linking roman coins: caa2012
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Linking Roman Coins:
Current Work at the American Numismatic Society
Ethan GruberWeb Services DeveloperAmerican Numismatic [email protected]: @ewg118
Ethan Gruber, Gilles Bransbourg, Sebastian Heath, Andrew Meadows
Presentation by
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http://nomisma.org/http://admin.numismatics.org/ocreThis powerpoint presentation available at: http://www.slideshare.net/ewg118/linking-roman-coins-caa2012
Introducing Roman Imperial Coinage
ric.1(2).aug.42a
volumeeditionauthoritynumber
nomisma.org(stable URIs)(XHTML+RDFa)materialdenominationauthoritymintetc...silver (http://nomisma.org/id/ar)other labels: silber, argent, etc.gold(http://nomisma.org/id/au)Rome(http://nomisma.org/id/rome)related: Pleiades Gazetteerhttp://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423025related: Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome
Numismatic Concepts as Linked Open Data
Coin-Types as Numismatic Concepts
A coin-type is a general series to which a coin belongs, as defined by typological attributes.
It consists of the following:
Dates of issue
Denomination
Legend
Manufacture type (struck for Roman coins)
Material
Mint and/or Region
Persons (authority, magistrate, artist, portraiture, etc.)
Type (iconography)
Numismatic Description Standard (NUDS)
LOD-inspired XML schema based on fields described at http://nomisma.org/nuds/numismatic_database_standard
Evolution of Encoded Archival Description for Numismatic Collections presented at CAA in 2009: numismatic ontology influenced by TEI, EAD, VRA Core, etc. with W3C xlink attributes for semantic linking
See http://wiki.numismatics.org/nuds:nuds
Example: RIC Vol. 1 (Edition 2): Augustus 42ahttp://admin.numismatics.org/ocre/display/ric.1(2).aug.42a
object type: Coin (http://nomisma.org/id/coin)denomination: Denarius (http://nomisma.org/id/denarius)material: Silver (http://nomisma.org/id/ar)date: 20-19 B.C. (ISO8601 date -0020 to -0019)authority: Augustus (http://nomisma.org/id/augustus)mint: Caesaraugusta (http://nomisma.org/id/caesaraugusta)region: Spain (http://nomisma.org/id/spain)associated physical objects (http://numismatics.org/collection/1937.158.423)
also includes obverse types and legends, unlinked
Introducing Numishare
Open source web application for creating, managing, and publishing numismatic collections. See more at: http://code.google.com/p/numishare/
Application Stack (all open source components)
Cocoon
Solr
eXist
Orbeon XForms
Metadata extracted either from NUDSor XTHML+RDFa using standardnomisma-defined propertiesOnline Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE)
Mapping findspots for a coin-type is possible, although not shown in this example
Search and Browse: Solr power
Note:
Atom feed
KML results
CSV
visualization
query map
faceted browse
Query by URI
map generated from Solr search results processed with XSLT to create KML, then rendered in OpenLayers
RIC Search Goes to 11
Numishare supports fuzzy and wildcard searches through Solr.
P?C? *TAE yields results with PACI AVGVSTAE legends
Useful for more rapid and accurate identifications in the field
Managing OCRE in the back-end: Orbeon XForms
Definition: An XForms-based web form gathers and processes XML data using an architecture that separates presentation, purpose and content.
Example of editing a record for a physical coin
Also supported: VIAF and Geonames
Most useful for non-Greek and Roman coins for which nomisma ids have not yet been created
If application language is English Library of Congress names are replied and Anglo-American Cataloging Rules are applied to places
Numishare Administration
Other Admin Features:
Create pages
Import from CSV
Basic theme and layouts
Control configurations through web form
Other Coin Form Features:
Upload images through form
Attach images through flickr APIs
Use Cases
Research tool for students, scholars, and collectors
Authoritative metadata source for other projects and collections (e.g., Portable Antiquities Scheme, OpenContext)
More efficient coin identification at archaeological excavations
Useful for big data mining and visualization
JISC Common Repository Interfaces Group (CRIG):
The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else
More information
OCRE demo: http://admin.numismatics.org/ocre
Nomisma: http://nomisma.org/
Numismatic Database Standard: nomisma.org/nuds/numismatic_database_standardhttp://nomisma.org/nuds/numismatic_database_standard
NUDS-XML: http://wiki.numismatics.org/nuds:nuds
Numishare code: http://code.google.com/p/numishare/
Numishare blog: http://numishare.blogspot.com/
XForms: http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/
Orbeon XForms processor: http://www.orbeon.com/
Apache Solr: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/