A repository for sources about European colonial architecture and town

planning (c.1850–1970):Creating a digital tool for transnational

researchDr Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen

Open Access SymposiumDelft

October 23, 2014

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

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.

The main goal is to create a global network of researchers active in the field.

French Indo ChinaDutch East IndiesBritish India

ChinaKenyaLibya

IDEA & REALISATION

Delft University of Technology

• Faculty of Architecture & the Built EnvironmentHistory of Architecture & Urban Planning∙Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen

• TU Delft Library Corporate Office Information and Communication Technology / ICT DPD ∙Frits van Latum∙Paul Suijker

INFRASTRUCTURE•Repository •Website

CONTENT• Text documents books, journals, reports, minutes, etc.• Images contemporary photographs, films• Archives correspondence, reports, drawings, plans, etc. • Maps

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

PLANNING & FUNDING

• Phase 1 (2011-14)Funding Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Hague

DutchCulture centre for international cooperation, AmsterdamCOST Action European architecture beyond Europe, Brussels

Area Netherlands and former Dutch colonies

• Phase 2 (2014 and beyond)Funding Europe and former coloniesArea Europe and former colonies

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

• Build up an (inter)national network for content, IT and funding

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

• Define and execute research (and design) projects

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

• COST Action ‘European architecture beyond Europe’

Material Types

1933Villa IsolaD.W. BerrettyC.P. Wollf SchoemakerAlgemeen Ingenieurs- en Architectenbureau (A.I.A.-bureau)

Lembangweg; Jalan Setyabudi Bandunggn:1650357

AAT:300005433; 300005517 (villa)

ir C.P Wolff Schoemaker25-7-1882 Banyu Biru22-5-1949 Bandung

Koninklijke Militaire Academie (KMA), Breda

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) • Solr (indexing and searching

software)

Content

Content

CRITICAL ISSUES

• Boundaries (period, content)

• Copyrights

• Continuity •

• Funding

• Multilingualism

WORKSHOPS INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 2013)

Partners Petra Catholic University, SurabayaErasmus Huis, Jakarta Institute of Technology, Bandung Bandung Society for Heritage, BandungGadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta

Special visit National Archive of the Republic Indonesia, Jakarta

Participants 142

Guest speakeres 7

News papers 4

ARCHITECTURE

ELECTRONIC

COLLECTIONS

COLONIAL

ARCHIVESURBANISM

PLAN

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DIGITAL

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repository

built heritage

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Opening soon: http://colonialarchitecture.eu