Expanding Participation in Tapping the Dutch East India Company Archives: Call for participation: user questionnaire
The GLOBALISE project is developing a digital platform to make Dutch colonial-era records—specifically Dutch East India Company archives—more accessible to communities around the world. These records include material connected to South Asia, including Sri Lanka. Based in Amsterdam, the project works with around five million digitised pages and uses AI-based techniques to make 17th- and 18th-century handwritten documents searchable through keywords, a feature already available in the current beta version. Additional tools to support searching and interpretation are still under development.
As part of this work, Tara Huveneers, a master’s student working with GLOBALISE, invites participants to take part in a short, anonymous questionnaire (approximately 10–15 minutes) about engaging with Dutch colonial archives in a digital environment. The questionnaire asks about interests, experiences, and possible challenges when working with such materials. Responses will help inform the development of contextual information and research guides within the platform. What would you like to see there?
If you have some time to spare—or know someone who might be interested—participation is very welcome: …https://forms.office.com/e/
If possible, responses submitted before 2 February can be included most fully in the next phase of platform development. For any questions, please feel free to contact: tara.huveneers@
