chroniclingnovelty/chronicles-datasets: Kronieken Dataset

This repository contains the (annotated) XML files of the corpus of early modern chronicles that was created in the context of the NWO project Chronicling Novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands 1500-1850, which ran from 2018 to 2024.

Creators: Judith Pollmann, Erika Kuijpers, Carolina Lenarduzzi, Theo Dekker, Alie Lassche, Roser Morante and with the help of many student assistants and volunteers, see the credits file.

Scans of the manuscripts together with the transcriptions and annotations can be viewed and searched on this website.

Notes on the individual chronicles and their authors can be found here.

For a detailed description of the corpus:

Theo Dekker, Erika Kuijpers, Alie Lassche, Carolina Lenarduzzi, Roser Morante, and Judith Pollmann. 2024. The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500-1850. In Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024), pages 243–252, St. Julians, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.