diff --git a/swh/deposit/tests/data/atom/entry-data-with-metadata-provenance.xml b/swh/deposit/tests/data/atom/entry-data-with-metadata-provenance.xml
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/deposit/tests/data/atom/entry-data-with-metadata-provenance.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
+       xmlns:schema="https://schema.org/"
+       xmlns:swh="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit">
+    <title>Awesome stuff</title>
+    <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
+    <author>ssedud</author>
+    <swh:deposit>
+      <swh:metadata-provenance>
+        <schema:url>{url}</schema:url>
+      </swh:metadata-provenance>
+    </swh:deposit>
+</entry>
diff --git a/swh/deposit/tests/test_utils.py b/swh/deposit/tests/test_utils.py
--- a/swh/deposit/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/swh/deposit/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2018-2020  The Software Heritage developers
+# Copyright (C) 2018-2022  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
@@ -196,11 +196,12 @@
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def xml_with_empty_reference():
+def xml_swh_deposit_template():
     xml_data = """<?xml version="1.0"?>
-  <entry xmlns:swh="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit">
+  <entry xmlns:swh="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit"
+         xmlns:schema="https://schema.org/">
       <swh:deposit>
-        {swh_reference}
+        {swh_deposit}
       </swh:deposit>
   </entry>
     """
@@ -216,8 +217,8 @@
         """<swh:reference><swh:object swhid="" /></swh:reference>""",
     ],
 )
-def test_parse_swh_reference_empty(xml_with_empty_reference, xml_ref):
-    xml_body = xml_with_empty_reference.format(swh_reference=xml_ref)
+def test_parse_swh_reference_empty(xml_swh_deposit_template, xml_ref):
+    xml_body = xml_swh_deposit_template.format(swh_deposit=xml_ref)
     metadata = utils.parse_xml(xml_body)
 
     assert utils.parse_swh_reference(metadata) is None
@@ -271,3 +272,32 @@
 
     with pytest.raises(ValidationError):
         utils.parse_swh_reference(metadata)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "xml_ref",
+    [
+        "",
+        "<swh:metadata-provenance></swh:metadata-provenance>",
+        "<swh:metadata-provenance><schema:url /></swh:metadata-provenance>",
+    ],
+)
+def test_parse_swh_metatada_provenance_empty(xml_swh_deposit_template, xml_ref):
+    xml_body = xml_swh_deposit_template.format(swh_deposit=xml_ref)
+    metadata = utils.parse_xml(xml_body)
+
+    assert utils.parse_swh_metadata_provenance(metadata) is None
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def xml_with_metadata_provenance(atom_dataset):
+    return atom_dataset["entry-data-with-metadata-provenance"]
+
+
+def test_parse_swh_metadata_provenance2(xml_with_metadata_provenance):
+    xml_data = xml_with_metadata_provenance.format(url="https://url.org/metadata/url")
+    metadata = utils.parse_xml(xml_data)
+
+    actual_url = utils.parse_swh_metadata_provenance(metadata)
+
+    assert actual_url == "https://url.org/metadata/url"
diff --git a/swh/deposit/utils.py b/swh/deposit/utils.py
--- a/swh/deposit/utils.py
+++ b/swh/deposit/utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2018-2020 The Software Heritage developers
+# Copyright (C) 2018-2022 The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
         "https://doi.org/10.5063/SCHEMA/CODEMETA-2.0": "codemeta",
         "http://purl.org/net/sword/terms/": "sword",
         "https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit": "swh",
+        "https://schema.org/": "schema",
     }
 
     data = xmltodict.parse(
@@ -146,6 +147,42 @@
 )
 
 
+def parse_swh_metadata_provenance(
+    metadata: Dict,
+) -> Optional[Union[QualifiedSWHID, str]]:
+    """Parse swh metadata-provenance within the metadata dict reference if found, None
+    otherwise.
+
+    .. code-block:: xml
+
+         <swh:deposit>
+           <swh:metadata-provenance>
+             <schema:url>https://url.org/metadata/url</schema:url>
+           </swh:metadata-provenance>
+         </swh:deposit>
+
+    Args:
+        metadata: result of parsing an Atom document with :func:`parse_xml`
+
+    Raises:
+        ValidationError in case of invalid xml
+
+    Returns:
+        Either the metadata provenance url if any or None otherwise
+
+    """
+
+    swh_deposit = metadata.get("swh:deposit")
+    if not swh_deposit:
+        return None
+
+    swh_metadata_provenance = swh_deposit.get("swh:metadata-provenance")
+    if not swh_metadata_provenance:
+        return None
+
+    return swh_metadata_provenance.get("schema:url")
+
+
 def parse_swh_reference(metadata: Dict,) -> Optional[Union[QualifiedSWHID, str]]:
     """Parse swh reference within the metadata dict (or origin) reference if found,
     None otherwise.