Dataset genealogical metadata Brabant Historical Information Centre via Open Archives

Open Archives

The open data consists of metadata from 10,217,046 records of Brabant Historical Information Centre, with 25.399.917 historical person observations. The source types included population registers, births, marriages, deaths, funerals, baptisms, marriages (church). This dataset can be searched via https://www.openarchieven.nl/bhi

URI
https://www.openarchieven.nl/id/dataset_bhi (opens in new tab)
Publisher
Open Archives
genealogie@coret.org
Creator
Brabant Historical Information Centre (opens in new tab)
Part of
https://www.openarchieven.nl/id/datacatalog (opens in new tab) Browse catalog (opens in new tab)
Landing Page
https://www.openarchieven.nl/datasets/bhi (opens in new tab)
License
CC0 1.0 Universal (opens in new tab)
Spatial Coverage
https://sws.geonames.org/11669500/, https://sws.geonames.org/12494993/, https://sws.geonames.org/12494996/, https://sws.geonames.org/2745153/, https://sws.geonames.org/2747233/, https://sws.geonames.org/2749233/, https://sws.geonames.org/2749990/, https://sws.geonames.org/2750405/, https://sws.geonames.org/2758460/, https://sws.geonames.org/2758758/, https://sws.geonames.org/6544268/
Temporal Coverage
1500 – 1985
Languages
Dutch
About
https://terms.personsincontext.org/ThesaurusHistorischePersoonsgegevens/526, https://terms.personsincontext.org/ThesaurusHistorischePersoonsgegevens/548, https://terms.personsincontext.org/ThesaurusHistorischePersoonsgegevens/549, https://terms.personsincontext.org/ThesaurusHistorischePersoonsgegevens/551, https://terms.personsincontext.org/ThesaurusHistorischePersoonsgegevens/552, https://terms.personsincontext.org/ThesaurusHistorischePersoonsgegevens/553, https://terms.personsincontext.org/ThesaurusHistorischePersoonsgegevens/554
Keywords
BaptismsBirthsDeathsFuneralsGenealogyHistorical personal dataMarriagesMarriages (church)Population registers
Issued
January 17, 2024
Modified
April 18, 2026

Distributions

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Linked Data Summary

686,384,458
Triples
60
Unique predicates
60,539,867
Unique objects
100%
Literals: 0
URIs: 60,539,867

Classes

Class
Entities
openarch.nl/…f/a2a#Person
22,354,864
30%
openarch.nl/…a#RelationEP
21,434,857
29%
openarch.nl/def/a2a#Event
7,915,066
11%
openarch.nl/…f/a2a#Record
7,915,066
11%
openarch.nl/…f/a2a#Source
7,915,066
11%
openarch.nl/…ailableScans
5,196,781
7%

Registration

Registered URL
https://www.openarchieven.nl/datasets/datacatalog.jsonld (opens in new tab) Valid (opens in new tab)
Registered on
March 31, 2025 at 02:22 PM
Last read
17 hours ago
Completeness
100%