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Published October 24, 2019 | Version 1
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Scans and transcriptions of the VOC and the Haarlem notarial deeds archives

  • 1. National Archive Netherlands

Description

The National Archives of the Netherlands and the Noord-Hollands Archief started a colloboration with the Transkribus HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) platform in order to semi automatically transcribe 2 million pages of old Dutch texts. The archives are 17th and 18th century material from the Dutch East-Asia Company (VOC) and 19th century notarial deeds from the city of Haarlem.
In order to train the HTR software, human made transciptions had to be made. 

These datasets contain scans (.jpg images) with the transcriptions in ALTO xml format (word level).

The first set contains scans and transcriptions from the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) archive, it's inventory can be found here: http://www.gahetna.nl/archievenoverzicht/pdf/NL-HaNA_1.04.02.ead.pdf

Inventory numbers
The transcipts are samples of the following inventory numbers: 7528-8827

Country/place
Dutch Indies (modern day Indonesia) / Batavia (modern day Jakarta)

Language
Dutch

Number of transcriptions
2273 (split)

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The second set contains scans and transcriptions from the Notarial deeds of Haarlem, it's inventories can be found here:
https://noord-hollandsarchief.nl/bronnen/archieven?mivast=236&mizig=210&miadt=236&micode=1972&milang=nl&miview=inv2
https://noord-hollandsarchief.nl/bronnen/archieven?mivast=236&mizig=210&miadt=236&micode=1617&milang=nl&miview=inv2

Inventory numbers
The transcipts are samples of the following inventory numbers: 1617_1600 until 1617_1805 and 1972_10 until 1972_99

Country/place
The Netherlands / Haarlem

Language
Dutch and sometimes French

Number of transcriptions
1203 (spread)

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Notorial deeds Haarlem.zip

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