This dataset is included in the NDE Dataset Register
What data are there in this dataset?
The open data consists of the metadata of 10,156,574 historical documents from Brabant Historical Information Centre, containing 25,186,618 historical personal references.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The Brabant Historical Information Centre historical document metadata dataset is provided as an OAI-PMH metadata feed.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 9,941,235 records is created on December 16, 2024, the file size is 29,791 GB (uncompressed) / 2,952 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 January 17, 2024 and has a file size of 6 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 json. This file with 1,977,858 lines was created on January 17, 2024, the file size is 944 MB (uncompressed) / 168 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type json. This file with 1,445,929 lines was created on January 17, 2024, the file size is 920 MB (uncompressed) / 156 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type json. This file with 516,819 lines was created on January 17, 2024, the file size is 454 MB (uncompressed) / 79 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type json. This file with 1,744,952 lines was created on January 17, 2024, the file size is 1 GB (uncompressed) / 196 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type json. This file with 538,197 lines was created on January 17, 2024, the file size is 363 MB (uncompressed) / 54 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type json. This file with 1,303,744 lines was created on January 17, 2024, the file size is 871 MB (uncompressed) / 155 MB (compressed).
- DownloadFile with data of source type json. This file with 387,567 lines was created on January 17, 2024, the file size is 278 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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