GLOBALISE - Weights and Measures in the 18th-Century Indian Ocean World
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.
- Publisher
- GLOBALISE project
- Creator
- GLOBALISE project
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0 International
- Temporal Coverage
- 1764/1771
- Languages
- nl, en
- Issued
- May 23, 2024
- Modified
- May 23, 2024
Distributions Distributions provide access to the data.
This tab file consists of conversions for weights and measures used by the VOC.
The glossary lists units of weights and measures used by the VOC, and gives definitions.
This file lists the different terms for the units in the glossary.
This file consists of conversions for weights and measures used by the VOC.
Registration
- Registered URL URL where the dataset is described.
- Registered on Date at which the URL was registered with the Dataset Register.
- July 24, 2024 at 09:04 AM
- Last read When the URL was last read by the Dataset Register.
- 21 hours ago
- Quality Rating Indicates how complete the dataset description is based on the metadata properties provided, such as title, description, license, and publisher.
- 100%