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Sound Toll Registers online. To the Test

The second scholarly workshop on STR online took place in Leeuwarden on 28 and 29 October 2010: Sound Toll Registers online. To the Test.
Thirteen colleagues from seven countries explained the progress of the project and showed how STR online contributes to their current research.

• Who were the shipmasters of the Frisian village Makkum? A comparison between data from the STR and local sources (work in progress) - J.J. Koopmans (Groningen, The Netherlands)
• The Sound Toll Registers as Mirror Data for National Import-Export-Statistics – The Example of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Scotland (1660-1760) - Philipp Robinson Rössner (Leipzig, Germany)
• Ships as entities: the role of ships as economic agents, using Sound Toll Registers - Ana Sofia Ribeiro and Amélia Polónia (Porto, Portugal)
• Cross-checking the Sund database with the French Balance du Commerce - Guillaume Daudin (Lille, France)
• Baltic Shipping and Trade, 1497-1857: Research Possibilities of Sound Toll Registers Online - Erik Goebel (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Frisian shipmasters and the Dutch market for maritime transport: first results comparing STR Online with the Quotisatiekohier of 1749 - Simone Steenbeek (Groningen, The Netherlands)
• Integrating Data Bases: Conceptual models proposed to the study of the Dutch-Spanish merchant networks in the 18th century - Ana Crespo Solana (Madrid, Spain)
• Functional classification of shipmasters’ domiciles as a tool for visual analysis of the structure of Baltic shipping in the eighteenth century - Werner Scheltjens (Groningen, The Netherlands)
• The current state of STR online - Siem van der Woude (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands)
• English Prize papers, Danish Soundtoll registers and Frisian westbound shipping in Europe; a project under construction -Hanno Brand (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands)
• STR online – prospect of the users interface - George Welling (Groningen, The Netherlands)
• The Baltic trade and the local economy of Schiedam (1650-1800) - Annette de Wit (Den Helder, The Netherlands)

The participants of the STR online Workshop, 28-29 October 2010, in Tresoar, Leeuwarden

Standing, left to right:
Ana Sofia Ribeiro, Richard Keijzer, Klas Rönnbäck, Michael Serruys, Hanno Brand, Albert Meijer, Jacek Bujanowski, Jelle Jan Koopmans, Ton van Velzen, Simone Steenbeek, Cees Jan van Golen, Peter Poortvliet, George Welling, Johan Steendam, Meindert Seffinga, Erik Gøbel, Werner Scheltjens, Guillaume Daudin, Siem van der Woude, Lars Bjorn Madsen

Crouching, left to right:
Marc de Lannoy, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Marian Douma