Dutch Ships and Sailors

The data is available as five-star linked data making sharing and reuse possible. The data is integrated at a meta-level through common vocabularies and linked to generic external data sources allowing for new types of queries and analysis. The first two datasets ("Generale Zeemonsterrollen VOC" and "Noordelijke Monsterollen Databases") are modeled and converted in close collaboration with the historical researchers responsible for the source datasets and we describe them in more detail.

The third ("VOC Opvarenden") and fourth ("Dutch Asiatic Shipping") datasets are conversions of previously published historical datasets and are described less elaborately. They were converted with the help of the historians. These four datasets are mapped to a "DSS interoperability layer", which describes common classes, properties and concepts.

Links between datasets have been established through either this interoperability layer or through converting references in the original data into explicit links. The data is made available in RDF/turtle format, but is also live served at dutchshipsandsailors.nl/data or semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/dss/ The five datasets of this project can be found via the links under 'relations'.