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Portret van Abraham Bredius (1855-1946), 1905, ontwikkelgelatinezilverdruk, collectie RKD

RKD start crowdsourcingproject voor Brediusaantekeningen

November 5, 2020/in General, Other news /by Chantal

 — for English, see below—

RKD start crowdsourcingproject voor Brediusaantekeningen

Dit najaar lanceert het RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis een crowdsourcingplatform om het archiefonderzoek van kunsthistoricus Abraham Bredius, beter bekend als de Brediusaantekeningen, te indexeren en online toegankelijk te maken. Dit materiaal zal bovendien deel gaan uit maken van het omvangrijke project Golden Agents van Huygens ING.

Speuren in de archieven

Vanaf de late negentiende eeuw bracht Abraham Bredius (1855-1946), Rembrandtspecialist en tot 1909 directeur van het Mauritshuis, ontelbare uren door in de (toen nog niet openbare) Nederlandse archieven. Als een van de eersten verrichtte hij diepgaand onderzoek naar kunstenaars die tussen de late zestiende en het begin van de achttiende eeuw werkzaam waren. Hij deed dat op een systematische wijze en noteerde wat hem van belang leek voor de kennis omtrent hun leven en werk. Een gedeelte van zijn vondsten verwerkte hij in publicaties, onder meer in de rubriek ‘Archiefsprokkelingen’ in het tijdschrift Oud Holland, maar veel bleef ongepubliceerd.

De Brediusaantekeningen

Bredius’ onderzoek resulteerde in tienduizenden excerpten: op kleine strookjes papier genoteerde samenvattingen van evenzovele vermeldingen uit archiefstukken. De door Bredius verzamelde gegevens vormen nog altijd een schat aan informatie over het leven en werk van Noord-Nederlandse schilders. Bovendien biedt het materiaal een indruk van wat er zoal in stads- en streekarchieven te vinden is. Tot op heden zijn fotokopieën van de zogeheten Brediusaantekeningen, verdeeld over de reeksen ‘Kunstenaars’ en ‘Steden’, op de studiezaal van het RKD te raadplegen. Maar daar komt verandering in.

Vrijwilligers gevraagd

Binnenkort zal het RKD, in samenwerking met Atlantis Crowdsourcing, een vrijwilligersplatform lanceren waarbij hulp gevraagd wordt aan iedereen die het werk van Abraham Bredius een warm hart toedraagt. Met de inzet van velen hoopt het RKD de tienduizenden excerpten die Bredius met toewijding maakte, van metadata te voorzien. Dit houdt in dat het publiek zal worden gevraagd om gegevens, zoals plaatsnamen, data, persoonsnamen en beroepen, te registreren en bovendien het aktetype vast te stellen. Vrijwilligers kunnen vanuit huis aan de slag. Na afloop van het project zullen de afbeeldingen van de afzonderlijke excerpten met de bijbehorende metadata worden overgezet in de database RKDexcerpts, zodat de Brediusaantekeningen online toegankelijk worden.

Golden Agents

De data van de Brediusaantekeningen zullen bovendien deel gaan uitmaken van het omvangrijke project ‘Golden Agents. De creatieve industrie van de Nederlandse Gouden Eeuw’ van het Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. Dit project heeft tot doel de creatieve maakindustrie van de Republiek in kaart te brengen door middel van een duurzame digitale infrastructuur. Deze infrastructuur zal de relaties en interacties tussen producenten en consumenten en tussen de verschillende bedrijfstakken van de zeventiende-eeuwse creatieve industrie laten zien. Golden Agents gaat verspreide heterogene bronnen (nieuwe en reeds bestaande) met elkaar verbinden via Linked Open Data.


RKD to start crowdsourcing project for the Bredius notes

This fall the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History is launching a crowdsourcing platform with the aim of indexing and enabling the online accessibility of art historian Abraham Bredius’ archival research, better known as the Bredius notes. This material will also be included in Huygens ING’s extensive Golden Agents project.

Delving into the archives

From the late nineteenth century, Abraham Bredius (1855-1946), Rembrandt specialist and director of the Mauritshuis until 1909, spent endless hours in the Dutch archives, which at the time were not yet publicly accessible. He was one of the first to conduct a thorough research into artists who were active between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth century. In doing so, he took a systematic approach and wrote down whatever he considered might be relevant to expanding the knowledge on their life and work. He included some of his findings in publications, such as the ‘Archiefsprokkelingen’ (Archive Gleanings) column in Oud Holland magazine, but much remained unpublished.

The Bredius notes

Bredius’ research resulted in tens of thousands of excerpts: summaries of equally numerous archive entries written on small scraps of paper. To this day, the data collected by Bredius contains a wealth of information on the lives and works of painters from the Northern Netherlands. Besides this, the material also offers a good indication of what kind of information can be found in municipal- and regional archives. To date, photocopies of the so-called Bredius notes, divided between the ‘Artists’ and ‘Cities’ series, can only be consulted at the Reading Room of the RKD. But that is about to change.

Volunteers wanted

In collaboration with Atlantis Crowdsourcing, the RKD is about to launch a volunteer platform, asking anyone with a warm appreciation for the work of Abraham Bredius to help. With these combined efforts the RKD hopes to ensure that the tens of thousands of excerpts that Bredius so painstakingly compiled, can be provided with metadata. This means the public will be asked to register data, such as place names, dates, persons and occupations, and also to determine the type of record. Volunteers can work from home. Once the project has been finished, the images of each excerpt along with its corresponding metadata will be transferred into the RKDexcerpts database, making the Bredius notes accessible online.

Golden Agents

The data of the Bredius notes will also become part of the Huygens Institute of Dutch History’s extensive project ‘Golden Agents. Creative industries of the Dutch Golden Age’. The aim of this project is to map out the creative industries of the Dutch Republic by way of a sustainable digital infrastructure. This infrastructure will show the relations and interactions between producers and consumers of creative goods, as well as those between the different branches of the seventeenth-century creative industries. Golden Agents will connect scattered heterogenous sources (both new and existing ones) through Linked Open Data.

 

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