A repository for sources about European colonial architecture and town planning (c.1850–1970): Creating a digital tool for transnational research

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A repository for sources about

European colonial architecture and town planning

(c.1850–1970):

Creating a digital tool for transnational research

Dr Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen

Open Access Symposium

Delft

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CONTEXT

• Institut national du patrimoine, Paris

‘Le patrimoine architectural des empires coloniaux Européens’ September 7-9, 2005

• COST Action IS0904, Brussels

‘European Architecture beyond Europe’ June 2011-June 2014

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To produce a broader understanding of the worldwide spread of European

architecture across empires during the nineteenth and twentieth century by focusing on its vectors, connections, semantics and materiality in a large range of geographic and linguistic contexts engaging both Western and non-Western environments.

The development of digital resources as a first step towards the building of a research infrastructure.

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French Indo China Dutch East Indies

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China Kenya

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IDEA & REALISATION

Delft University of Technology

• Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment History of Architecture & Urban Planning

∙Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen • TU Delft Library

Corporate Office Information and Communication Technology / ICT DPD ∙Frits van Latum

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INFRASTRUCTURE •Repository

•_Website CONTENT

• Text documents books, journals, reports, minutes, etc. • Images contemporary photographs, films

• Archives correspondence, reports, drawings, plans, etc. • Maps

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OBJECTIVES

•Stimulate collaboration

•Eliminate geographical, economic and linguistic barriers to access sources •Facilitate easy (digital) open access to relevant and often geographically dispersed documents/sources

•Support and enhance transnational and/or comparative studies •Support restoration and revitalisation projects

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PLANNING & FUNDING • Phase 1 (2011-14)

Funding Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Hague DutchCulture centre for international cooperation, Amsterdam

COST Action European architecture beyond Europe, Brussels Area Netherlands and former Dutch colonies

• Phase 2 (2014 and beyond)

Funding Europe and former colonies Area Europe and former colonies

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PHASE 1 (2011-2014)

• Design and build repository and website • Define search modules, key words, etc.

• Build integrated search facilities with other relevant repositories • Identify, localise, define and digitise relevant sources

• Harvest digitised sources

• Complement metadata of available digitised material

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PHASE 2 (2014 and beyond)

• Identify and localise relevant institutes and sources in Europe and beyond • Initiate and coordinate digitisation projects with European and non-European

partners

• Expand integrated search facilities with other relevant repositories • Expand (inter)national network for content, IT and funding

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PARTNERS & CROWDS

• Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum

• Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (former Netherlands Architecture Institute) • Leiden University Libraries, Leiden

• Tropenmuseum, Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Amsterdam • Atlantic World and the Dutch

• Atlas of Mutual Heritage

• Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta • Bandung Society for Heritage, Bandung • PETRA Christian University, Surabaya

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1933 Villa Isola D.W. Berretty C.P. Wollf Schoemaker

Algemeen Ingenieurs- en Architectenbureau (A.I.A.-bureau) Lembangweg; Jalan Setyabudi

Bandung gn:1650357 AAT:300005433; 300005517 (villa) ir C.P Wolff Schoemaker 25-7-1882 Banyu Biru 22-5-1949 Bandung

Koninklijke Militaire Academie (KMA), Breda

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METADATA

• Projects (buildings) • Projects (town plans) • Persons • Organisations • Images • Maps • Publications (books) • Publications (journals)

• Publications (journal issues) • Publications (journal articles)

SOFTWARE

• Drupal (website)

• Islandora (middleware) • Fedora (repository)

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CRITICAL ISSUES

• Boundaries (period, content) • Copyrights

• Continuity

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• Funding

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WORKSHOPS INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 2013) Partners Petra Catholic University, Surabaya

Erasmus Huis, Jakarta

Institute of Technology, Bandung

Bandung Society for Heritage, Bandung Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta

Special visit National Archive of the Republic Indonesia, Jakarta Participants 142

A repository for sources about European colonial architecture and town planning (c.1850–1970): Creating a digital tool for transnational research