Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Use of DataThe Open Data Portal for Archieven.nl (opendata.archieven.nl) is a Netherlands-based online platform that aggregates and provides free access to open datasets from archival organisations participating in archieven.nl, the main Dutch archival discovery portal. It serves as a machine-readable open data repository for Dutch archive collections, supporting reuse by researchers, developers, and the public.
Dutch government bodies are legally required to provide open datasets, and the opendata.archieven.nl portal was established to fulfill this obligation in an organized and standardized manner for the archival sector. The platform operates under the principle that open data should be complete, contain only source data without aggregation, be freely accessible without registration, and be available in machine-readable formats with Creative Commons licensing.
The portal contains over 236,000 datasets from participating archive organisations. An open dataset may encompass an entire finding aid (such as a municipality's archive over a particular period) or detailed descriptions of specific records such as birth certificates or photograph collections. Data is published in EAD, A2A, Dublin Core, and XML formats. Datasets are refreshed continuously (EAD files daily; A2A, Dublin Core, and XML weekly) to reflect updates on archieven.nl.
The portal uses the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) standard to facilitate harvesting of datasets by third-party applications and developers. Each dataset is assigned a Creative Commons licence specifying reuse conditions. All data is freely available for download without registration, supporting both individual research and large-scale data reuse projects.
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