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Integrating Premodern Manuscript Metadata into Wikidata: A Case Study in Ontology Design and Linked Data Reuse

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|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.431 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 25, 2025
Accepted on: Nov 27, 2025
Published on: Dec 11, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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