Its main goal is to combine data from several disparate sources about medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and to use the aggregated data to explore a range of research questions about their history and provenance.
In its own words: https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/publications/2020/burrows-et-al-mmm-white-paper.pdf, read 2026-10-29
| What receives provenance | a medieval or Renaissance manuscript and the events of its history |
| Relations carried | ownership; sale and transfer events; place; works contained |
| Carrier | RDF mapped to a unified model drawing on CIDOC CRM and FRBRoo |
| Expresses · records · tests | expressesrecordstests |
| Operations tested | none |
| What survived | not tested |
op the operator's own statement · 3p a third-party account · obs our observation · rd our reading. Hover a tag for its quote; each opens below with its source.
| Canonical name | Mapping Manuscript Migrations |
| Also known as | MMM, MMM Semantic Portal |
| Address | https://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/ |
| Operator | University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies), IRHT-CNRS, Aalto University |
| Founded | 2017 (funding period 2017–2020) |
| Kind | aggregator (linked open data) |
| Unit | a manuscript, reconciled across three source databases |
| Lifecycle | project ended, data maintained — funded 2017–2020 by the Digging into Data Challenge; the portal home is a JavaScript application, unreadable to a plain fetch op |
| Count | 217,700 manuscripts and other entities in the portal; 262,000 source records combined (as of the white paper) op |
| Data access | SPARQL endpoint on Linked Data Finland; a Sampo-UI semantic portal; a copy on Zenodo op |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 (the MMM data) op |
| Versions and dates | project: 2017–2020; read: 2026-10-29 |
| Observation | 2026-10-29: read |
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Record https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/mapping-manuscript-migrations · entity https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/mapping-manuscript-migrations#entity · the census as data
@misc{pe-mappingmanuscriptmigrati2026,
editor = {Sharks, Lee},
title = {Mapping Manuscript Migrations},
howpublished = {Provenance meta-aggregator, Provenance Erasure},
year = {2026},
note = {Compiled 2026-10-29; every field sourced and dated},
url = {https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/mapping-manuscript-migrations}
}