Dutch War Letters (1935–1950) to Digital Data

TY - JOUR

T1 - Dutch War Letters (1935–1950) to Digital Data

AU - Keijzer, Carlijn

AU - Lange, van, Milan

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - This data paper describes how in the project ‘First-Hand Accounts of War: War Letters (1935–1950) from NIOD digitised’ a dataset was created through a cooperation between archivists, historians, students, and citizen scientists. The original paper records are held by the NIOD. The digitised dataset is available through DANS Data Station Humanities and Social Sciences. The set encompasses (semi-)automated transcriptions and metadata of handwritten personal correspondences from the German Occupation of the Netherlands and the Indonesian War of Independence. Data is available on request for analysis, (re-)use, and further enrichment to GLAM and academic communities. The machine-readable transcriptions facilitate new scalable, systematic, and quantitative historical research as they enhance possibilities of applying computational methods for text mining.

AB - This data paper describes how in the project ‘First-Hand Accounts of War: War Letters (1935–1950) from NIOD digitised’ a dataset was created through a cooperation between archivists, historians, students, and citizen scientists. The original paper records are held by the NIOD. The digitised dataset is available through DANS Data Station Humanities and Social Sciences. The set encompasses (semi-)automated transcriptions and metadata of handwritten personal correspondences from the German Occupation of the Netherlands and the Indonesian War of Independence. Data is available on request for analysis, (re-)use, and further enrichment to GLAM and academic communities. The machine-readable transcriptions facilitate new scalable, systematic, and quantitative historical research as they enhance possibilities of applying computational methods for text mining.

KW - war letters

KW - egodocuments

KW - correspondence

KW - World War II

KW - colonial war

KW - Holocaust

U2 - 10.5334/johd.259

DO - 10.5334/johd.259

M3 - Article

SN - 2059-481X

VL - 11

SP - 1

EP - 6

JO - Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)

JF - Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)

M1 - 17

ER -