The Biographical Portal of the Netherlands: Experiences in collecting and curating data from the web and elsewhere

The Biographical Portal aims to collect, organize, and make available all biographical Information that is available about Dutch people. In this paper, we describe the design process, the choices we made, the tools we used that may useful for a larger audience, and “lessons learned”: things that we feel we have done well, and things we would have done differently if we had known from the start what we do now.