Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.17026/dans-z37-2db7 |
Publication Date
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2019-03-05 |
Title
| ONSTAGE |
Alternative Title
| Datasystem of Theatre in Amsterdam from the Golden Age to Today |
Other Identifier
| DANS-KNAW: easy-dataset:119214 |
Author
| F.R.E. Blom (University of Amsterdam) |
Point of Contact
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F.R.E. Blom (University of Amsterdam) |
Description
| ONSTAGE is the online data collection about Amsterdam’s first and most prominent public theatre venue: the Schouwburg. In theatre history, the Amsterdam Schouwburg has a unique stand for the complete and continuous account books, programming and administration of annual playlists, expenses and revenues which, as a most sensitive finger to the theatre’s pulse, provide access and analytical tools for the theatre’s artistic business from its foundation in 1638 until today. Launched in 2015, ONSTAGE contains the theatre’s programme per date, supplemented with its revenues. As linked data, ONSTAGE is a key instrument for performance details about any individual play in the Schouwburg. For each drama play, it holds information like the premiere date or its performance frequency per season. On a larger scale, ONSTAGE shows the plays’ histories over time and their life cycles on stage from premiere until final performance. Moreover, providing the financial revenues per performance, the ONSTAGE data system has a proxy for the Schouwburg’s occupation per performance and, thus, for the numbers of attendees.
Full description of Dataset and project in Research Data Journal |
Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
Language
| Dutch; English |
Production Date
| 2019-02-24 |
Contributor
| Data Curator : HARM Nijboer (Huygens ING)
Editor : R. van der Zalm (University of Amsterdam) |
Distributor
| University of Amsterdam |
Distribution Date
| 2019-02-24 |
Deposit Date
| 2019-02-24 |
Data Source
| Covering the Amsterdam Schouwburg’s theatre history from 1638 up to the present, ONSTAGE’s data derive from different archival sources. First, the Amsterdam City Archives hold an important part of the theatre’s early modern accountancy books. They are part of the City Orphanage Archive Section, as the theatre was owned by the Munipal Orphanage; the net profits were used to sustain the orphan children. The inventory number for the Schouwburg exploitation is: Stadsarchief Amsterdam, inv. nr. 367.A: Archief van het Burgerweeshuis: oud archief, section 1.2.3.2, numbers 425-441. In the past, large parts of these early modern data have been published in book volumes (Geesink and Oey-de Vita, 1983, and De Haas, 2001). For the time frame 1772-1814, ONSTAGE integrates similar data collected but unpublished by Bennie Pratisek (and revised by Anna de Haas). After the French period in the Netherlands, the Schouwburg was detached from the Orphanage’s supervision, becoming an autonomous cultural institution in the city. As from 1814, therefore, data derive from different sources. In her University of Amsterdam PhD thesis on the eighteenth century theatre, Hennie Ruitenbeek collected the data of performances and revenues as part of her audience rating’s research in Kijkcijfers (Ruitenbeek, 2002). Data for the time frame 1841-1871 could not be traced back in any administration and is therefore based on the Collection of programmes and playbills in the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam (http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/inventarissen/ubainv548). Partly, these printed sources include handwritten information on revenues per performance. As for the time frame of 1871 – 1938 ONSTAGE’s data derive from announcements and advertisements published in the Dutch newspapers: Algemeen Handelsblad ('Concert- en Tooneelnieuws' / 'Schouwburgen') and De Telegraaf (‘Kunstagenda’). In the performance announcements, of course, data on revenues are lacking. As from 1938, ONSTAGE draws on data from the Schouwburg archives that are kept in the Amsterdam City Archives. For the period of 1938-1944 the relevant Schouwburg archival sources are kept in the Amsterdam City Archives: Bibliotheek (15030): Toegangsnr. 15005 Inventarisnr. 1330/1332/1334; Amsterdam City Archives: 5479/69, 70, 73, 74, 76-79, 81, 82, 114, 119-121: 'Speelplannen en recettes'. And the relevant Schouwburg archives dating from after the Second World War (1945 – 2003) are kept in the Archive of the Amsterdam City Theatre (Amsterdam City Archives inventory numbers 267.A and 30037 ('Recettestaten (maandrapportages van de voorstellingen, bezoekersaantallen/inkomsten))’. Data from the most recent period (2003 -2016) is based on programmes, partly digitized, in the Archive of the Amsterdam City Theatre, which is today’s Schouwburg. |