Indonesia's history is defined by hundreds of smaller kingdoms. Professor Hans Hägerdal discusses the challenges of documenting these diverse polities and introduces the Kerajaan2 Indonesia dataset, a digital resource for tracing the genealogies of the archipelago's many royal houses, which was instrumental for creating the Globalise polities dataset.
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…
The digitization of colonial archives opens up many possibilities for exploring collections in new ways – thereby making room for previously hidden perspectives – but it also has its challenges.…
As you might have read in our recent blog post about the commodities dataset (if you haven’t, please take a look), we are actively seeking feedback and input for our…
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…
