1. Nomisma.org and the Future of Linked Open Numismatics
Ethan Gruber
Director of Data Science
American Numismatic Society
@ewg118

2. Some URLs Nomisma.org http://nomisma.org/ Nomisma Github
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE)
Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO)
PELLA: Coinage of Macedon
Coin Hoards (Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards)
MANTIS

3. Δηνάριον

4. Denarius
Denier
Δηνάριον

6. 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

7. Denarius as Triples
< skos:prefLabel ;
rdf:type nmo:Denomination ;
dcterms:isPartOf nm:roman_numismatics ;
nmo:hasMaterial nm:ar ;
skos:exactMatch < .
Implementing common web ontologies: SKOS, DC Terms, W3C Org, FOAF, WGS84 Geo,
CIDOC-CRM, BIO, etc.
Nomisma ontology ( properties and classes specific to the discipline: Denomination, Mint, Field of Numismatics, Manufacture Method, Monogram, etc.

8. 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

9. Defining concepts on nomisma.org
Material:
Manufacture:
Mint:
Denomination:
Authority:
Legend: “Literal”
Icononography: “Literal”

10. A coin type URI: http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.4B
Title, collection, accession number
Physical attributes
Image URLs
Findspot
Hoard:
Title, publisher
Findspot
A coin type URI:

15. Crisis of the Third Century

17. 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

19. Portable Antiquities Scheme/AFE Coin Finds

22. Expedited cataloging
Extracted dynamically from PELLA

23. The American Numismatic Society:
A Library and Archive

24. Archival Authorities Noe, Sydney P. (Sydney Philip), 1885-1969(
colleagues
Newell, Edward Theodore, (

25. https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC
EAC-CPF
Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families
Published in xEAC

26. https://github.com/ewg118/eaditor
Finding Aids
Published in EADitor
EAD – Encoded Archival Description (

27. Photographs, etc.
MODS – Metadata Object Description Schema (

28. Archival Research Notebooks
TEI – Text Encoding Initiative
Using Annotorious in an XForms backend to round trip annotations←→ TEI in OpenLayers

29. Digital Library EPUBs $$$ PDFs An academic publisher TEI PDFs
TEI Vendor
Scans

30. Published in ETDPub

31. 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

32. Extending the Numismatic LOD Cloud
skos:closeMatch
skos:exactMatch
Numismatic Linked Open Data:
Coins, Hoards, Typologies,
Digital Publications, Archives,
Authorities, Intellectual Concepts
Ancient people
SNAP:DRGN
The power of concordances

33. Bibliographic Annotations in Pelagios