Resources

Research Support

  • Utrecht University Library website

  • Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) website

Datasets

  • SlaveVoyages: collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. link

  • Cooper Hewitt collection: over 30 Centuries of design online, from ancient Roman marble to Pre-Columbian texttiles, Renaissance drawings, contermporary 3D-printed chars, and digital code. link

  • KU Libraries Special Collections: portraits dataset of descriptive metadata representing all the single-file documents with graphic art from the Special Collections of the KU Leuven Libraries that depict people. link

  • The Magister Dixit Collection (Leuven): 552 manuscripts of lecture notes of the Old University of Leuven (1425-1797). link

  • Getty-Knoedler Stock Books: more than 40,000 records transcribed from the 11 painting stock books and enhanced with information from the 21 paintings and watercolors sales books of M. Knoedler & Co. in New York (1872-1970). link

  • Pantheon Project: Historical Popularity Index: The Pantheon 1.0 data measures the global popularity of historical characters according to the metrics of their Wikidata pages in different languages. link

  • National Gallery of Art Open Data: some of the National Gallery of Art (Washington D. C.) database made public for exploration and educational purposes. link

Programming

  • Python webpage;

  • Pandas (Python Data Analysis package) webpage;

  • Matplotlib (Python visualization package) webpage;

  • Seaborn webpage (Python visualization package) webpage.