Manuscripts are a crucial form of evidence for research into all aspects of premodern European history and culture, and there are numerous databases devoted to describing them in detail. This descriptive information, however, is typically available only in separate data silos based on incompatible data models and user interfaces. As a result, it has been difficult to study manuscripts comprehensively across these various platforms. To address this challenge, a team of manuscript scholars and computer scientists worked to create “Mapping Manuscript Migrations” (MMM), a semantic portal, and a Linked Open Data service. MMM stands as a successful proof of concept for integrating distinct manuscript datasets into a shared platform for research and discovery with the potential for future expansion. This paper will discuss the major products of the MMM project: a unified data model, a repeatable data transformation pipeline, a Linked Open Data knowledge graph, and a Semantic Web portal. It will also examine the crucial importance of an iterative process of multidisciplinary collaboration embedded throughout the project, enabling humanities researchers to shape the development of a digital platform and tools, while also enabling the same researchers to ask more sophisticated and comprehensive research questions of the aggregated data.

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将异质的前现代手稿元数据协调和发布为链接的开放数据

手稿是研究前现代欧洲历史和文化各个方面的重要证据形式，有许多数据库致力于详细描述它们。然而，这种描述性信息通常仅在基于不兼容数据模型和用户界面的单独数据孤岛中可用。因此，很难在这些不同的平台上全面研究手稿。为了应对这一挑战，一个由手稿学者和计算机科学家组成的团队致力于创建“映射手稿迁移”（MMM）、语义门户和链接开放数据服务。MMM 是将不同的手稿数据集整合到一个共享平台以进行研究和发现并具有未来扩展潜力的成功概念证明。本文将讨论 MMM 项目的主要产品：统一的数据模型、可重复的数据转换管道、链接的开放数据知识图谱和语义 Web 门户。它还将研究贯穿整个项目的多学科合作迭代过程的重要性，使人文研究人员能够塑造数字平台和工具的开发，同时也使相同的研究人员能够提出更复杂、更全面的研究问题。数据。