Finished! Looks like this project is out of data at the moment!
The classifications of the largest set of artworks (previously the English set) is nearly finished. Thank you all for your contributions!!! We have now made the small (originally Dutch) set also available in English.
The Team
This crowdsourcing project is part of the project 'A new history of fishes', financed by NWO. This is a multidisciplinary project, linking the study of humanities with biology. The responsible institutions are LUCAS (Leiden University, the Netherlands) and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre (Leiden, the Netherlands).
The Team
 | dr. Anne Overduin Anne is a biologist interested in biodiversity. She is a collection collaborator at Naturalis and currently designs a database which will contain historical information about fish species. She is also the coordinator of this zooniverse project. |
 | Prof. dr. P.J. Smith Paul Smith is the project leader of the NWO project 'A new history of fishes'. He is directing a team of postcocs and promovendi, which are studying the role of ichtyology through the past centuries. As Emeritus Professor of French Literature he is connected to the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. |
 | Sophia Hendrikx Sophia Hendrikx is a PhD researcher working at the project ‘Tradition and Innovation: Conrad Gessner and Sixteenth-Century Ichthyology (1551-1602)’, a sub-project of the larger NWO-project ‘A New History of Fishes: A Long-term Approach to Fishes in Science and Culture, 1550-1880’. |
 | Didi van Trijp Didi van Trijp is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society. Her research is concerned with the study of things living under water –be it oceans, seas, rivers or streams– in eighteenth-century Europe. I look into the textual, visual and material cultures of natural history, as well as collecting practices and classification schemes. |
 | Robbert Striekwold Robbert Striekwold is a PhD student in the History of Biology at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre and the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research project concerns the history of ichthyology in the Netherlands during the 19th century. |
 | dr Florike Egmond Florike Egmond is a researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She is the author of the book "Het Visboek. De wereld volgens Adriaen Coenen (Walburg Pers, Zutphen, 2005)" |
 | Marlise Rijks Marlise Rijks is a postdoc working at the project ‘Depicting the Aquatic Fauna in Early Modern Europe’, a sub-project of the larger NWO-project ‘A New History of Fishes: A Long-term Approach to Fishes in Science and Culture, 1550-1880’. She questions the depiction of the aquatic fauna in relation to natural knowledge and the culture of collecting. |
| Others involved in the project | |
| Prof. Dr. Karl A. E. Enenkel | |
| Eric Jorink | |
| Menno Schilthuizen | |
| Martien van Oijen |
The paintings that are at the moment in this project are from the Rijksmuseum and RKD.
