GLOBALISE - Weights and Measures in the 18th-Century Indian Ocean World
type: Dataset
description: This dataset provides information on weights and measures used by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The dataset is meant to be integrated into the GLOBALISE infrastructure, to serve as reference data and to facilitate query expansion in full-text searches of the archives of the VOC.This dataset contextualizes units of weight and measure which were drawn from the eighteenth-century 'Memoriën van Munten, Maaten, en Gewigten als dezelve op Batavia en op de respective Comptoiren van Indië in gebruik zijn'. To (re)use the dataset and to know more about its scope and contents, please consult the documentation and the data-envelope.The dataset consists of three different files: File 1: Glossary of weights and measures File 2: Labels for weights and measures File 3: Conversions for weights and measures. There are two file types for the conversions (xlsx and tab). The xlsx file gives a clear overview of the conversions, the tab file is principally meant for re-use.The documents in the current version of the dataset (Version 1) are dated May 2024.
language: nl
language: en
is based on: https://archief.nl/id/dataset/toegang/1.04.02
creator: GLOBALISE project
contributor: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7232-0065
contributor: Brecht Nijman
contributor: Manjusha Kuruppath
date published: 2024-05-23
date modified: 2024-05-23
version: V1
keywords: colonial history
keywords: Weights and Measures
keywords: Global history
keywords: Dutch East India Company
temporal coverage: 1764/1771
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: Conversions for weight and measures.tab
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: text/tab-separated-values
  content size: 221125
  description: This tab file consists of conversions for weights and measures used by the VOC.
distribution: Conversions for weights and measures.xlsx
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
  content size: 100111
  description: This file consists of conversions for weights and measures used by the VOC.
distribution: Data Envelope Dataset Weights and Measures.pdf
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/pdf
  content size: 169206
distribution: Documentation Dataset Weights and Measures.pdf
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: application/pdf
  content size: 203409
distribution: Glossary of weights and measures.tab
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: text/tab-separated-values
  content size: 49118
  description: The glossary lists units of weights and measures used by the VOC, and gives definitions.
distribution: Labels for weights and measures.tab
  type: DataDownload
  encoding format: text/tab-separated-values
  content size: 47354
  description: This file lists the different terms for the units in the glossary.

GLOBALISE project
type: Organization

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7232-0065
type: Person
given name: Henrike
family name: Vellinga
affiliation: Huygens Institute

Huygens Institute
type: Organization

Brecht Nijman
type: Person
given name: Brecht
family name: Nijman
affiliation: Huygens Institute

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

GLOBALISE Dataverse - IISH Data Collection
type: DataCatalog
publisher: International Institute of Social History
dataset: GLOBALISE - Weights and Measures in the 18th-Century Indian Ocean World

International Institute of Social History
type: Organization

Dutch Research Council (NWO)
type: Organization