v1.0

Golden Agents - Amsterdam Corporate Group Portraits

The Amsterdam Corporate Group Portraits dataset contains biographical information on persons depicted on institutional/corporate group portraits in the seventeenth and eighteenth century in Amsterdam. The dataset is part of the Golden Agents project.

The original data were collected by Norbert Middelkoop and published as attachment to his dissertation Schutters, gildebroeders, regenten en regentessen (2019). The Golden Agent project took his data and heavily structured these, so that they could be used in the project's infrastructure infrastructure.

We kept the original structure of the dataset, so that we separate information on:

• Corporate group portraits (visual works)
• Poorters [=Burghers] (persons)
• Regentessen [=Regents (F)] (persons)
• Regenten [=Regents (M)] (persons)
• Gildenleden [=Guild members] (persons)

For all the persons, if available, we modelled information on their name, the portrait they are depicted on, when they were a regent or churchmaster, when they were a member of the civic guards (schutterij), when they were a member of a guild, and when they were a member of the city council. Besides this, we added information on their birth and death date, and their marriages.

Through linksets (see the linkset documentation) we linked the persons to Wikidata and to among others the Amsterdam City Archives. These linksets also serve as a way to link the persons to other datasets in the Golden Agents project.

This release marks the stable version of this data at the end of the Golden Agents project (2016-2022).

Small data corrections

v0.3

Update LICENSE

Stable URIs

• Person identifiers are coming from the data['id'] column
• More informative labels with dates as years (for events)
• Changed some Role names and subclassing

First stable RDF version

No more changes to persons and their functions beyond this point.