BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//pretalx//pretalx.com//spathum24//talk//WWYGM7 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:CET BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20001029T040000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20000326T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-spathum24-WWYGM7@pretalx.com DTSTART;TZID=CET:20240927T100000 DTEND;TZID=CET:20240927T103000 DESCRIPTION:HisGIS.nl provides a national digital infrastructure for resear ch\, policy development\, and the creation and promotion of interest in th e historic landscape and related built environment of the Netherlands. The project is based on the digitised and vectorised maps and tables of the o ldest\, so-called Napoleonic cadastre from around 1832\, which was introdu ced in large parts of Europe following French instructions. The purpose of this cadastre was to introduce a new and fair system of taxing land and b uildings. It consisted of three pillars that formed an indivisible whole: the measurement of parcels (shown on maps)\, the registration of ownership and land use (in tables)\, and a complex system of valuation of types of parcels (documented in a series of municipal reports). The HisGIS.nl proje ct is aimed at national and international (historical\, economic\, archaeo logical\, sociological\, geographical\, and ecological) researchers\, volu nteers\, interested citizens\, (local) governments and third parties devel oping (commercial) services for any of the above-mentioned groups. \n\nTh e development of the HisGIS.nl platform has taken place over several decad es and has been significantly expanded\, especially in recent years\, thro ugh the commitment and funding of (regional) governments\, volunteers\, re searchers\, and other parties. In 2019\, the project was officially handed over from the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden to the Humanities Cluster of t he Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam. Ho wever\, years of fragmented investment have had a profound impact on the p roject's underlying infrastructure. Data access is cumbersome by today's s tandards\, older files need quality improvement\, and resources for large- scale infrastructure improvements are lacking. These challenges are being addressed head-on by a new and substantial round of national investment in HisGIS.nl for the years 2023-2025\, which will allow us to make the data and platform consistent\, sustainable and well-functioning\, and to provid e a fully national infrastructure environment. At the end of this investme nt round\, we will have georeferenced all 16\,000 cadastral maps of the Ne therlands\, both urban and rural\, and provide a central access point for all vectorised parcels (estimated at around 60% of 3\,000\,000 by the end of 2025) and related registers.\n\nHere we would like to present the full scope of the HisGIS.nl project\, which in its current state is a fully fun ctional and widely used research infrastructure project\, as well as our plans for the coming years. We will focus on five key components of the pr oject: The georeferencing of the cadastral maps (Figure 1) using a new III F-based georeferencing tool from AllMaps which will be specially adapted to the specific difficulties associated with cadastral maps\; the vectoris ation of the parcels drawn on these maps using a custom-built OpenStreetMa p environment (Figure 2)\; digitising the full registers\, the Oorspronkel ijk Aanwijzende Tafels or Original Designating Tables (Figure 3)\, as well as the reports and tables associated with the valuation of the parcel cat egories\; providing a data output pipeline that allows the data to be inte roperable with other datasets and a wide range of file formats (from shape files to CSV and RDF)\; and managing a unique and bespoke citizen science platform that we have developed to work with our pool of volunteers. We wi ll also discuss why we have decided against using (semi)automatic feature extraction and transcription methods\, at least so far\, and have instead chosen to invest in better data entry tools.\n\nAs the French-style cadast re has been implemented in a virtually uniform manner across Europe\, our project infrastructure and data models can be applied to non-Dutch context s with very little additional investment. However\, our integral approach of combining all three pillars of the French cadastre (maps\, tables and v aluation documentation) in one system and data model sets HisGIS.nl apart from most other European projects using the 19th century Napoleonic cadast re (e.g.\, Michelin and Chadeyron 2020\; Département Vaucluse 2017\; Haut s-de-Seine le Département 2020\; Uhrmacher and Kass 2016–2024). The ove r-focus on only one pillar - usually only the maps\, or only the summary a ssembly maps (Michelin and Chadeyron 2020) - is most evident in the digiti sation efforts of the Napoleonic cadastre outside the Netherlands. The ar chival scans of the Napoleonic cadastre focus almost exclusively on the ma ps (‘Cartesius’\, n.d.\; FranceArchives 2024\; ‘Le Géoportail Natio nal Du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg’\, n.d.\; ‘Feuilles Cadastrales Hist oriques: Urplaeng’ 2022). Ignoring the cadastral tables and the wealth o f related documents\, however\, deprives us of essential knowledge for ful ly understanding and using the cadastre and\, we would argue\, for efficie ntly digitising cadastral data. It also drastically limits the potential u ses of the data. In our presentation we will briefly address these use cas es in the Netherlands\, which are much broader than academic use and range from commercial archaeology to policy making\, based on our experience so far.\n \nFigure 1. Cadastral map of the municipality Stad Almelo\n \nFigu re 2. The digitised Napoleonic cadastre for the region around Amsterdam (c a. 1832).\n \nFigure 3. Original Designating Table of the municipality Zij pe.\n\nBibliography\n‘Cartesius’. n.d. http://www.cartesius.be/Cartesi usPortal/#.\nDépartement Vaucluse. 2017. ‘Cadastre Napoléonien Géo-R éférencé de Vaucluse’. https://maps.vaucluse.fr/index.php/view/map/?r epository=archives&project=cadastre_georeference.\n‘Feuilles Cadastrales Historiques: Urplaeng’. 2022. Data.Public.Lu. 2022. https://data.public .lu/fr/datasets/feuilles-cadastrales-historiques/.\nFranceArchives. 2024. ‘Cadastre et Plans Numérisés’. FranceArchives. Portail National Des Archives. 2024. https://francearchives.gouv.fr/article/26287472.\nHauts-de -Seine le Département. 2020. ‘Cadastre Napoléonien (Assemblage Départ emental)’. https://opendata.hauts-de-seine.fr/explore/dataset/fr-2292005 06-cadastre-napoleonien-assemblage-departemental/information/.\n‘Le Géo portail National Du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg’. n.d. https://geoportail .lu/.\nMichelin\, Yves\, and Julien Chadeyron. 2020. ‘Crowdsourcing for Georeferencing Napoleonic Cadastre over a Wide Area: First Methodological and Practical Lessons on the Scale of the French Puy-de-Dôme Department ’. In GeoHumanities ’20\, 10–18. Seattle\, WA: ACM. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3423337.3429436.\nUhrmacher\, Martin\, and Steve Kass. 2016–2024 . ‘LUXATLAS.Lu’. https://www.luxatlas.lu. DTSTAMP:20260420T062254Z LOCATION:MG2 01.10 SUMMARY:The HisGIS 1832 Project. Digitising\, Vectorising\, and Modelling t he Napoleonic Cadastral Maps and Tables for the Netherlands (and Beyond?) - Rombert Stapel URL:https://pretalx.com/spathum24/talk/WWYGM7/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR