Amsterdam Diaries Time Machine - Data

The Amsterdam Diaries Time Machine project is a public web application (https://diaries.amsterdamtimemachine.nl/) developed by the Amsterdam Time Machine at the University of Amsterdam. The project aims to make the life narratives of ordinary people in Amsterdam more accessible and to enhance the infrastructure for connecting diverse personal histories using open standards. In its first phase, the project focused on the diaries of six women who lived in Amsterdam during the Second World War.

By providing access to these enriched personal documents and the pipeline that enables further annotation and interlinking with other digital heritage resources, we aim to inspire other projects and local time machines to adopt our approach and contribute to a web of interconnected cultural data.

This dataset includes that data. All metadata associated with the diaries, including diary entries, transcriptions, and recognized entities, is modeled as Linked Open Data (RDF) using the schema.org and Web Annotation vocabularies. This structured data is integrated into the knowledge graph of the Amsterdam Time Machine, which powers the Amsterdam Diaries Time Machine website. The site is designed to present our findings to a broader audience.

The website was created by TotalDesign with financial support from the Dutch Digital Heritage Network and the Mondriaan Fonds. Its source code will be provided in a separate repository and dataset publication.