Hi,
This might be interesting for those interested in Dutch (colonial) history: last week I
did an donation of 512 maps and images from the proceedings of the Dutch Parliament (the
so-called States
General<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:States_General_of_the_Netherlan…ds>. They
are from the period 1885-1995.
The images are in Category:Media contributed by Tweede
Kamer<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_T…er>.
Every image has geo coordinates for the map centre.
The set has some unique content, not only about the Netherlands, but also about its former
colonies Dutch East-Indies (now Indonesia) and Suriname. Themes include the Delta Works,
polders, land reclamation and the construction of roads, railways, and ports.
To foster reuse, I started assigning thematic categories to some images, for example
Eastern
Scheldt<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_Scheldt>dt>, Delta
Works<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delta_Works>ks>, Canals in
Friesland<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Canals_in_Frieslan…nd>,
IJsselmeer<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IJsselmeer> and Railway lines
in the
Netherlands<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Railway_lines_in…
Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards
Olaf Janssen
Wikipedia & open data coordinator
Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands
olaf.janssen@kb.nl<mailto:olaf.janssen@kb.nl>
+31 (0)70 3140 388
@ookgezellig
www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL<http://www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL…
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