This case study presents two interconnected analyses that enable the georeferenced differentiation of global movements related to shipping routes and goods, as well as colonial collection activities, through collaborative global research. The material basis includes preserved ship logbooks, journals from prize court records, and goods lists (Prize Papers Analysis 1: Shipping Routes), along with the preserved documents of two collectors of ethnological objects from the 19th century, Baudissin and Deeken. These documents comprise diary entries and reports from the Admiralty or other administrative contexts concerning their travels (Analysis 2: Provenance). By employing data science, the existing documents for Analysis 1 are initially processed automatically to facilitate annotation, searching, and historical contextualisation. The digital historical data will be analyzed, classified, and catalogued automatically based on specific parameters and entities, such as the recognition of places, times, and persons or objects.