Tracking the migration of post-1500 books and merging dispersed heritage
PPD is a tool modelled on other CERL databases – MEI and HPB Provenance – designed to collect, store and share information about material evidence (such as ownership marks, bindings, reading marks) of books printed after 1501 that are related to historical or modern Poland. PPD serves two primary purposes: 1) to facilitate data integration between Polish institutions and the CERL environment and 2) to enhance the discoverability of the collected data for various audiences.
PPD is interconnected with other CERL datasets, including the Heritage of the Printed Book database (HPB), from which it derives bibliographical information on book editions, and CERL Thesaurus (CT), which provides authority files for personal and corporative records of owners, as well as geocoordinates. Additionally, PPD links with the Provenance Digital Archive (PDA), a repository for images of material evidence, where the images are stored and associated with corresponding data in PPD. It also communicates with Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) through co-bound items.