Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
Use of Data
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Open Archives (Dutch: Open Archieven) is a free online portal for searching genealogical records from the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. Developed by Bob Coret, it aggregates indexed historical records from more than 140 archives and historical societies, making over 360 million personal references searchable through a single interface.
Open Archives was created and developed by Bob Coret as a community platform to aggregate and share open historical data from Dutch and Belgian archives. The portal operates as an aggregator of open data, re-using openly licensed records from archives, researchers, and historical societies to provide a user-friendly discovery layer. It is affiliated with Genealogy Online (genealogieonline.nl) and shares a single login with several related platforms including Family Archivist, Stamboom Forum, and Stamboom Gids.
Open Archives primarily contains civil registration records, church records, and population registers, as well as many other record types including passenger lists, prisoner registers, military records, and slave registers. Notable collections include the Passenger Lists of the Holland-America Line (1900–1969), the Curaçao Slave Register (1839–1863), and materials from the National Archives of the Netherlands. The portal covers records predominantly from the Netherlands, with expanding coverage of Belgium and France. Records are linked to scans at source archives, external biographical portals, genealogical websites, and Wikipedia entries to provide rich contextual information.
All data within Open Archives is provided as open data via an API and OAI-PMH data provider, enabling developers and researchers to harvest and reuse records. The portal uses the A2A (Archive-to-Archive) XML model for its OAI-PMH metadata feed. Linked data is published using the Europeana Data Model (EDM). Open Archives has a formal partnership with FamilySearch, through which a selection of its records is available on the FamilySearch platform. The service is freely accessible to all users without registration for basic searching.