Testing the waters: The creation of Global Privateering, an open access database for St Malo's dossiers de prise

• Tessa de Boer ^[1]
  1. [1] Leiden University, Netherlands
• Localización: International journal of maritime history, ISSN 0843-8714, Vol. 34, Nº. 4, 2022, págs. 658-674
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The relevance of privateering-related archives for maritime history and (early modern) history at large has been increasingly recognized in the past decades. This recognition has gone hand in hand with the prominent role that these archives have assumed in some of the largest projects in the digital humanities, such as the Prize Papers project, which facilitates research into these collections and reveals the multiplicity of data that they contain. This article reports on the creation of Global Privateering, a (pilot) project that is striving to create a user-friendly open access database for a set of privateering dossiers from St Malo, France. It has been a collaboration across disciplines – namely, history and information technology – as well as educational establishments, partnering universities and vocational schooling. The creation of this open access maritime database has been a positive experience for all parties involved, as the complementarity of skills and expertise has been evident, and the benefits have been mutual and multiple. This inspires further exploration of such collaborations and the further expansion of the Global Privateering platform.