CACTUS, a document management system to support the archaeological and historical research of San Juan, a plantation on Curaçao
The CACTUS document management and analysis system was developed to aid the historical and archaeological research of San Juan, a plantation on Curaçao. The main task of the CACTUS system is providing access to more than 2000 digitized documents that belong to the “Letters and Papers” collection of the second Dutch West India Company roughly dating to the period 1700–1740. The advantage of the CACTUS system is that it is possible to query the documents on a very detailed level, as all occurring names of people, places and ships are indexed and searchable in several ways. In addition, a tool ha... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | book Section |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
Schlagwörter: | 930 / Alte Geschichte / Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Archäologie / History of the ancient world to ca. 499 [T930] |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26617285 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/499/ |
The CACTUS document management and analysis system was developed to aid the historical and archaeological research of San Juan, a plantation on Curaçao. The main task of the CACTUS system is providing access to more than 2000 digitized documents that belong to the “Letters and Papers” collection of the second Dutch West India Company roughly dating to the period 1700–1740. The advantage of the CACTUS system is that it is possible to query the documents on a very detailed level, as all occurring names of people, places and ships are indexed and searchable in several ways. In addition, a tool has been developed to detect the existence of relationships between the indexed subjects.