The Biografisch Portaal (Biography Portal) is an initiative based at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam, with the aim of making biographical texts of the Netherlands more accessible. The project was started in February 2010 with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, with the goal to grant digital access to all reliable information about (deceased) people of the Netherlands from the earliest beginnings of history up to modern times. The Netherlands as a geographic term includes former colonies, and the term "people" refers both to people born in the Netherlands and its former colonies, and also to people born elsewhere but active in the Netherlands and its former colonies. , only biographical information about deceased people is included. The system used is based on the standards of the

Text Encoding Initiative The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and main ...

. Access to the Biografisch Portaal is available free through a web-based interface. The project is a cooperative undertaking by ten scientific and cultural bodies in the Netherlands with the Huygens Institute as main contact. The other bodies are: *The *The

Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie The CBG Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis ''(formerly called: Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie)'' (CBG) is the Dutch research centre for genealogical and heraldic studies. It is a non-profit foundation that has been founded on May 15, 1945, with the ...

(CBG) *The

Digital Library for Dutch Literature The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Dutch: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren or DBNL) is a website (showing the abbreviation as dbnl) about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts, second ...

(DBNL) *

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(DANS) *The

International Institute of Social History The International Institute of Social History (IISH/IISG) is one of the largest archives of labor and social history in the world. Located in Amsterdam, its one million volumes and 2,300 archival collections include the papers of major figu ...

(IISG) *The Onderzoekscentrum voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur (OGC), *The

Parlementair Documentatie Centrum The Parlementair Documentatie Centrum (PDC), in English the Parliamentary Documentation Centre, is a Dutch institute connected to Leiden University that documents parliamentary history. It is part of the Montesquieu Institute on Campus The Hague ...

(PDC) *The

Netherlands Institute for Art History The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

(RKD) Besides ongoing digital projects, Dutch biographical dictionaries originally published in book form that have been digitized and incorporated into the indexes of the Biografisch Portaal are: * The work of Abraham van der Aa, which was the first Dutch biographical dictionary * The BWN, or ''

Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland The ''Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland'' (BWN) is a Dutch biographical dictionary, in which short biographies of well-known and less well-known but still notable Dutch people are listed. The BWN is the successor to the ''Nieuw Nederlandsch ...

'' * The NNBW, or ''

Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek The ''Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek'' (''NNBW'') is a biographical reference work in the Dutch language. It has been succeeded by the '' Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland''. It was published in ten parts between 1911 and 1937 b ...

'' * The work of Johan Engelbert Elias on the Amsterdam regency known as ''Vroedschap van Amsterdam'' * The work of Barend Glasius known as ''Godgeleerd Nederland'' * The work of Roeland van Eynden and Adriaan van der Willigen, known as ''Geschiedenis der vaderlandsche schilderkunst'' * The work of

Jan van Gool Johan, or Jan van Gool (1685–1763), was a Dutch painter and writer from The Hague, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. Life Jan van Gool was a pupil of Simon van der Does and Mattheus Terwesten.

known as ''Nieuwe Schouburg'' * The work of Jacob Campo Weyerman known as '' The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses'' * The BLNP, or '' Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme'' As of November 2012 the Biografisch Portaal contained 80,206 persons in 125,592 biographies. In February 2012, a new project was started called "BiographyNed" to build an analytical tool for use with the Biografisch Portaal that will link biographies to events in time and space. The main goal of the three-year project is to formulate ‘the boundaries of the Netherlands’.

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* {{Authority control Open-access archives Dutch culture Text Encoding Initiative Historiography of the Netherlands Projects established in 2010 2010 establishments in the Netherlands Library cataloging and classification

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