Datasets on various types of institutions

The data collection of this project does not primarily consist of digitizing documents (via scanning) but of the processing of a range of documents, that reside in archives, primary and secondary literature. The researcher can have access to complete databases on a number of parameters right away. In some cases we also provide scans of the original documents, by way of example. The type of documents that has been be used differs from country to country: some countries have preserved for example useful surveys of guilds, in other cases the data has been drawn from a number of archival documents and published sources.

The geographic scope of the data collection varies from institution to institution. The most widely covered institution is that of the guilds, for which a key features of their development for several European countries and China have been collected. Data on commons, waterboards, beguinages and journeymen’s boxes has been collected for the Low Countries only.

Please note that many of the databases mentioned here are still under construction. You can however already consult the database description. In the course of 2011 all databases mentioned underneath will be made available. If you have comments on the content of the databases already available, please use our comments-form to let us know. If you'd like to see your own data listed here, please use the Get involved!-form.

 The datasets

Country	Specific content	Period	Description dataset / Report data collecting		Dataset	Composers& contributors
COMMONS
	Markegenoot-schappen	793-current	D	R	Go to dataset	view
	Gemene gronden
GUILDS
	Journeymen's boxes	1500-1820	D	R	Go to dataset	view
	Caisses de secours et de prévoyance	1812	D	R	Go to dataset	view
	Craft guilds	1201-1972			Go to dataset
	Craft guilds	936-19th century			Go to dataset	view
	Craft guilds	1064-on			Go to dataset	view
	Craft guilds	1112-1794			Go to dataset	view
	Craft guilds	1528-1911		R	Go to dataset	view
WATERBOARDS
	Waterboards	1100-current	D	R	Go to dataset	view
BEGUINAGES
	Beguinages	1207-1994	D			view
	Beguines	1467-2003
	Beguinages	bef. 1251-1990
	Beguines	1467-1990
	Beguinages	bef. 1233-1796
	Beguinages	1230-19th c.