GLOBALISE Thesaurus - Commodities
type: Dataset
description: This dataset offers subject-specific classification/hierarchisation and thesaurus of commodities shipped in the early modern Indian Ocean World. The commodities are sourced from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives. Although the dataset can be used as a standalone resource, it is principally meant to be integrated into the GLOBALISE research infrastructure, to serve as reference data for the annotation of named entities, and to be used in future query expansion. The dataset comprises 3787 concepts, of which 2294 are ‘NOT YET CLASSIFIED.’ Every concept in the dataset represents either an umbrella-category or a commodity appearing on shipping lists in the eighteenth century Indian Ocean World. It contains all instances of physical items appearing in the shipping lists of the Bookkeeper-General Batavia (https://bgb.huygens.knaw.nl/) and the Monsoon Traders Database (https://hdl.handle.net/10622/VIUUH7). To (re)use the dataset and to know more about its scope and contents, please consult the Datasheet. The documents in the current version of the dataset (Version 1) are dated October 2023.
language: nl
language: en
is based on: https://archief.nl/id/dataset/toegang/1.04.02
creator: GLOBALISE project
contributor: Kay Pepping
contributor: Person
  given name: Henrike
  family name: Vellinga
  affiliation: Huygens Institute
contributor: Manjusha Kuruppath
contributor: Leon van Wissen
contributor: Matthias van Rossum
date published: 2023-11-28
date modified: 2023-11-28
version: V1
keywords: Arts and Humanities
keywords: thesaurus
keywords: commodity
keywords: Dutch East India Company
temporal coverage: 1700/1800
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
included in data catalog: GLOBALISE Dataverse - IISH Data Collection
publisher: GLOBALISE project
provider: International Institute of Social History
funder: Dutch Research Council (NWO)
distribution: commodities.pdf
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/pdf
  content size: 2139820
distribution: commodities.trig
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/octet-stream
  content size: 3803332
distribution: datasheet.pdf
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/pdf
  content size: 260983
distribution: readme.pdf
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/pdf
  content size: 277026

GLOBALISE project
type: Organization

Kay Pepping
type: Person
given name: Kay
family name: Pepping
affiliation: Huygens Institute

Huygens Institute
type: Organization

Manjusha Kuruppath
type: Person
given name: Manjusha
family name: Kuruppath
affiliation: Huygens Institute

Leon van Wissen
type: Person
given name: Leon
family name: van Wissen
affiliation: University of Amsterdam

University of Amsterdam
type: Organization

Matthias van Rossum
type: Person
given name: Matthias
family name: van Rossum
affiliation: International Institute of Social History

International Institute of Social History
type: Organization

GLOBALISE Dataverse - IISH Data Collection
type: DataCatalog
publisher: International Institute of Social History
dataset: GLOBALISE Thesaurus - Commodities

Dutch Research Council (NWO)
type: Organization