It was about 15 years ago that I started this website. It was during my second trimester in University. All the computer science students were given internet access. We had discovered that we could place web pages on our personal internet accounts which would show up on the World Wide Web. I don't know the exact date but it must have been towards the end of 1993 or early in 1994. So I'm celebrating 15 years of Yvette's Dutch Genealogy Homepage today! … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2008
Setting up an image bank
10 December 2008 by Leave a Comment
In 2007, I wrote a guide on how to set up image banks. The aim of the guide is to share best practices in creating online access to collections of images. The project was an initiative of the Taskforce Digital Accessibility of Archives (Taskforce Archieven) in the Netherlands. We formed a project group, consisting of image bank specialist from several archives in the Netherlands. I was involved as project manager and author of the guide. The Dutch National Archives are involved in a … [Read more...]
