Paper presented at the Archives, Access and AI Conference at the London Campus of Loughborough University on 15 January 2020.

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Durable Access to Book
Historical Data
Peter Verhaar 15 January 2020

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◻ When archives are
structured illogically,
or when datasets are
difficult to
understand, this
clearly complicates
reuse.
◻ To allow for reuse,
archives may need to
be reorganised and
restructured.
Intellectual access

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◻ Scholarly archive of
book historian Prof.
dr. Paul Hoftijzer
◻ Archive contains
descriptions of
people,
organisations and
events relevant to
Leiden book trade
during ”the long
seventeenth
century”

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Aa, Pieter Jansz van der (* Leiden 1697; † 2-8-1751
[begr. PK 31-7/7-8-1751]; w. 1719-36)
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<firstName>Pieter Jansz van der</firstName>
<lastName>Aa</lastName>
<dob>1697</dob><dod>1751</dod>
<pob>Leiden</pob>
<professional-start>1719</professional-start>
<professional-end>1736</professional-end>
<profession>boekverkoper</profession>
</person>

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Zijn/det__poss broer/nounsg Pieter/nounsg
en/conjcoord haar/det__poss zuster/nounsg
Catharina/nounsg waren/verbpastpl
getuigen/verbinf bij/prep zijn/det__poss
huwelijk/nounsg
Pieter/nounsg van/prep der/det__art Eijck/nounsg
was/verbpastsg werkzaam/adj als/conjsubo
Knecht/nounsg bij/prep Johannes/nounpl van/prep
Abkoude/nounprop ./$. Hij/pronpers was/verbpastsg
opgeleid/verbpapa door/prep Johannes/nounpl
van/prep Kerkhem/nounpl
NLP and NER

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<nonsolus:DiewertjeVanDerBoxe>
dbpedia-owl:profession
<nonsolus:printer> ;
cwrc:hasFather
<nonsolus:HuybertVanDerBoxe> ;
cwrc:hasMother
<nonsolus:AnnaVermij> ;
schema:spouse
<nonsolus:GregoriusBouwman> ;
cwrc:hasChild
<nonsolus:DenysBouwman> ;
rel:employerOf <nonsolus:DirckBornaviel> .

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Number of booksellers and bookbinders, 1600-1800

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Locations of booksellers in 1700

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Birthplaces of Leiden booksellers born before 1700

16. Uncertainty

17. Authenticity
◻ Authenticity refers to the
“quality of being genuine,
not a counterfeit, and free
from tampering” (Pearce-
Moses, 2005)
◻ The project essentially
results in a new archive

18. ◻ Projects of this
nature demand
interdisciplinary
collaboration