Linda Robertus uses the medical journal from a 1738 voyage to Ceylon to illustrate her work on a dataset of medical terminology drawn from 18th-century VOC surgeons’ journals.
Nikhil Bellarykar, an external collaborator with the GLOBALISE project, shares practical strategies for finding historical place names in VOC records using the GLOBALISE transcriptions viewer.
On 6 February 1642, the ships of Jacob Liesvelt, merchant of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), arrived at the Thoron bay on the coast of Quinam. Here, he sent…
Working with the GLOBALISE transcriptions of the VOC archives that are publicly available both as a download and through a temporary transcription viewer can be challenging. As the archival material…
Earlier this year, GLOBALISE together with the University of Amsterdam’s CREATE Lab organised a collaborative datasprint on historical places in the area around the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago. This…
Date: Monday 4 December
Time: 13:00 – 16:15
Location: Room F0.01 at the Humanities Labs, University of Amsterdam (Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48 Amsterdam).
Tools: Bring your own laptop!
Are you a historian or a student of history at university with a keen interest in trade, material culture, commodity histories or just good old historical research? If yes, we at the GLOBALISE Project, in collaboration with the CREATE Lab (UvA), invite you to participate in a workshop to contribute to and enrich our thesaurus of commodities traded in the early modern Indian Ocean world.
Do you know what a roll of ‘periemoenemolam’ is? Or what ‘gorgorongs’ are for that matter? Chance is, that you will at some point encounter cryptic terms like these as types of traded goods in the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). This blog post tells about the efforts of the GLOBALISE project to create a thesaurus of textiles that helps researchers find their way in the VOC archives
Update: we published a first version of the Polities dataset in July 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/SOS0KC You have been pouring over the archives for weeks together in search of precious information on…
