This project is a collaboration between Dr Abdul-Rahman and Dr Borgo (King’s College London) and Prof Dondi (University of Oxford). The project is a multidisciplinary project between computer scientists and humanities scholars, and particularly, it involves designing and building a visualization system. The student needs to have experience or be comfortable with web programming and visualization libraries such as D3.js. The project is a full-time 4-week project. *Background:* Books move extensively throughout their lives, spreading learning, ideas, and information, and changing ownership. Since 2009, the international and collaborative database Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) has been gathering data about the former ownership and use of the first books printed in the 15th century, books known as incunabula. The data, and the digital resource, make it possible to track the circulation of books, their trade routes and later collecting, across Europe and the USA, and throughout the centuries. Between 2014 and 2019 the database was substantially enhanced during the ERC-funded 15cBOOKTRADE Project, based at the University of Oxford and coordinated by Prof Dondi.

The Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database holds c.62,000 records from c.600 libraries around the world, mostly Europe and the US. Each record tracks the movement of the book, from the place and time when it was printed, to the place and time where the book is today, in a public Holding Institution. Most libraries today are made up of shards of previous libraries, which were broken up throughout the centuries because of various political, economic, or cultural reasons. In the satellite database Owners of Incunabula (OOI), some 25,000 libraries are in the process of being reconstructed. *Data:* Owners of Incunabula database (OOI) + imprint of editions (ISTC) + Provenance block (MEI) + Holding Institution (MEI) *Objective:* This project will design and construct a web-based visual analytics application visualizing the formation and dispersal from the point of view of a library (private or institutional). *Example:* https://data.cerl.org/owners/3467 Venice, Benedictines, S. Giorgio Maggiore, an important library closed down by Napoleon in 1806, their books dispersed around the world. 181 incunabula have been traced in MEI, in c.35 libraries https://data.cerl.org/mei/_search?query=data.provenance.agent.ownerId:3467 (Scroll down to the facet ‘Holding Institution’).