Rijksmuseum
Public Domain digital collection from the Rijksmuseum. (17-02-2021)
Golden Agents: Creative industries and the making of the Dutch Golden Age
The Golden Agents project is a sustainable research infrastructure to study relations and interactions between producers and consumers of creative goods in the Dutch Golden Age.
Partners
Datasets
Notary network
The Notaries network contains biographical data about notaries. The dataset is based on the Repertorium van Notarissen.
Het Schrijverskabinet – Panpoëticon Batavûm
The Panpoëticon Batavûm is a collection of small portraits of Dutch poets (and writers in general). The collection was set up at the beginning of the eighteenth century by the painter Arnoud Halen (1673-1732).
Ja, ik wil!
This dataset is a Golden Agents RDF conversion of the data that was collected in the Vele Handen Citizen Science-project ‘Ja, ik wil!’ [Yes, I do!]. The dataset contains the socio-economic data on grooms and brides that registered their marriage banns in Amsterdam for every fifth year between 1580 and 1810 in the Amsterdam marriage banns registers
Bredius excerpts
Data from the RKD’s Bredius Notes project, enriched with information from and links to the Golden Agents project.
Amsterdam Corporate Group Portraits
Dataset based on the dissertation of Norbert Middelkoop: ‘Schutters, gildebroeders, regenten en regentessen: Het Amsterdamse corporatiestuk 1525-1850’ (2019).
Occasional Poetry
The dataset with occasional poetry (=Gelegenheidsgedichten) published in the Dutch Republic between c. 1600-1800 built by the Royal Library (KB) contains 6,906 printed poems or collections of poems on a particular type of event.
CREATE: Ecartico
Linking cultural industries in the early modern Low Countries, ca. 1475 – ca. 1725. (16-03-2020)
Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands
Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN). The STCN is the Dutch retrospective bibliography for the period 1540-1800; also included are concise descriptions of Dutch (post-)incunabula.
CREATE: ONSTAGE
Online Datasystem of Theatre in Amsterdam from the Golden Age to the present. This is your address for questions about the repertoire, performances, popularity and revenues of the cultural program in Amsterdam’s public theatre during the period 1637 – 1772.
Ontologies
Ontologies
The Golden Agents project has developed ontologies to support research of interactions between the various branches of the creative industries of the Dutch Golden Age and between producers and consumers of cultural goods.
Tools
Query the Golden Agents (Beta)
Our Agent Tools help to build complex queries to search the datasets. It assists you in finding en searching the right dataset. You can query directly using SPARQL or use the Querybuilder, a gui to build your queries.
Browse the datasets
Use the Timbuctoo Dataset Browser to explore the Golden Agents Datasets.
Lenticular Lens
Lenticular Lens is a tool which allows users to construct linksets between entities from different Timbuctoo datasets (so called data-alignment or reconciliation).
Analiticcl
Analiticcl is an approximate string matching or fuzzy-matching system that can be used for spelling correction or text normalisation.
Recogito Geo plugin
With the Recogito-JS geotagging-widget, you can use the Recogito-JS or Annotorious framework to add annotations to text or images regarding geographical locations.
Graph Embeddings
Create entity resolution on complex historical knowledge graphs.
Timbuctoo
Timbuctoo is a tool to publish your research dataset.
Research cases
Montias Case
The Montias Case: an experiment with data reconciliation and provenance between research and cultural heritage institutions
Papers and presentations
Golden Agents Conference 9 november 2022
9 november 2022 (presentation)
Leon van Wissen, Jirsi Reinders
Unlocking the archives: A pipeline for scanning, transcribing, and modelling entities of archival documents into Linked Open Data DH Benelux 2020, 3 –5 June 2020 [short paper] (peer reviewed).
2021-06-02 (presentation)
Leon van Wissen , Chiara Latronico , Veruska Zamborlini , Jirsi Reinders , Charles van den Heuvel
Using Linked Data to track and trace processes of canonization in early modern Dutch literature [with: Lieke van Deinsen and Ton van Strien] (peer reviewed).
2021-09-21 (publication)
Harm Nijboer , Leon van Wissen , Judith Brouwer , Frans R. E. Blom
‘Modeling and Visualizing Storylines of Historical Interactions. Kubler’s Shape of Time and Rembrandt’s Night Watch’ in: Richard Smiraglia and Andrea Scharnhorst (eds.), Linking Knowledge. Linked Data for Knowledge Organization and Visualization (Baden-Baden 2021) 99-141.
2021-11-09 (publication)
Charles van den Heuvel , Veruska Zamborlini
A Computational Framework for Organizing and Querying Cultural Heritage Archives Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (2022) [Special Issue on Computational Archival Science](peer reviewed).
2022-08-31 (publication)
Jan de Mooij , Can Kurtan , Jurian Baas , Mehdi Dastani