Mapping Manuscript Migrations

Sharks, Lee

SPXI instrument · method 0.9 of 87, level 0 (Measurement): Capture Registry (longitudinal observation). An instrument of SPXI, the Semantic Packet for eXchange & Indexing; the whole practice is itemized at spxi.dev/methods.

Capture Registry › capture mapping-manuscript-migrations-aio-20261029

One record of the canonical Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), cited at https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/mapping-manuscript-migrations-aio-20261029/. the canonical Capture Registry (version 12.379) · the address page · this card in the gallery · this record as data · table of contents.

AXN:0AD1.CAPTURE — this address. Each observation below is one AXN, sealed with its analysis and measures; the identifier names the reading together with the response it reads.
AXN:0AD1.CAPTURE.🌔🍃✖️∮🌅⛳ — Google AI Overview, 2026-10-29 · sealed observation (SHA-256 03189295e05433fa…)

Machine Reception2026-10-29

Mapping Manuscript Migrations

Originator: University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies), IRHT-CNRS, Aalto University · outside the archive (out-universe) · dataset · SPXI treatment: partial

BROAD MATCH

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MAPPING MANUSCRIPT MIGRATIONS, BY NAME, ON GOOGLE'S AI OVERVIEW, SIGNED OUT, 2026-10-29: 'an international digital humanities project that unites disparate historical records to trace the origins, movements, provenance, and ownership history of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.' Scale ('over 215,000 historical manuscripts'), partners (Penn, Oxford, IRHT-CNRS, Aalto) and funding (the Trans-Atlantic Platform's Digging into Data Challenge), and the merged sources (the Schoenberg Database, Bibale, 'the Medieval Manuscripts Catalogue') as a linked open data knowledge graph, queryable through the portal and LDF.fi. Six cards: the GitHub page, the Journal of Open Humanities Data (2020), EADH, the University of San Diego, the Zenodo record of the knowledge graph, Goldsmiths Research Online.

Full record — 5,627 characters, 6 sources

Capture record

captured: 2026-10-29
surface: Google AI Overview
auth state: signed out, incognito
evidence class: paste
PER (historical scalar): 0.5
PER units retained: inst, src
citations read: 6
observation id: OBS-76da075982b8
address id: ADDR-0f9b8c5a7aa2

Reading

The innocent reading first. The Overview gives the project's aim, scale, partners, funder and the three databases it joins, and says where the data can be queried.

Findings

THE PROJECT HELD. Partners and funder are the record's; the aggregation of three databases into linked open data is its self-description. Checked 2026-10-29 against the provenance census record of the same day and the entity pages it saved.
THE COUNT. 'over 215,000' follows the San Diego card ('more than 215,000 medieval'); the record's white-paper figures are 217,700 manuscripts and other entities in the portal and 262,000 source records combined.
ONE SOURCE COARSENED. The record names the three sources as 'the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries, and Bibale'; 'the Medieval Manuscripts Catalogue' drops Oxford from the name of the Bodleian's catalogue.
WHAT IS NOT GIVEN. The project's term (funded 2017–2020; the data maintained after) and the licence (CC BY-NC 4.0) are absent; the Zenodo copy of the dataset appears as a card.

Analysis analyst prose, not machine text

An aggregator of provenance is composed with its sources and partners right and its own state left out: a reader cannot tell from the composition that the project ended in 2020. The grain is the project's own description; the record's lifecycle field carries what the composition does not.

Machine text, verbatim

CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — paste of the Overview expanded, with its source cards · complete as supplied · READ IN FULL 2026-10-29

[Google AI Overview at the query, signed out and incognito (operator defaults of 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-14), 2026-10-29. The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view, with the source cards that follow the answer); the 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted.] [QUERENT] Mapping Manuscript Migrations [SYSTEM] Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) is an international digital humanities project that unites disparate historical records to trace the origins, movements, provenance, and ownership history of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. [[1], [2]] Core Overview * Objective & Scale: Traces the global journey of over 215,000 historical manuscripts from their creation to modern collections, enabling analysis from individual manuscript lifecycles to macro-level trade and collection trends. [[1], [2], [3]] * Partners & Funding: A collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS), and Aalto University, funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform’s Digging into Data Challenge. [[1], [2]] Unified Datasets & Access The project merges records from the Schoenberg Database, Bibale, and the Medieval Manuscripts Catalogue into a Linked Open Data knowledge graph. Researchers can explore and query the data via the project's semantic portal and LDF.fi. [[1], [2], [3], [4]] If you would like, I can provide more details on: * How to use the project's semantic search portal * Specific statistics or data models used (such as CIDOC-CRM) * Background on one of the partner databases GitHub Mapping Manuscript Migrations

Sources (6) as cited, and as the copy produced them

GitHub third_party
Mapping Manuscript Migrations
About MMM Mapping Manuscript Migrations uses semantic technologies to unite records from three datasets: the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts at the Universit...
as pastedMapping Manuscript Migrations uses semantic technologies to unite records from three datasets: the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts at the Universit... Journal of Open Humanities Data
Journal of Open Humanities Data third_party
Mapping Manuscript Migrations Knowledge Graph: Data for Tracing the ...
Jun 11, 2020 — The Mapping Manuscript Migrations project (MMM) links disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and prove...
European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) third_party
Mapping Manuscript Migrations | EADH
The Mapping Manuscript Migrations project is linking disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and proven...
as pastedMapping Manuscript Migrations | EADH The Mapping Manuscript Migrations project is linking disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and proven... University of San Diego
University of San Diego third_party
Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Building and Using a Linked Open Data ...
“Mapping Manuscript Migrations” is a digital humanities project that brings together three distinct data sets about the histories of more than 215,000 medieval ...
as pastedMapping Manuscript Migrations: Building and Using a Linked Open Data ... “Mapping Manuscript Migrations” is a digital humanities project that brings together three distinct data sets about the histories of more than 215,000 medieval ... Zenodo
Zenodo third_party
Mapping Manuscript Migrations Knowledge Graph | Zenodo
Description The Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) project transformed three separate datasets into a unified knowledge graph. The source databases include - S...
as pastedMapping Manuscript Migrations Knowledge Graph | Zenodo Description The Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) project transformed three separate datasets into a unified knowledge graph. The source databases include - S... Goldsmiths Research Online Mapping Manuscript Migrations Knowledge Graph: Data for Tracing the ... Dec 21, 2022 — The Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) project transformed three separate datasets relating to the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscrip...
Goldsmiths Research Online third_party
Mapping Manuscript Migrations Knowledge Graph: Data for Tracing the ...
Dec 21, 2022 — The Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) project transformed three separate datasets relating to the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscrip...
as pastedMapping Manuscript Migrations Knowledge Graph: Data for Tracing the ... Jun 11, 2020 — The Mapping Manuscript Migrations project (MMM) links disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and prove... European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH)
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