Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch Maps
Working from the GLOBALISE project, we have enhanced access to over 5,000 Dutch maps from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, renowned for their geographic and historical significance. We have laid the groundwork for enriching these maps with annotations and metadata following the Internation...
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Working from the GLOBALISE project, we have enhanced access to over 5,000 Dutch maps from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, renowned for their geographic and historical significance. We have laid the groundwork for enriching these maps with annotations and metadata following the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standards, directly linked to their digital representations from the collection-holding institutions. This approach ensures a FAIR framework for sharing research results and fosters collaborative annotation. We enriched the maps with georeferencing annotations and employed automated tools to extract toponyms and geographic features, enabling large-scale analysis. These annotations open new pathways for exploring understudied historical regions, such as early modern Kerala, and assessing Dutch colonial influence globally. By publishing our data early, we aim to encourage further collaborative refinements, allowing a wider scholarly community to improve and build upon this work. This approach highlights the potential of combining historical cartography with computational tools to empower large-scale geographic and historical research.
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• Dataset of over 5,000 early modern Dutch maps, accessible for collaborative annotation.
• Automated tools used to extract geographic features, toponyms, and cartographic symbols from maps.
• New opportunities for large-scale analysis of early modern topographies and Dutch colonial influence.
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| spelling | doaj-art-cfa79072286d4290b34d67e9315c8efd2025-01-12T07:07:07ZengEuropean Association of GeographersEuropean Journal of Geography1792-13412410-74332025-01-0110.48088/ejg.si.spat.hum.l.wis.12.17728Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch MapsLeon van Wissen0Manjusha Kuruppath1Lodewijk Petram2University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsHuygens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The NetherlandsHuygens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands Working from the GLOBALISE project, we have enhanced access to over 5,000 Dutch maps from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, renowned for their geographic and historical significance. We have laid the groundwork for enriching these maps with annotations and metadata following the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standards, directly linked to their digital representations from the collection-holding institutions. This approach ensures a FAIR framework for sharing research results and fosters collaborative annotation. We enriched the maps with georeferencing annotations and employed automated tools to extract toponyms and geographic features, enabling large-scale analysis. These annotations open new pathways for exploring understudied historical regions, such as early modern Kerala, and assessing Dutch colonial influence globally. By publishing our data early, we aim to encourage further collaborative refinements, allowing a wider scholarly community to improve and build upon this work. This approach highlights the potential of combining historical cartography with computational tools to empower large-scale geographic and historical research. Highlights: • Dataset of over 5,000 early modern Dutch maps, accessible for collaborative annotation. • Automated tools used to extract geographic features, toponyms, and cartographic symbols from maps. • New opportunities for large-scale analysis of early modern topographies and Dutch colonial influence. https://www.eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj/article/view/717Historical CartographyGeographic Information Systems (GIS)Spatial AnalysisIIIF FrameworkAnnotationColonial History |
| spellingShingle | Leon van Wissen Manjusha Kuruppath Lodewijk Petram Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch Maps European Journal of Geography Historical Cartography Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Spatial Analysis IIIF Framework Annotation Colonial History |
| title | Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch Maps |
| title_full | Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch Maps |
| title_fullStr | Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch Maps |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch Maps |
| title_short | Unlocking the Research Potential of Early Modern Dutch Maps |
| title_sort | unlocking the research potential of early modern dutch maps |
| topic | Historical Cartography Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Spatial Analysis IIIF Framework Annotation Colonial History |
| url | https://www.eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj/article/view/717 |
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