Getting to Know GLOBALISE 3: Historical Data and Research (Persondata)

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Getting to Know GLOBALISE 3: Historical Data and Research (Persondata)

The VOC archives can feel like a sea of words without contextual information about the people mentioned in the records. This session introduces the key concepts behind the GLOBALISE Persons dataset and explores how person-based contextualization can support searching, interpretation, and research in the archive. No technical skills required!

Participants will work with established reference data to identify people in VOC transcriptions and link them to archival texts, thereby reflecting on how new knowledge can be generated from existing data. The session will conclude with a discussion of the challenges of identifying historical persons and a critical reflection on whose lives and experiences remain difficult (or impossible) to research using currently available reference data.

Period	03 Mar 2026
Event title	Colonial Pasts, New Approaches and Historiographical Futures: Explorations of GLOBALISE, the Dutch East India Company Archives and the writing of new histories
Event type	Conference
Location	Amsterdam, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International