Abstract
Since it was awarded a Round 4 Trans-Atlantic Platform Digging into Data Challenge grant in 2017, the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project has been working to develop and test a methodology to link disparate datasets from Europe and North America with the aim of providing large-scale analysis and visualizations of the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
Guided by a set of research questions identified at the outset of the project, MMM developed an innovative Linked Open Data model and dataset which unifies three separate manuscript-related databases in a semantically consistent way, together with the workflows for transforming the institutional data contributions into the common structure. The dataset has been made available through a Linked Open Data service hosted by the Linked Data Finland platform and the MMM semantic portal.
The aggregated data can be queried and visualized at scales ranging from a single manuscript to a total of more than 216,000 manuscripts as a group. Visualization tools developed in the portal show how the manuscripts have traveled across time and space from their place of production to their current locations, where they continue to find new audiences.
Guided by a set of research questions identified at the outset of the project, MMM developed an innovative Linked Open Data model and dataset which unifies three separate manuscript-related databases in a semantically consistent way, together with the workflows for transforming the institutional data contributions into the common structure. The dataset has been made available through a Linked Open Data service hosted by the Linked Data Finland platform and the MMM semantic portal.
The aggregated data can be queried and visualized at scales ranging from a single manuscript to a total of more than 216,000 manuscripts as a group. Visualization tools developed in the portal show how the manuscripts have traveled across time and space from their place of production to their current locations, where they continue to find new audiences.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 131-144 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Manuscript Studies |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2021 |
| MoE publication type | B1 Non-refereed journal articles |
Funding
and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.1The work of the project has been carried out by four project partners: the University of Oxford (Oxford e-Research Centre and Bodleian Libraries), the Insti-tut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, the University of Pennsylvania (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies), and Aalto University (Semantic Computing Research Group). Each partner was funded by its respective national funding agencies: the Economic and Social Research Council (United Kingdom), the Agence nationale de la recherche (France), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (United States), and the Academy of Finland.