Digitized Images from Old Books about Africa

2500+ images extracted from Old Books (1598-1907) about Africa with the corresponding metadata.

You can browse the images in PARC (Portal for African Research Collections) : https://parc-portal.org/en/search?searchText=%22Rara-Projekt%22&searchField=search0

In the .csv file, there are links to IIIF Manifest as well as to images directly.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Identifier bab-rara-project@openglam
Title for URL of the dataset Digitized Images from Old Books about Africa
Schedule the publication of the dataset -
Issued date -
Modification date -
Conforms to -
Update interval -
Temporal coverage January 1, 1598 - December 31, 1907
Publisher Information Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Contact points Reto Ulrich
Languages Language independent
URL https://parc-portal.org/en/search?searchText=%22Rara-Projekt%22&searchField=search0
Relation -
Spatial -
Related datasets -
Documentation -
Keywords
Terms of use https://opendata.swiss/terms-of-use#terms_open
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