
README.md
GLOBALISE Map Collection
This repository is part of the GLOBALISE project. It provides access to map collections from the Dutch National Archive (and in future other heritage institutions). These collections include maps from the 17th and 18th centuries of regions under Dutch colonial influence.
The repository provides scripts to prepare maps for annotation by creating IIIF Manifests and Collections, enabling georeferencing and transcription, thereby supporting research in the GLOBALISE project and beyond. Additionally, the repository includes pilot projects for automated enrichments of the maps. These are work in progress.
Overview
The repository contains the following components:
Map Collection
The map collection is a structured dataset of maps from the Dutch National Archive, compiled as IIIF Collections and IIIF Manifests (cf. IIIF Presentation 3.0). The dataset is generated from the archive's EAD files (included in the data/NA folder). These can be generated with the make_iiif_manifests.py and make_collection.py scripts.
The files are not included in this repository due to their size. However, they can be found in the repository's data deposit on Zenodo. The files are also hosted by GLOBALISE:
- Collection of all collections: https://data.globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/manifests/maps/collection.json
- Mirador viewer of all collections: https://projectmirador.org/embed/?iiif-content=https://data.globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/manifests/maps/collection.json
Enrichments
These are work in progress and include work on:
- Georeferencing
- Text spotting
- Transcription
- Image segmentation
Other
Some static files are included in this repository. This includes a Mirador viewer for the map collection, which serves the GitHub pages: https://globalise-huygens.github.io/maps.
License
The data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. A copy of the repository is available in Zenodo.
Owner
- Name: GLOBALISE
- Login: globalise-huygens
- Kind: organization
- Location: Netherlands
- Website: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/
- Twitter: _GLOBALISE
- Repositories: 2
- Profile: https://github.com/globalise-huygens
Citation (CITATION.cff)
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cff-version: 1.2.0
title: GLOBALISE Early Modern Map Collection
message: >-
If you use this dataset, please cite it using the metadata
from this file.
type: dataset
authors:
- given-names: Leon
name-particle: van
family-names: Wissen
email: l.vanwissen@uva.nl
affiliation: University of Amsterdam
orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8672-025X'
- name: GLOBALISE Project
website: 'https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/'
repository-code: 'https://github.com/globalise-huygens/maps'
abstract: >-
This repository is part of the GLOBALISE project, offering
access to colonial-era map collections from the Dutch
National Archive (and in future other heritage
institutions). These collections include significant maps
created during the 17th and 18th centuries, depicting
regions under Dutch colonial influence. The repository
provides scripts for preparing these maps for enrichment
by creating IIIF Manifests and Collections, making them
accessible for georeferencing, annotation, and further
research in the GLOBALISE project and beyond.
Additionally, the repository includes pilot projects for
automated enrichments of the maps. These are work in
progress.
keywords:
- Dutch East India Company
- VOC Archives
- Early Modern Maps
- GLOBALISE
- Linked Open Data
- IIIF
- Annotations
license: CC-BY-4.0
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Dependencies
- actions/checkout v3 composite
- actions/configure-pages v3 composite
- actions/deploy-pages v2 composite
- actions/upload-pages-artifact v1 composite
- pycocotools *