Nomisma.org and the Future of Linked Open Numismatics Ethan Gruber Director of Data Science American Numismatic Society gruber@numismatics.org @ewg118
Some URLs Nomisma.org http://nomisma.org/ Nomisma Github https://github.com/nomisma Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) http://numismatics.org/ocre/ Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO) http://numismatics.org/crro/ PELLA: Coinage of Macedon http://numismatics.org/pella/ Coin Hoards (Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards) http://coinhoards.org/ MANTIS http://numismatics.org/search
Δηνάριον
Denarius Denier Δηνάριον http://nomisma.org/denarius
What types of concepts are defined in Nomisma? Mints Denominations Manufacture Methods Materials Persons Corporate/Ethnic/Dynastic Entities Roles of people/corporate entities Reference Works Types of Wear Types of Finds
Denarius as Triples <http://nomisma.org/id/denarius> skos:prefLabel “Denarius”@en ; rdf:type nmo:Denomination ; dcterms:isPartOf nm:roman_numismatics ; nmo:hasMaterial nm:ar ; skos:exactMatch <http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300037266> . Implementing common web ontologies: SKOS, DC Terms, W3C Org, FOAF, WGS84 Geo, CIDOC-CRM, BIO, etc. Nomisma ontology (http://nomisma.org/ontology#): properties and classes specific to the discipline: Denomination, Mint, Field of Numismatics, Manufacture Method, Monogram, etc.
Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) I, second edition, Augustus 4B What is a coin type? Material: silver Manufacture: struck Mint: Emerita Denomination: Denarius Authority: Augustus Legend Icononography Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) I, second edition, Augustus 4B
Defining concepts on nomisma.org Material: http://nomisma.org/id/ar Manufacture: http://nomisma.org/id/struck Mint: http://nomisma.org/id/emerita Denomination: http://nomisma.org/id/denarius Authority: http://nomisma.org/id/augustus Legend: “Literal” Icononography: “Literal” http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.4B
A coin type URI: http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.4B Title, collection, accession number Physical attributes Image URLs Findspot Hoard: http://numismatics.org/chrr/id/ZAR Title, publisher Findspot A coin type URI: http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.4B http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/CGR219958 http://www.smb.museum/ikmk/object.php?id=18207658
Crisis of the Third Century
European Coin Find Network/Nomisma.org Meetings 2012, Frankfurt: Mass confusion 2013, Carnuntum: Slight confusion 2014, Basel: OCRE receives NEH grant 2015, Nieborów: CRRO, New Nomisma version released 2016, Caen: Mass implementation
Portable Antiquities Scheme/AFE Coin Finds
Expedited cataloging Extracted dynamically from PELLA
The American Numismatic Society: A Library and Archive
Archival Authorities Noe, Sydney P. (Sydney Philip), 1885-1969 (http://numismatics.org/authority/id/noe) colleagues Newell, Edward Theodore, 1886-1941 (http://numismatics.org/authority/id/newell)
https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC EAC-CPF Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ Published in xEAC https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC
https://github.com/ewg118/eaditor Finding Aids Published in EADitor https://github.com/ewg118/eaditor EAD – Encoded Archival Description (https://www.loc.gov/ead/)
Photographs, etc. MODS – Metadata Object Description Schema (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/)
Archival Research Notebooks TEI – Text Encoding Initiative Using Annotorious in an XForms backend to round trip annotations←→ TEI in OpenLayers http://annotorious.github.io/
Digital Library EPUBs $$$ PDFs An academic publisher TEI PDFs TEI Vendor Scans
Published in ETDPub https://github.com/AmericanNumismaticSociety/etdpub http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan146115
Interoperable Models SPARQL Archives Endpoint Library Authorities EAD MODS RDF Archives RDF MODS Open Annotation DC Terms, etc. Open Annotation DC Terms, etc. TEI TEI Library RDF Bio / W3C Org ontologies EAC-CPF Authorities
Extending the Numismatic LOD Cloud http://nomisma.org/id/athens skos:closeMatch http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579885 http://numismatics.org/authority/id/newell skos:exactMatch http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6x63rt8 Numismatic Linked Open Data: Coins, Hoards, Typologies, Digital Publications, Archives, Authorities, Intellectual Concepts Ancient people SNAP:DRGN The power of concordances
Bibliographic Annotations in Pelagios