Dutch Ships and Sailors

Dutch Ships and Sailors is a project that aims to provide an infrastructure for maritime historical datasets, linking correlating data through semantic web technology. It brings together datasets related to recruitment and shipping in the East-India trade (mainly 18th century) and in the shipping of the northern provinces of the Netherlands (mainly 19th century). For the northern provinces, the database contains data on the personnel recruited, the ships, and other variables (muster rolls of the northern provinces of the Netherlands).Dutch Ships and Sailors is a CLARIN IV-project, hosted by Huygens ING in collaboration with VU University Amsterdam, the International Institute of Social History and Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam.This prioject resulted in the Dutch Ships and Sailors (DSS) data cloud. This Linked Data cloud brings together four Dutch maritime historical datasets, each with its own datamodel. The data is available as five-star linked data making sharing and reuse possible. The data is integrated at a meta-level through common vocabularies and linked to generic external data sources allowing for new types of queries and analysis.The first two datasets ("Generale Zeemonsterrollen VOC" and "Noordelijke Monsterollen Databases") are modeled and converted in close collaboration with the historical researchers responsible for the source datasets and we describe them in more detail. The third ("VOC Opvarenden") and fourth ("Dutch Asiatic Shipping") datasets are conversions of previously published historical datasets and are described less elaborately. They were converted with the help of the historians. These four datasets are mapped to a "DSS interoperability layer", which describes common classes, properties and concepts. Links between datasets have been established through either this interoperability layer or through converting references in the original data into explicit links.The data is made available in RDF/turtle format, but is also live served at http://dutchshipsandsailors.nl/data or http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/dss/The five datasets of this project can be found via the links under 'relations'.

《荷兰船舶与海员》（Dutch Ships and Sailors）是一个旨在为海事历史数据集提供基础设施的项目，通过语义网技术实现关联数据的互联互通。该项目整合了与东印度贸易（主要为18世纪）以及荷兰北部省份航运（主要为19世纪）相关的招聘与航运数据集。针对荷兰北部省份，该数据库收录了招募人员、船舶及其他相关变量的数据（即荷兰北部省份船员名册）。《荷兰船舶与海员》是CLARIN 第四期项目（CLARIN IV-project），由胡金斯人文研究所（Huygens ING）联合阿姆斯特丹自由大学（VU University Amsterdam）、国际社会史研究所与阿姆斯特丹航运博物馆共同运营。本项目最终产出了《荷兰船舶与海员》（DSS）数据云。该关联数据云整合了四套荷兰海事历史数据集，每套数据集均拥有独立的数据模型。该数据以五星关联数据格式开放，便于数据共享与复用。数据通过通用词汇表在元数据层面实现整合，并与通用外部数据源建立关联，支持新型查询与分析方式。前两套数据集（"Generale Zeemonsterrollen VOC"与"Noordelijke Monsterollen Databases"）在与负责源数据集的历史研究者紧密协作下完成建模与转换，后文将对其进行详细阐述。第三套（"VOC Opvarenden"）与第四套（"Dutch Asiatic Shipping"）数据集为已公开历史数据集的转换版本，相关介绍相对精简，二者均在历史学者的协助下完成转换。上述四套数据集均映射至"DSS互操作层"，该层定义了通用的类、属性与概念。数据集之间的关联既可以通过该互操作层建立，也可通过将原始数据中的引用转换为显式链接来实现。该数据以RDF/turtle格式开放获取，同时可通过http://dutchshipsandsailors.nl/data 或 http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/dss/ 实时访问。本项目的五套数据集均可通过"关联关系"栏目下的链接获取。