The Biographical Portal of the Netherlands: Experiences in collecting and curating data from the web and elsewhere¹

Issue title: 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing – ELPUB 2012 – Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the Interplay between Culture and Technology

Guest editors: Ana BaptistaGuest Editor, Peter LindeGuest Editor, Niklas LavessonGuest Editor and Miguel A. BritoGuest Editor

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Gerbrandy, Jelle^{a; *} | Kloek, Els^b

Affiliations: [a] Gerbrandy SRL, Torino, Italy | [b] Huygens Institute for Netherlands History, Den Haag, the Netherlands

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Jelle Gerbrandy, Gerbrandy SRL, Via Cesare Battisti 15, 10125 Torino, Italy. E-mail: [email protected].

Note: [1] Paper also published in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ISBN 978-1-61499-064-2.

Abstract: The Biographical Portal aims to collect, organize and make available all biographical Information that is available about Dutch people. In this paper, we describe the design process, the choices we made, the tools we used that may useful for a larger audience and “lessons learned”: things that we feel we have done well, and things we would have done differently if we had known from the start what we do now.

Keywords: Biography, standards, cultural heritage, data aggregation

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0660

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 293-299, 2011