The contributors to this panel are jointly participating in the development of the Amsterdam Time Machine - an integrated platform to present historical information about people, places, relations, events, and objects in its spatial and temporal context, focusing on the city of Amsterdam. The web of data on the history of Amsterdam is created by systematically linking existing datasets from social and humanities research with municipal and cultural heritage data, where possible in the form of Linked Open Data. The linked data can then be organized and presented in spatial representations, such as geographical and 3D visualizations. The result is a ‘Google Earth’ for the past, which allows users to explore the city through space and time, at the level of neighbourhoods, streets and even individual houses. Recently, a first proof of concept was developed that connects linked data from the Amsterdam cultural heritage institutions and various scholarly research projects to a GIS infrastructure that provides the historical geographical and topological context for these linked datasets.

1. prof. dr. Julia NoordegraafSemantic Deep Mapping in an Integrated
Platform for Studying Historical Amsterdam

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1. Amsterdam Time Machine
2. The geolocational grid
3. Use case: a spatial approach to entertainment culture 1900

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Expansion of Amsterdam from 1600
Powered by the Amsterdam City Archive

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Time Machine approach
Scalable urban history
and linked cultural
heritage
https://virtualinteriorsproject.nl Image by Weixuan Li

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6. Julia Noordegraaf
Claartje Rasterhoff
Thomas Vermaut
Mark Raat
Hans Mol
Marieke van Erp
Kristel Doreleijers
Nicoline van der Sijs
Ivo Zandhuis
Richard Zijdeman
Vincent Baptist
Thunnis van Oort
Charlotte Vrielink

7. A Geographical Data-Infrastructure
for Historical Amsterdam
Hans Mol, Mark Raat, Thomas Vermaut

9. a new GIS
● now: 19th + early 20th C
● next: 17th + 18th C
● 52.684 proxies for location
● semantic concept +
geographical location
● knowledge graph

11. and more geo locational reference data

12. Image by Chiara Piccoli

13. Entertainment Culture in Amsterdam 1850-1930 Vincent Baptist, Julia Noordegraaf,
Thunnis van Oort, Claartje Rasterhoff,
Charlotte Vrielink

14. Entertainment (culture) matters!
❏ Existing Dutch databases on
performing arts
❏ Cinema Context (film)
❏ ONSTAGE & TIN (theatre)
❏ FELIX (music)
❏ Need for integrated research
❏ to embed in urban history
❏ to challenge high/low culture
dichotomy
❏ Aim: develop linked geospatial
approach to leisure and nightlife

15. in this small project
❏ Extend and map historical data on
leisure & nightlife 1850-1930
❏ Cinema’s
❏ Theatres
❏ Music venues
❏ Bars/restaurants/hotels
❏ Registers of night licenses
❏ Listings in address books
❏ Using shared research infrastructure
and location points
❏ Making available for reuse by LOD

16. 1870 1891 1911
Maps: Loman 1876
Publieke Werken 1909

17. 1870 1891 1911
Neighborhood A ↔ Neighborhood YY

18. Cinema locations vs population density (1920) / Neighborhood (1850)

19. Methodological and multidisciplinary strength
● Enhanced flexibility of research design
○ Scalable: macro ↔ meso ↔ micro
● ‘Space’ as historiographical and methodological factor
○ Combination of question-driven and data-driven
● Expanding research collaborations through LOD
○ druid.datalegend.net/AmsterdamTimeMachine/clariahPilot

20. everything is on the web and queryable (even in 3d…)
1851-1893
Source: Amsterdam City Archives open data
(RDF) population registers and geometries
neighbourhoods AdamLink project

21. https://amsterdamtimemachine.nl/