Dutch Textile Project
A "visual glossary" that provides definitions of historical textile terms in the context of essays, along with visualizations of the associated data on sea voyages and discovery sites.
CapAsia Factory Atlas
A map of the factories' established by Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, and other European actors in the early modern period (1500-1800).
Early Modern Dutch Colonial Court Records
A database that let's the user explore the Early Modern Dutch Colonial Court Records of the period 1637-1828 on defendants, charges, places and other information.
Atlas of Mutual Heritage
An extensive database of historical images, including maps, floor plans, prints, drawings, and paintings related to the VOC and WIC. It allows you to search for specific trading posts (factories) and see how they were depicted visually over two centuries.
VOC Gloss Explorer
Explore terms and potential explanations from the VOC archives. Navigate historical terminology, understand archaic language, and discover contextual meanings of Dutch colonial-era vocabulary.
Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA)
A curated database reconstructing historical slave trade across the Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia. Tracks over 5,300 voyages, covering contexts from legalized trade to private human trafficking.
Maritime Asia Heritage Survey (MAHS)
Digitally documents historical sites across the Maldives, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. It includes 3D models, GIS data, and digitized manuscripts, providing a "physical" counterpart to the textual shipping records of European companies.
Bookkeeper-General Batavia (BGB)
A historical database reconstructing the circulation of commodities within the VOC during the eighteenth century. Based on surviving ledgers from the Bookkeeper-General in Batavia, covering 18,000+ voyages.
Digitarq (Portuguese National Archives)
A powerful search tool for over 8 million archival records. It provides access to the Monções do Reino (Monsoon Reports) and other vital series documenting Portuguese maritime and colonial activities in Asia from the 16th century onwards.
Japanese Historical Maps
A digital collection of over 2,000 manuscript and woodblock maps. The viewer allows for extreme zooming into city plans of Edo (Tokyo), Kyoto, and Osaka, showing the physical layout of the world the VOC and other traders encountered in Japan.
GLOBALISE Places Visualization
An interactive visualization of places mentioned in the Overgekomen Brieven en Papieren series of VOC documents. Allows users to explore historical locations across the VOC network.
China Biographical Database (CBDB)
A freely accessible database of over 600,000 individuals, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. It is designed for statistical and spatial analysis, showing how officials, traders, and scholars were connected across the Chinese empire.
BlackLab Search – General Missives
A BlackLab search environment for the General Missives of the VOC (1610–1795). Enhanced with OCR and Named Entity Recognition for complex syntactic searches and computational analysis of persons, locations, and events.
GLOBALISE Word2Vec Lab
An experimental Word2Vec model trained on GLOBALISE transcriptions. Enables discovery of spelling variants, synonyms, and contextual relationships in early modern VOC texts.
Transkribus Table Mapper
Map and align Transkribus tables with VOC transcription data. Streamline the process of converting handwritten archival tables into structured digital datasets for analysis.
GLOBALISE Transcription Search
Perform full-text searches across 4.5 million pages of automated VOC transcriptions. Find mentions of specific ships, officials, or locations across the General Letters and other archival series.
HTR Hub
HTR Hub lets you explore millions of pages of handwritten sources from Dutch-language archives, including colonial archives, within a powerful research environment.
Language Telescope
HTR Hub Language Telescope visualizes semantically connected terms as star-systems, letting you explore words that are 'close' to each other as used in historical text.
Necessary Reunions
These tools provide access to reintegrated data from VOC textual archives and maps of early modern Kerala, using techniques of georeferencing and machine-generated transcriptions.
Combatting Bias
A toolkit to explore different types of bias and their manifestations throughout the research lifecycle, including bias in colonial archives and datasets.
Dutch Atlantic Sources
An upcoming digital database that makes seventeenth-century sources on the Atlantic world, where the VOC's western counterpart the WIC was active, digitally searchable.
Dutch Asiatic Shipping (DAS)
A comprehensive database of all 8,000+ voyages of the VOC between 1595 and 1795. It provides standardized data on ship names, their tonnage, the chamber (Kamer) responsible, departure/arrival dates, and the names of the masters.
VOC Places Search
Search for placenames in the VOC Archives or link your data to GLOBALISE place-IDs. Helps researchers identify and standardize geographic references across different archival sources.
1762 Archive Project
A digital platform that reconstructs the contents and context of the 18th-century library of San Agustin in Manila. It uses IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) to aggregate rare manuscripts and maps from institutions across the globe.
Glottolog
A comprehensive catalog of the world's languages, families, and dialects. It provides a curated genealogical classification (languoids) and extensive bibliographic metadata, making it a vital resource for identifying and standardizing the linguistic groups encountered in historical Asian and colonial contexts.
Prize Papers Portal
An open-access portal for the Prize Papers collection—documents and artifacts seized by the British from enemy ships during maritime conflicts (1652–1815). It includes 160,000 undelivered letters, journals, and cargo lists, providing an unfiltered look at global trade, daily life, and colonial networks across five continents.
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