This dataset is included in the NDE Dataset Register
What data are there in this dataset?
The open data consists of the metadata of 10,291,573 historical documents from Brabant Historical Information Centre, containing 25,449,700 historical personal references. The pie chart shows the number of person entries per source type.
How can the dataset be downloaded?
Harvesting (A2A/XML)
The Brabant Historical Information Centre historical document metadata dataset is provided as an OAI-PMH metadata feed. This feed is an implementation of an OAI-PMH data provider, based on OAI-PMH 2.0. The metadata is structured according to the Archives 2 All (A2A) model.
The URLs to harvests this dataset (set = bhi):
Download (A2A/XML)
The dataset can be downloaded in A2A / XML format as a compressed file (.tar.gz):
- DownloadThis file with 10,285,038 records is created on August 23, 2026, the file size is 31 GB (uncompressed) / 3 GB (compressed).
Download (linked data in 'a2a vocabulaire')
The dataset can be downloaded in N-triples format as a compressed file (.ttl.gz.):
- DownloadThis file was created on August 23, 2026 and has a file size of 7 GB (compressed).
Download (CSV)
The dataset can be downloaded in parts in CSV format as a compressed file (.csv.gz):
- DownloadFile with data of source type Population registers. This file with 1,978,008 lines was created on August 23, 2026, the file size is 944 MB (uncompressed) / 162 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type Births. This file with 1,697,787 lines was created on August 23, 2026, the file size is 1 GB (uncompressed) / 171 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type Marriages. This file with 561,410 lines was created on August 23, 2026, the file size is 486 MB (uncompressed) / 84 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type Deaths. This file with 1,804,858 lines was created on August 23, 2026, the file size is 1 GB (uncompressed) / 191 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type Funerals . This file with 549,752 lines was created on August 23, 2026, the file size is 407 MB (uncompressed) / 53 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type Baptisms. This file with 1,309,667 lines was created on August 23, 2026, the file size is 1 GB (uncompressed) / 154 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type Marriages (church). This file with 388,742 lines was created on August 23, 2026, the file size is 312 MB (uncompressed) / 46 MB (compressed).
License
This dataset is offered by Open Archives under a Creative Commons 0 license (Public Domain Dedication). This means that you can copy, modify, distribute and execute the work, even for commercial purposes, without asking permission. It is appreciated if you contact Open Archives if you use this dataset, maybe we can do even more for each other!
The dataset can contain URLs to images and images of third-party viewers, the CC0-license does not apply to those items! Check the website of the relevant archive which license is linked to that material.
For questions and comments about this dataset, please contact Open Archives.
Datasetbeschrijving in JSON-LD
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