Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence 2013-2014/Peace Palace Library

Peace Palace Library
The library made high resolution photographs of about 1785 prints from 17th and 18th-century old books from its collection and donates these photographs to the image database Wikimedia Commons. The Wikipedian in special residence assists the library in doing so.

Address and collections
Peace Palace, Peace Palace Library Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ Den Haag tel 070 - 302 42 42 reading room Monday 13 PM -17 PM, Tuesday-Friday 10 AM -17 PM
 * Collection, a million-plus titles
 * Peace Palace centenary
 * special collections of images on peace movements and Grotius.

Wikipedia articles and images: addition, improvement and expansion wanted
Please add you suggestions, by pressing the buttons Edit, Preview and Save.
 * What offers Wikipedia at present about the Peace Palace, the Carnegie Foundation, peace movements, international law and more?
 * Are images lacking in the image database Wikimedia Commons?
 * Which subjects are missing on Wikipedia (the English, French, Dutch, German etc. versions)?
 * Suggested subjects, areas and articles:
 * 1) Famiano Strada historian, H.Jacobsen engraver

Edited articles
E.g., (w:de/en/fr/nl = on German/English/French/Dutch wikipedia)
 * 1 Abraham de Wicquefort, Anna van Saksen (1567-1613), Anna van Saksen, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, Antoon I van Lalaing, Bibliotheek van het Vredespaleis, Eedverbond der Edelen, Emanuel van Meteren, Emanuel van Meteren, Ernst Casimir,
 * 11 Francis Walsingham, Gerard Brandt, Guillaume de Lamboy, Hendrik van Brederode (1531-1568), Heinrich von Brederode, Hendrick van Brederode, Hendrik van Brederode, Henry III of France, Het Lam Gods (Gebroeders Van Eyck), Hugo Grotius,
 * 21 Hugo de Groot (rechtsgeleerde), Isny im Allgäu, Jean Barbeyrac, Jean Barbeyrac, Jean Barbeyrac, Johan Casimir van Saksen-Coburg, John the Fearless, Joseph Bergaigne, Josephus Justus Scaliger, Juan van Oostenrijk,
 * 31 Kasteel Vredenburg, Kasteel van Bourbon l'Archambault, Keizer Ferdinand II, Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, Maurits van Oranje, Nikolaj Rjorich, Oudenaarde, Peace_Palace_Library, Pietro Vidoni, Pietro Vidoni (1610-1681),
 * 41 Rebeca Matte, Silvius, Smeekschrift der Edelen, Van Karnebeekbron, Virgin Islands, Vredenburg (castle), Vredespaleis


 * added many categories on the media database Wikimedia Commons, such as w:commons:Category:H. Jacobsen N engraver, w:commons:Category:Famiano Strada N historian

Images donated to Wikimedia Commons

 * w:commons:Category:Collections of the Peace Palace Library: ~ 2060 mostly .tiff images, 50 MB each.
 * Usage counter Baglama2: 49,5 million views of pages with a donated image from the Peace Palace Library in 27 months up to 1 August 2016.
 * Peace Palace Library in list of Wikimedia Partnership

A sample of donated prints:

Links

 * Latin abbreviations in old prints
 * Dutch engraver Jacobsen at the Royal Gallery