A Gazetteer for the Dutch East India Company Archives: The GLOBALISE Places Dataset
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…
Example annotations in Recogito on land map ‘Kaart van het Eiland Ceylon, een klein gedeelte van de Kust van Malabar, Madure en Cormandel’ (4.VEL, 924).
Old Maps, New Discoveries: A Datasprint’s Digital Exploration
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…