Events
2Mapathon: Maps as a Source for Surinamese History
Hands-on mapathon at the Bushuis / Oost-Indisch Huis in Amsterdam, where participants georeferenced historic maps, enriched Wikidata, and annotated archival sources.
Sranan Story Collective: Starting a Citizen Science Project on Surinamese Heritage
Presentation at the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) 2026 conference in Oulu, Finland, on the citizen science ambitions and methods of the Suriname Time Machine.
Scientific Articles & Book Chapters
3The Wijkregisters of Paramaribo, 1828–1847: A New Research Database on Urban Life during Slavery
Data article describing how the nineteenth-century population registers of Paramaribo were digitized and converted into a research database, with descriptive statistics for 1846.
An Invitation to a Trans-Caribbean Data Project: A Pipeline for Historical Caribbean Population Databases
Article presenting the HDSC pipeline for creating open-access historical population databases across the Caribbean, discussing workflows, data linking, and an invitation to collaborate on a trans-Caribbean scale.
Citizen Science and Participatory Engagement with a Contentious Past: The Historical Database of Suriname and the Caribbean
Book chapter exploring how citizen science offers meaningful engagement with a painful colonial past, through the case of the Historical Database of Suriname and the Caribbean (HDSC).
Scientific Presentations
4Sranan Story Collective: Starting a Citizen Science Project on Surinamese Heritage
Presentation at ECSA 2026 on how the Suriname Time Machine engages communities in citizen science around Surinamese heritage, combining georeferencing, Wikidata editing, and map annotation.
Modelling the Enslaved as Historical Persons
Academic talk on modelling enslaved people as historical persons within the PiCo framework, presented at a dedicated research event.
New Findings in the Slave Demography of Suriname
Academic presentation discussing new demographic findings from the Suriname slave registers, presented by a multi-institutional team of researchers.
Modelling the Enslaved as Historical Persons: Extending the Persons in Context (PiCo) Model to Fit Enslaved Individuals
Conference abstract presented at Digital Humanities Benelux 2025 on extending the PiCo data model to represent enslaved individuals as historical persons using Linked Open Data.
Published Data
2Plantations Surinaamse Almanakken
Dataset of plantation records transcribed from the Surinaamsche Almanak (1818–1847) and the Almanak voor de Nederlandsche West-Indische bezittingen (1856–1861), linked to Wikidata entities.
IIIF Historic Maps of Suriname
A curated IIIF collection of digitized historic maps of Suriname from the university libraries of Amsterdam and Leiden, available for georeferencing and annotation.
Published Code
2Suriname Time Machine: Citizen Science Website
Open-source Next.js website for the Suriname Time Machine project: participatory science events, interactive project gallery, annotation dashboard, and bilingual content.
IIIF Suriname: Map Collection Pipeline
Python scripts for generating and maintaining the IIIF manifest of digitized historic Suriname maps from multiple archives.
Media & Commentary
3First Suriname Workshop/Mapathon a Great Success
Internal news article on the KNAW Humanities Cluster intranet reporting on the success of the first Suriname Time Machine mapathon workshop.
A Web of Maps and Stories Brings the Past to Life
Article on the Amsterdam Humanities Hub about the Suriname Time Machine mapathon at the UvA Bushuis, where a diverse group of participants georeferenced and annotated historical maps of Suriname using open tools such as Allmaps.
Paramaribo Ward Registers from the Slavery Era Converted into Research Database
News article on curacao.nu reporting how researchers converted the Paramaribo ward registers (1828–1847) into a structured research database, making this important historical source on the population of Suriname's capital during slavery more accessible.