The project Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea creates a portal that manages the entry, presentation, and analysis of data related to the manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Highlands. This means encoding and semantically relating descriptions of manuscripts, works, places, and persons. With a simple network of referenced entities in TEI as background architecture, the project produces data at several different levels and serves it in multiple ways, displaying the contents and the semantic relations encoded in it.