Biografisch Portaal

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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.

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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, 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 through a web-based interface.

The project is a cooperative undertaking by ten scientific and cultural bodies in the Netherlands with the Huygens Institute as main contact. The other bodies are:

Besides ongoing digital projects, Dutch biographical dictionaries originally published in book form that have been digitized and incorporated into the indexes of the Biografisch Portaal are: [2]

As of November 2012 the Biografisch Portaal contained 80,206 persons in 125,592 biographies. In February 2012, a new project was started called "BiographyNed" to build an analytical tool for use with the Biografisch Portaal that will link biographies to events in time and space. [4] The main goal of the three-year project is to formulate 'the boundaries of the Netherlands'. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ article on government website of the Dutch constitution
  2. ↑ List of collections on the Biografisch Portaal website
  3. ↑ This is the only indexed dictionary that cannot be accessed from IP addresses outside Dutch university libraries
  4. ↑ "Toekenning BiographyNed Huygens ING / VU". knaw.nl. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
  5. ↑ "Grant for eHumanities project: BiographyNed - 2012 - Faculty of Arts, VU University Amsterdam". vu.nl. 24 February 2012.
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