A repository for sources about European colonial architecture

A repository for sources about European colonial architecture and town planning (c. 1850– 1970): Creating a digital tool for transnational research Dr Pauline K. M. van Roosmalen Open Access Symposium Delft October 23, 2014

CONTEXT • Institut national du patrimoine, Paris ‘Le patrimoine architectural des empires coloniaux Européens’ September 7 -9, 2005 • COST Action IS 0904, Brussels ‘European Architecture beyond Europe’ June 2011 -June 2014

To produce a broader understanding of the worldwide spread of European architecture across empires during the nineteenth and twentieth century by focusing on its vectors, connections, semantics and materiality in a large range of geographic and linguistic contexts engaging both Western and non-Western environments. The development of digital resources as a first step towards the building of a research infrastructure. The main goal is to create a global network of researchers active in the field.

British India Dutch East Indies French Indo China

Libya Kenya China

IDEA & REALISATION Delft University of Technology • Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment History of Architecture & Urban Planning ∙ Pauline K. M. van Roosmalen • TU Delft Library Corporate Office Information and Communication Technology / ICT DPD ∙ Frits van Latum ∙ Paul Suijker

INFRASTRUCTURE • Repository • Website CONTENT • Text documents • Images • Archives • Maps books, journals, reports, minutes, etc. contemporary photographs, films correspondence, reports, drawings, plans, etc.

OBJECTIVES • Stimulate collaboration • Eliminate geographical, economic and linguistic barriers to access sources • Facilitate easy (digital) open access to relevant and often geographically dispersed documents/sources • Support and enhance transnational and/or comparative studies • Support restoration and revitalisation projects

PLANNING & FUNDING • Phase 1 (2011 -14) Funding Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Hague Dutch. Culture centre for international cooperation, Amsterdam COST Action European architecture beyond Europe, Brussels Area Netherlands and former Dutch colonies • Phase 2 (2014 and beyond) Funding Europe and former colonies Area Europe and former colonies

PHASE 1 (2011 -2014) • Design and build repository and website • Define search modules, key words, etc. • Build integrated search facilities with other relevant repositories • Identify, localise, define and digitise relevant sources • Harvest digitised sources • Complement metadata of available digitised material • Build up an (inter)national network for content, IT and funding

PHASE 2 (2014 and beyond) • Identify and localise relevant institutes and sources in Europe and beyond • Initiate and coordinate digitisation projects with European and non-European partners • Expand integrated search facilities with other relevant repositories • Expand (inter)national network for content, IT and funding • Define and execute research (and design) projects

PARTNERS & CROWDS • • Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (former Netherlands Architecture Institute) Leiden University Libraries, Leiden Tropenmuseum, Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Amsterdam • Atlantic World and the Dutch • Atlas of Mutual Heritage • Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta • Bandung Society for Heritage, Bandung • PETRA Christian University, Surabaya • COST Action ‘European architecture beyond Europe’

Material Types

ir C. P Wolff Schoemaker 25 -7 -1882 Banyu Biru 22 -5 -1949 Bandung 1933 Villa Isola D. W. Berretty C. P. Wollf Schoemaker Algemeen Ingenieurs- en Architectenbureau (A. I. A. -bureau) Koninklijke Militaire Academie (KMA), Breda Lembangweg; Jalan Setyabudi Bandung gn: 1650357 AAT: 300005433; 300005517 (villa)

METADATA • • • Projects (buildings) Projects (town plans) Persons Organisations Images Maps Publications (books) Publications (journal issues) Publications (journal articles) SOFTWARE • • Drupal (website) Islandora (middleware) Fedora (repository) Solr (indexing and searching software)

Content

Content

CRITICAL ISSUES • Boundaries (period, content) • Copyrights • Continuity • • Funding • Multilingualism

WORKSHOPS INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 2013) Partners Petra Catholic University, Surabaya Erasmus Huis, Jakarta Institute of Technology, Bandung Society for Heritage, Bandung Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta Special visit National Archive of the Republic Indonesia, Jakarta Participants 142 Guest speakeres 7 News papers 4

DIGIT NI NG E L E PL global O R CT C I N AN ARCHITECTURE access AL repository COLONIAL AR CH S N O I T C E L L CO URBANISM e c r u so s IVE S built heritage

Opening soon: http: //colonialarchitecture. eu