Webinar Colonial Collections Datahub
The Colonial Collections Datahub is a digital platform that brings together, enriches and provides insights into collections from colonial contexts. It includes heritage from Suriname, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and many other countries and areas scattered across various institutions. In this webinar you will learn more about how the datahub works, how you can contribute and how it relates to your work. You will hear about local digital heritage initiatives and together we will exchange experiences and ideas around the role these platforms can play in restitution work.
These webinars are organised in collaboration between the Heritage Academy and Consortium Colonial Collections. The webinar will be given three times to facilitate participation across different time zones and regions:
South Asian and Southeast Asian Context
African Context
Caribbean Context
Important information
This is everything you need to know about the webinars.
- Start date
- September 30th, 2025
- Costs
- Free
- Target audiences
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- (digital) heritage professionals
- (provenance/heritage) researchers
- heritage communities
- Course type
- Webinar
- Momenten
- September 30th, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM| 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Indonesia (WIB)October 2nd, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Nigeria (WAT)October 8th, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM| 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Aruba (AST)
All you need to know about the webinars
As well as seeking to address problems around accessibility of collections coming from a colonial context in the Netherlands, the datahub also aims to grow knowledge around these collections through features that allow users to add information, perspectives, and context to objects and/or collections. This webinar will introduce you to the datahub, how you can search collections and find objects, how to add your knowledge, and how to collaborate with others researchers and communities. There will also be opportunity to hear more about and to share your experience and knowledge of other similar local digital initiatives.
The datahub is still in development. Small adjustments are still being made so it works better for users. The Consortium is also interested to know more about what else would help users access and make use of the platform.
The Colonial Collections Datahub is a project of the Colonial Collections Consortium. The consortium is a partnership between five Dutch organizations with expertise in the field of colonial collections: Museum Bronbeek, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE), Rijksmuseum and Wereldmuseum.
Is this webinar for you?
This webinar is for (digital) heritage professionals and researchers in countries of origin as well as other interested community members in countries of origin. We recommend you sign up to the webinar in the region where you are based and which is most relevant to your work. If you cannot make the date and time of the webinar for your region, you are welcome to join. If you are Europe based, you are welcome to join the webinar most relevant to your work or interest.
Speakers
The moderator will be joined by:
On all dates:
- Cindy Zalm, Wereldmuseum and Consortium Colonial Collections, Project leader
- Camiel de Kom, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and Consortium Colonial Collections, Digital heritage coach
And per session:
- On 30 September: Hardiansyah from Wikimedia Indonesia and researcher Yus Broersma.
- On 2 October: Eiloghosa Obobaifo from Digital Benin and Sylvie Njobati from Regartless
- On 8 October: Peter Scholing from Biblioteca Nacional Aruba and Colleccion Aruba