The Corts Foundation funds projects to preserve photo collections, digitize old book and archive collections, and compile electronic databases of old bibliographic surveys, glossaries, subject and personal indexes, and old secondary search aids.

The Corts Foundation is also developing long-term projects, running five to ten years, with its partners in the field of preservation imaging, microfilming and development of secondary search aids online. By doing so, The Corts Foundation raises further funds from individuals, governments and businesses to develop sustainable and stable projects.

An overview of past activities
Funding the archival guide The Archives of the Dutch East India Company and the Local Institutions in Batavia (Jakarta), Brill Publ., Leiden, 2007.

Participating in a Conference ‘Archives as Collective Memory of the Nations’ on Bali, 3-4 September 2007, organized by the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI).

Project ‘Renumbering 17th and 18th century Dutch -archives’ in ANRI, re-packing and renumbering these collections (11,000 objects), October 2008 – March 2009, in co-operation with the Nationaal Archief Nederland, The Hague.

Inventory of the archive of the Protestant Church in Indonesia, 2008–2010 with a special selection of documents pertaining to the Japanese Occupation and the independence of regional church organizations, 1942-1950, in co-operation with the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Programme Cultural Heritage WW II).

Preparations for a Programme for ‘Preservation Imaging’ and ‘Public Access’ of 17th and 18th century Dutch archives in collaboration with ANRI.