Conveners
S27. ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES 1. DIGITAL APPROACHES TO COIN FINDS
- David Wigg-Wolf (Römisch-Germansiche Kommission)
- Marguerite Spoerri Butcher (Heberden Coin Room, Oxford / Ashmolean Museum)
S27. ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES 1. DIGITAL APPROACHES TO COIN FINDS
- David Wigg-Wolf (Römisch-Germansiche Kommission)
- Marguerite Spoerri Butcher (Heberden Coin Room, Oxford / Ashmolean Museum)
Description
Org. and chair: Marguerite Spoerri Butcher, David Wigg-Wolf
An ever increasing number of online public databases are presenting coin finds. These are national or regional find inventories recording archaeological artefacts, more specialised databases dedicated only to numismatic objects that also contain finds, or portals solely recording coin finds or hoards either at a national/regional or international level.
The existence of both national and international databases has meant that exchanges of data between projects have become more common, highlighting the advantages of using common ontologies. Interconnection of information between portals or with third party resources also allows the user to be guided towards additional information available online elsewhere.
While numismatic concepts are being provided with stable digital representations through Nomisma.org, and geographical data often referto gazetteers like Pleiades or GeoNames, increasing the interoperability between datasets, so far this is not the case of contextual information. The frameworks used by these portals also diverge, with some of them making use of Linked Open Data methodologies, while others do not have machine readable data.
This session will showcase some of the more recent coin find projects at both the regional/national and international level. This will be an opportunity to present how given projects make use of Linked Open Data concepts or unique identifiers in order to ensure interoperability of data, how contextual information is represented, what use is made of interconnectivity with other resources or the potential of using portals to present datasets from a supra-regional perspective.
CHRE (chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk) is a joint initiative of the Ashmolean Museum and the Oxford Roman Economy Project, providing digital coverage of hoards and single gold coins of all coinages in use within and outside the Roman Empire.
Our data is made available under a CC BY-NC-SA licence and all hoards come with stable permalinks. We also make use of stable digital identifiers for numismatic...
The project "Coin Finds Hub - Italy / Rinvenimenti monetali in Italia", promoted by the University of Salerno and supported by national and international bodies, is aimed at the managing and cataloguing of coin records from archaeological contexts within the Italian territory, with the aim of organizing, sharing and reusing the data.
The project involves the construction of a digital platform...
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