Modelling the enslaved as historical persons: Extending the Persons in Context (PiCo) model to fit enslaved individuals

TY - CONF

T1 - Modelling the enslaved as historical persons

T2 - Digital Humanities Benelux 2025

AU - Mourits, Rick

AU - Pepping, Kay

AU - van Oort, Thunnis

AU - Konings, Pascal

AU - van Duijvenvoorde, Britt

PY - 2025/6/3

Y1 - 2025/6/3

N2 - Multiple parties in the Netherlands publish open data on persons who lived in the former Dutch colonies in the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa in collaboration with knowledge and heritage partners and citizen scientists throughout these regions and the Netherlands. As a result of these collaborations, historical person observations have been collected that can be used to reconstruct enslaved individuals as historical persons. To make these person observations and reconstructions interoperable and accessible to the general and scholarly public, the use of a clear and systematic data model is required.

AB - Multiple parties in the Netherlands publish open data on persons who lived in the former Dutch colonies in the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa in collaboration with knowledge and heritage partners and citizen scientists throughout these regions and the Netherlands. As a result of these collaborations, historical person observations have been collected that can be used to reconstruct enslaved individuals as historical persons. To make these person observations and reconstructions interoperable and accessible to the general and scholarly public, the use of a clear and systematic data model is required.

KW - slavery

KW - Linked Open Data

KW - persons in context

KW - history

KW - Vocabulary Reuse

KW - historical sources

KW - person reconstruction

U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.15586904

DO - 10.5281/zenodo.15586904

M3 - Abstract

Y2 - 3 June 2025 through 6 June 2025

ER -