@inproceedings{b24fdd8cfadf4a06ac7322c7bc54203b,
title = "Mapping Manuscript Migrations on the Semantic Web: A Semantic Portal and Linked Open Data Service for Premodern Manuscript Research",
abstract = "This paper presents the Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) system in use for modeling, aggregating, publishing, and studying heterogeneous, distributed premodern manuscript databases on the Semantic Web. A general “Sampo model” is applied to publishing and using linked data in Digital Humanities (DH) research and to creating the MMM system that includes a semantic portal and a Linked Open Data (LOD) service. The idea is to provide the manuscript data publishers with a novel collaborative way to enrich their contents with related data of the other providers and by reasoning. For the end user, the MMM Portal facilitates semantic faceted search and exploration of the data, integrated seamlessly with data analytic tools for solving research problems in manuscript studies. In addition, the SPARQL endpoint of the LOD service can be used with external tools for customized use in DH research and applications. The MMM services are available online, based on metadata of over 220 000 manuscripts from the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (University of Pennsylvania), the Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries, and Bibale of Institut de recherche et d{\textquoteright}histoire des textes in Paris. Evaluation of the MMM Portal suggests that the system is useful in manuscript studies and outperforms current systems online in searching, exploring, and analyzing data.",
keywords = "Digital humanities, Linked data, Manuscripts, Semantic portals",
author = "Eero Hyv{\"o}nen and Esko Ikkala and Mikko Koho and Jouni Tuominen and Toby Burrows and Lynn Ransom and Hanno Wijsman",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-88361-4_36",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030883607",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science + Business Media",
pages = "615--630",
editor = "Andreas Hotho and Eva Blomqvist and Stefan Dietze and Achille Fokoue and Ying Ding and Payam Barnaghi and Armin Haller and Mauro Dragoni and Harith Alani",
booktitle = "The Semantic Web – ISWC 2021 - 20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021, Proceedings",
address = "United States",
note = "20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021 ; Conference date: 24-10-2021 Through 28-10-2021",
}