One of the most fascinating loners in twentieth-century Dutch poetry is Maastricht-born Pierre Kemp (1886-1967). In 1956 he was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize, followed in 1958 by the P.C. Hooft Prize. Maastricht University Library manages a large part of his personal estate. The Pierre Kemp Collection contains various types of objects, such as books (his personal library), letters, manuscripts, radio fragments, graphic work, a Liber Amicorum (a handwritten book of friends including graphic work by well-known artists), vinyl records, a red egg decorated by him with a poem in gold ink, a desk, and a record cabinet. Part of this collection has been placed in the library by the Pierre Kemp Foundation (Pierre Kemp Stichting), which aims to bring Kemp’s literary and visual heritage to the attention of a wide audience. As part of the national Connected Digital Heritage programme, the University Library aims to present the Pierre Kemp Collection to the widest possible audience in the most linked, open and enriched way possible.

The Pierre Kemp collection has been made available (CC-BY license) in multiple representations:

as presentation for humans via the website;
as Linked Open Data in machine-readable JSON-LD format or SPARQL endpoint;
as data set registration in the NDE datasetregister.