Currently the institute has more than 700 collections consisting of (digital) research data, digitized material, archival collections, printed material, handwritten questionnaires, maps and pictures. The focus is on resources relevant for the study of function, meaning and coherence of cultural expressions and resources relevant for the structural, dialectological and sociolinguistic study of language variation within the Dutch language. An overview is here https://meertens.knaw.nl/en/datasets/
MI is member of CLARIN-NL and CLARIN-ERIC. Metadata Schema is CMDI. MI usess Dublin Core Metadata. For long term digital preservation and archiving the Meertens Institute uses the services of DANS.
MI was a certified CLARIN- B Centre until 2021-03-05.
re3data.org: Meertens Instituut Collecties;
editing status 2025-08-25;
re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R35625
last accessed: 2025-08-26