tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701802651734326942024-03-12T18:18:21.866-07:00numishareEthan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.comBlogger206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-36037279021259129302023-07-13T10:34:00.000-07:002023-07-13T10:34:35.269-07:00Corpus Nummorum integrated into Nomisma.org<p>At the European Coin Find Network / Nomisma.org meeting several weeks ago in Sofia, Bulgaria, I learned that <a href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/">Corpus Nummorum</a> had a <a href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/resources/sparql">SPARQL endpoint</a>. However, it is an endpoint that supports only the query protocol without a UI wrapper to make it more publicly usable. Sitting in the conference auditorium, I used the Nomisma <a href="http://nomisma.org/sparql/">SPARQL endpoint</a> to execute the SERVICE protocol in order to query the CN endpoint. This revealed a triplestore that contains both types and coins, almost entirely conformant to the Nomisma.org data model (there are some variations to model bibliographic references or source collections). However, federated queries are relatively slow. Upon arriving back home, I spun up a simple <a href="https://github.com/ewg118/sparql-ui">SPARQL UI</a> wrapper (which functions exactly like Nomisma), that I had originally built as an interface on top of the old defunct British Museum RDF export Matt Lincoln had squirreled away. This UI wrapper works on any SPARQL 1.1-compliant endpoint, whether it was running on my locally installed instance of Fuseki or any accessible endpoint on the web (as is the case with Corpus Nummorum).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48dP6Cn2MaDl7DDd65ekmzs-8UqFnRMM5jsjTvcnZJinTUN3U1VpPQllFYSA97n6Z6ydcu4QU78ZWYxvWCAEGTu__acdCyTw_kDSbZ7oes1fggl4G3omu8_TEPskCtAqkugW_0WvwxGPP2oq5FYlZaA-tFtLakJOxSDX6lz2n_vgUbWD3PqEyU0An/s2060/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-06%2013-45-42.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2060" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48dP6Cn2MaDl7DDd65ekmzs-8UqFnRMM5jsjTvcnZJinTUN3U1VpPQllFYSA97n6Z6ydcu4QU78ZWYxvWCAEGTu__acdCyTw_kDSbZ7oes1fggl4G3omu8_TEPskCtAqkugW_0WvwxGPP2oq5FYlZaA-tFtLakJOxSDX6lz2n_vgUbWD3PqEyU0An/w400-h276/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-06%2013-45-42.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corpus Nummorum SPARQL results in a GUI</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>After exploring the type and coin data a bit further, I created two SPARQL queries that implement CONSTRUCT to generate RDF/XML exports, one for <a href="https://gist.github.com/ewg118/72d5244c5ec2bf7bcb592b4485e0dac1">types</a> and the other for <a href="https://gist.github.com/ewg118/1fda994c8a743c0a9fe98a513e4218bf">coins</a>. I created an <a href="https://github.com/AmericanNumismaticSociety/migration_scripts/blob/master/corpus-nummorum/refactor.xsl">XSLT</a> identity transform to slightly modify the structure of the RDF I extracted from the endpoint so that it would validate in the Nomisma RDF import system. I also replaced the static image URLs from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and American Numismatic Society with IIIF service URIs.<br /></p><p>Most of the coins have images, although a significant number of examples in CN are photographs of plaster casts rather than the original object. The plaster cast photographs are modeled slightly differently in the RDF than our standard model, and I did not modify my SPARQL query to acquire these image links in the data I uploaded into Nomisma. Nor, at present, have I incorporated the plaster cast photos in the model CN developed, as the SPARQL queries for displaying images in Nomisma would have to be updated (and possibly also some code).</p><p>As far as I can tell though, the die axes, weights, and diameters for the coins represented by plaster casts measure the original metallic object, and are therefore accurate numbers to use for statistical analysis.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Enhancing Research Context within Nomisma.org</h4><p>Much like the <a href="https://numishare.blogspot.com/2023/07/greek-types-from-iris-integrated-into.html">recent integration</a> of <a href="https://greekcoinage.org/iris/">IRIS</a> types into the Nomisma.org LOD ecosytem, the upload of more than 11,000 coin types and 28,000 specimens from Corpus Nummorum fills in a sizeable gap in the context pertaining to individual Nomisma concepts related to the coinage of Thrace and the surrounding regions of Moesia Inferior, as well as Troas and Mysia in Anatolia. Most broadly, the Nomisma ID for <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/thrace">Thrace</a> is augmented with a paginated list of over 10,000 coin types, many of which are illustrated by at least one specimen, ranging from Greek types from Corpus Nummorum to Roman Imperial types in OCRE.<br /></p><p>Drilling down into narrower concepts, such as mints or authorities, reveals more refined visualizations. The <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/odrysian_thracian_kingdom">Kingdom of Odrysian Thrace</a> produced 66 types from the mid-5th to early 2nd century BC, although only about 20% are attributed to two certain mints.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_0Hmt-aVNek3U-SFfcV7Qv-0htPc0BAdbKvvNtOrkG-kc71p0yklMCepvtwPMTeUBNpWttxrwkXwRM3Ybr0KeUtZQEsZ0iYUokliDriA4TpEKpy6vg2inSjn2olO_CtGDMmlkrNSxOoS21YC3TUw16Ixy3yL44RAxVpCa3BtvOFjmySdKyl5FqUl/s2527/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-13%2010-36-18.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1841" data-original-width="2527" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_0Hmt-aVNek3U-SFfcV7Qv-0htPc0BAdbKvvNtOrkG-kc71p0yklMCepvtwPMTeUBNpWttxrwkXwRM3Ybr0KeUtZQEsZ0iYUokliDriA4TpEKpy6vg2inSjn2olO_CtGDMmlkrNSxOoS21YC3TUw16Ixy3yL44RAxVpCa3BtvOFjmySdKyl5FqUl/w400-h291/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-13%2010-36-18.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The map and types of <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/odrysian_thracian_kingdom">Odrysian Thrace</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h4><br /></h4><h4>Some Caveats</h4><p>Aside from the aforementioned lack of photographs of plaster casts, the Corpus Nummorum dataset includes some duplication of both types and coins that we should be aware about. Since the CN typology runs the gamut of coinages produced in Thrace and nearby regions throughout the duration of antiquity, there is some overlap between these types and other corpora, including <a href="http://numismatics.org/hrc">Hellenistic Royal Coinages</a> and <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/">Roman Provincial Coinage Online</a>. CN types don't like to these other URIs, or vice versa, so queries may duplicate statistics from the same object. Similarly, since the CN database records all specimens internally rather than linking to external collections, coins from Nomisma partners that are already linked to HRC types that overlap with CN have also been duplicated in the CN export. The long-term solution here is for Nomisma partners to catalog their own collections with CN type URIs and then weed these items out of the Corpus Nummorum export. The canonical URI for a coin should be published by the holding institution rather than independent research datasets.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7WiBDA-ctEtaguwKtJ8gYoUmc6ar41ZlxcZViolHqwtTdZ-WhD_DY9yuZBax3RdIcfs4QifoL_HvGPmjbPvLirAYsrBZR2Y9x-2Xg90EEkvdwJAMrkZl7EyPLZHp0UZu1Qfd_tS3rqERIgVZ7u9Xo3e4U3ITXORUBX9PYfkIzs2utoi85iGrn4cQe/s2515/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-13%2011-01-32.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="2515" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7WiBDA-ctEtaguwKtJ8gYoUmc6ar41ZlxcZViolHqwtTdZ-WhD_DY9yuZBax3RdIcfs4QifoL_HvGPmjbPvLirAYsrBZR2Y9x-2Xg90EEkvdwJAMrkZl7EyPLZHp0UZu1Qfd_tS3rqERIgVZ7u9Xo3e4U3ITXORUBX9PYfkIzs2utoi85iGrn4cQe/w400-h65/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-13%2011-01-32.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbzsTvZxgPzzZPeq1UST_RYcDAG0poVa3AwOy1_E9SsMrOgMMCK4m0ZtniUmcTRQ4s1wkPeaMdZAMFNCKZeOg7Wr-JAJGC19fM9iyoU5PLoVYq2L9E_sDDAJRTH-J-6dFpDfrKl2hUsDuQW6kUkPqJRprIFPLxXDcvsbdJcakM51UVPWZ7eMK8Scs/s2503/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-13%2011-01-23.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="2503" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbzsTvZxgPzzZPeq1UST_RYcDAG0poVa3AwOy1_E9SsMrOgMMCK4m0ZtniUmcTRQ4s1wkPeaMdZAMFNCKZeOg7Wr-JAJGC19fM9iyoU5PLoVYq2L9E_sDDAJRTH-J-6dFpDfrKl2hUsDuQW6kUkPqJRprIFPLxXDcvsbdJcakM51UVPWZ7eMK8Scs/w400-h66/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-13%2011-01-23.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duplicative types minted in <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/aenus">Aenus</a> and coins between CN and <a href="http://numismatics.org/sco/">Seleucid Coins Online</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p>There are about 500 coins from the ANS that have been given CN object URIs that are now available through Nomisma, but actually relatively few of these are duplicative of the coins the ANS has exported to Nomisma through links to HRC type URIs. However, we should incorporate CN URIs for non-Royal coinages into our own database so that we can export them directly. The same should apply for collections in Berlin's IKMK network.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-2339279088102228082023-07-12T08:27:00.001-07:002023-07-12T08:27:11.759-07:00Greek types from IRIS integrated into Nomisma<p>A few weeks ago during the Hackathon Athens at the French School, nearly 13,000 coin types from <a href="https://greekcoinage.org/iris/">IRIS</a> (IDs Recorded In Skeleton) were loaded into the <a href="http://nomisma.org">Nomisma.org</a> SPARQL endpoint. These types are now available alongside those published by the American Numismatic Society's <a href="http://numismatics.org/hrc/">Hellenistic Royal Coinages</a> project, making it possible to query and visualize data across a broader spectrum of Greek royal and civic coinages. Although the IRIS types are not as completely detailed as those from other projects (containing obverse and reverse type descriptions and legends, material, authority, mint, region, and issue dates but notably <i>not</i> denominations or portraits/deities), it is still possible to list these civic coinages in the example types for authorities and mints within the Nomisma.org interface.</p><p>See for example, the URI for the <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/achaemenid_empire">Achaemenid Empire</a>:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqWi1QrxAnOelUz3wll-qi5iZFyjOq8JqY04RYhJTMEbaTzzkgbRuK0bv64dpCUhXpQ5-PjhOgpKjutOACxNrdB8qGUrLme3dS6LitbhPbMFX-Cmb8YKC4tYYoZznSpz94tQPfgTUclBEITZpIsbEEBeV5XkUTt6lA2_H5Qtg1nRx55CSoAeKW_0w/s2523/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-12%2011-10-24.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1855" data-original-width="2523" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqWi1QrxAnOelUz3wll-qi5iZFyjOq8JqY04RYhJTMEbaTzzkgbRuK0bv64dpCUhXpQ5-PjhOgpKjutOACxNrdB8qGUrLme3dS6LitbhPbMFX-Cmb8YKC4tYYoZznSpz94tQPfgTUclBEITZpIsbEEBeV5XkUTt6lA2_H5Qtg1nRx55CSoAeKW_0w/w400-h294/Screenshot%20from%202023-07-12%2011-10-24.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Nomisma page for the Achaemenid Empire</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This is an excellent illustration of a significant body of types enhancing the research context of a political entity. Previously, this map would have shown <a href="http://coinhoards.org/">IGCH</a> coin hoards that were linked to Achaemenid rulers, but the authorities, whether dynasts themselves or satraps issuing in the name of the dynasty are linked to both mints and the Achaemenid Empire Nomisma concept. The map now displays the geographic distribution of the production of Achaemenid coinage, centered primarily in Anatolia, but also extending into the Levant and a single issue in Babylon.</p><p>There is a list of nearly 300 total types related to this political entity, ordered chronologically and linked to IRIS. The types are downloadable as CSV directly from the Nomisma SPARQL endpoint.</p><p>Eventually, the coins from the Bibliothèque nationale de France that are linked to IRIS will be merged into the exports that have been linked into other Nomisma-affiliated projects, and examples from the BnF and other institutions that begin to catalog with IRIS URIs will begin to populate the tables on Nomisma pages to illustrate the types.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-56275506154081855282023-07-06T07:24:00.002-07:002023-07-06T07:24:12.216-07:00Recapping ECFN / Nomisma in Sofia and Hackathon Athens<p></p><p>I am finally back in the office as of yesterday following two weeks in Europe for two related conferences: the <a href="https://www.bg-numismatic-readings.com/">10th joint meeting</a>
of Nomisma.org and the European Coin Find Network and Hackathon Athens,
hosted by Thomas Faucher at the French School of Athens. The former
meeting is increasingly a formal conference while the latter included
presentations of the current state of several projects which jumped off
two days of workshops and roundtable discussions. After the conclusion
of the Hackathon, I helped install Numishare on a cloud server for <a href="https://www.cealex.org/">CEAlex</a> to publish coins from archaeological excavations in Alexandria, Egypt.</p><p>My
presentation at the ECFN/Nomisma conference, "FAIR Findspots: Making
Data Reusable," is about the current Nomisma.org data model for
representing findspots and linking findspots to existing gazetteer URIs,
such as Geonames or Wikidata. I discussed interoperability through
using HTTP protocols (content negotiation) which enable external
database systems to reuse hoard/findspot data for cataloging. An example
that I made is the <a href="https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/">Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire</a>
project. This is one of the largest-scale numismatic datasets in
existence, although hoard URIs cannot be reused for cataloging in the
sense that machine-readable data cannot be extracted from CHRE in order
to power geographic visualizations (in contrast to coinhoards.org).
Making CHRE more reusable and interoperable would radically transform
the research value of other, related projects, such as <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre">Online Coins of the Roman Empire</a>.
I am hoping with further technical guidance, the IT staff at Oxford can
implement standardized data exports from the CHRE database to enhance
external projects.</p><p>A PDF of my presentation is available at <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8120871">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8120871</a>, and the presentation can be viewed at the 6 hour 39 minute mark of the livestream on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w41xXo5rsKM#6h38m57s">YouTube</a>.</p><p>In
Athens, I presented a general introduction to Nomisma.org and conducted
a live demo of using OpenRefine to normalize some Roman imperial
coinage data from the Getty museum, demonstrating the Nomisma.org and
OCRE reconciliation APIs. The intention wasn't to teach participants the
ins and outs of using OpenRefine (which can't be done in 45 minutes),
but to illustrate the sorts of tasks that can be semi-automated in
preparing data for integration into Nomisma.org.</p><p>The demo
presupposes that the coins are already online. We did discuss how to
start from scratch. There's no easy answer to this; data still need to
be inputted in spreadsheets or exported from excavation databases (for
example, Microsoft Access or FileMaker) into CSV, normalized, and then
imported into Numishare or the <a href="https://dedalo.dev/">Dedalo platform</a>.
The coin finds of Sardinia are published in Dedalo, while Federico
Carbone of the University of Salerno showed the Coin Finds Hub of Italy,
which is presented in Numishare. In either case, IT staff are often
necessary to deploy these databases on web servers and/or handle the
transformation and upload of data. There's no magic bullet in publishing
excavation coins online without some level of technical support. We did
discuss implementing a simple spreadsheet mapping tool into NUDS that
could be uploaded in Numishare.</p>I expect both the Coin Finds Hub
of Italy (which includes the excavations of Paestum, Pompeii, and
others) and the Alexandrian coins to be available online later in the
fall and integrated (at least to a small degree) to type portals such as
<a href="http://greekcoinage.org/iris/">IRIS</a>, <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre">OCRE</a>, or <a href="http://numismatics.org/pco">PCO</a>.Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-80940164218383933602023-04-18T11:06:00.002-07:002023-04-18T11:06:28.839-07:00About 900 Ptolemaic and Seleucid coins from the Netherlands National Numismatic Collection added<p>Finally, after two years on the back-burner, I have been able to process spreadsheets sent to me by Paul Belien at the <a href="https://www.dnb.nl/en/payments/special-money-the-national-numismatic-collection/">National Numismatic Museum</a> of De Nederlandsche Bank. These spreadsheets were of DNB's Seleucid and Ptolemaic coinage, with references to Hoover's <i>Seleucid Coins</i> and Ptolemaic types from Svoronos' 1904 volume, <i>Ta nomismata tou kratous ton Ptolemaion</i>. More than 600 coins from DNB have been added into <a href="http://numismatics.org/sco/">Seleucid Coins Online</a> and more than 250 have been added to <a href="http://numismatics.org/pco/">Ptolemaic Coins Online</a>, representing approximately half of DNB's Ptolemaic collection, since only the first half of the Ptolemaic Empire has so far been published to PCO. The DNB is presently the third-largest contributor of Seleucid coins, behind the American Numismatic Society and Bibliotheque nationale de France.</p><p>A few Seleucid coins have findspots of Caesarea (in Israel), perhaps from excavations. Interestingly one Ptolemaic coin, <a href="http://numismatics.org/pco/id/cpe.1_1.892">CPE 892</a>, a silver stater minted in Alexandria of Ptolemy IV, was found in Arnhem, Netherlands.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTdj6VWYo1oD2u0i7aMmh7OBtYq30y8bzpNyLWS7WnAbMbpCgOOblmZ8QS7cLPyiDLu7y8oiwbL0oRvdD3WppaTIRizg8NTmrlTW8G81XkJ8ikdI9dO3zQtvMjxbGv0EMNdUISeY0mXuL7Ibvk32FcIlIYSDpWsc5T35ANSDoUm_zGt0QvC6X_zQ/s2422/Screenshot%20from%202023-04-18%2012-14-03.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1672" data-original-width="2422" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTdj6VWYo1oD2u0i7aMmh7OBtYq30y8bzpNyLWS7WnAbMbpCgOOblmZ8QS7cLPyiDLu7y8oiwbL0oRvdD3WppaTIRizg8NTmrlTW8G81XkJ8ikdI9dO3zQtvMjxbGv0EMNdUISeY0mXuL7Ibvk32FcIlIYSDpWsc5T35ANSDoUm_zGt0QvC6X_zQ/w400-h276/Screenshot%20from%202023-04-18%2012-14-03.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://nnc.dnb.nl/dnb-nnc-ontsluiting-frontend/#/collectie/object/1960-0180">DNB 1960-0180</a>, found in Arnhem<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-19226304299171995582023-04-14T08:03:00.001-07:002023-04-14T08:03:25.748-07:00Over 1,000 coins from the Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren added to OCRE<p>This is several months late, but in January, more than 1,000 coins from the <a href="https://www.galloromeinsmuseum.be/en/homepage">Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren</a> were added to <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/">Online Coins of the Roman Empire</a>. A large number of these coins have findspots, which have propagated into the mapping functions through the OCRE user interfaces.</p><p>What's particularly notable of this collection joining the Nomisma.org consortium is a successful technical test of the Nomisma RDF import back-end's findspot reconciliation workflow. The technical team at the museum wrote a dynamic transformation into the Nomisma RDF model that conforms to our current CIDOC-CRM inspired findspot structure. Their gazetteer system of choice is Geonames.org, and these Geonames URIs are reconciled to Wikidata.org ones upon ingestion into the Nomisma SPARQL endpoint.</p><p> </p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHk5xB7MeaN6_6Ap7oz319NF-6S1xbyMbhYMrLqJYpRxZF4P62YBrImALq53jTX6T8v7feK0j0x83CRlw6I1L8fUzLL2L2pxpU5DxkOJpDp8V1Y2fy9XEGx6sY78lxnZpfEkJa2FOb2Qrjw-5n5ZjCB0z_lb0DFXQHruM3ZynnYF1M6TscP59fag/s2426/Screenshot%20from%202023-04-14%2010-58-18.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1297" data-original-width="2426" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHk5xB7MeaN6_6Ap7oz319NF-6S1xbyMbhYMrLqJYpRxZF4P62YBrImALq53jTX6T8v7feK0j0x83CRlw6I1L8fUzLL2L2pxpU5DxkOJpDp8V1Y2fy9XEGx6sY78lxnZpfEkJa2FOb2Qrjw-5n5ZjCB0z_lb0DFXQHruM3ZynnYF1M6TscP59fag/w400-h214/Screenshot%20from%202023-04-14%2010-58-18.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An example of <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.287">Augustus 287</a> with a findspot of Tongeren, Belgium</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>Although this is not a unique example, since many Iron Age British coins from the British Museum or Portable Antiquities Scheme with findspots have been uploaded into Nomisma and made accessible through <a href="https://iacb.arch.ox.ac.uk/">Iron Age Coins in Britain</a>, these imported Iron Age datasets were cleaned and normalized by myself in OpenRefine and stored on our web server as static RDF files. The Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren is therefore the first external partner to adopt the findspot model through a dynamically generated export, which enabled the testing of Geonames->Wikidata reconciliation upon ingestion.</p><p>Many other collections that <i>may</i> have individual findspots associated with coins have not updated their findspot RDF model accordingly.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-45261094827929878292023-04-13T07:07:00.001-07:002023-04-13T07:07:53.495-07:001,400 British Museum Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins added to BIGR<p>Simon Glenn has recently completed the cataloging and photography of the collection of Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins in the British Museum (and these updates have propagated to the online collection). This is one of the largest collections of this genre of coins in the world, numbering a little over 1,400 specimens. At present, there are now approximately 5,400 total objects linked to the types and subtypes in the NEH-AHRC funded <a href="https://numismatics.org/bigr/">Bactrian and Indo-Greek Rulers</a> (BIGR) project.</p><p>With a concordance spreadsheet of the British Museum's PRN database IDs and BIGR coin type URIs, I was able to use OpenRefine to extract data from the BM's not-publicly-documented JSON API to parse out weights, diameters, axes, image URLs, and even findspots. Although none of these 1,400 coins include a reference to published hoards in the Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards <a href="http://coinhoards.org/">database</a>, about 60 do have findspots listed in the BM metadata. These place names (fewer than ten distinct places in total) were parsed from the BM and reconciled against Wikidata.org entity URIs. The resulting data from OpenRefine were exported into the Nomisma.org RDF model and uploaded into the Nomisma SPARQL endpoint yesterday afternoon. As part of this upload process, the Nomisma import back-end extracted preferred labels, coordinates, and geographic hierarchy for each of the Wikidata findspots linked to the British Museum coins.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilceNThRW50jxbxHFVpeTxLiym0UAt6f0mb-laYNfCx6oHoH64jf2u5ftedotV71du_dY0TlzeeIgEA-mtZNFaMKDWwNQgvMPJ7c2rex8WBuFH2CqE3jMzFF-8S5V-WxcZxZVy3CrwgfiLDRnMuw8ivYgkv0geM4evD1283AhDWZLym6nUnrsotA/s2441/Screenshot%20from%202023-04-12%2016-12-32.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1431" data-original-width="2441" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilceNThRW50jxbxHFVpeTxLiym0UAt6f0mb-laYNfCx6oHoH64jf2u5ftedotV71du_dY0TlzeeIgEA-mtZNFaMKDWwNQgvMPJ7c2rex8WBuFH2CqE3jMzFF-8S5V-WxcZxZVy3CrwgfiLDRnMuw8ivYgkv0geM4evD1283AhDWZLym6nUnrsotA/w400-h235/Screenshot%20from%202023-04-12%2016-12-32.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Euthydemus I 11.1 with one findspot of Bagram, Afghanistan<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>Since we extract the geographic hierarchy for findspots from Wikidata and import these places into the Nomisma SPARQL endpoint, it is therefore possible to query all coins found within Afghanistan, regardless of whether the place is Kabul or Bagram. For example:</p><code><pre>SELECT ?coin WHERE {
?coin nmo:hasFindspot/crm:P7_took_place_at/crm:P89_falls_within+<br /><http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q889>
}</pre></code>
<p> </p><p>where <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q889">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q889</a> is the entity URI for the country of Afghanistan.</p><p>These finds, of course, propagate into the maps on Nomisma.org itself, for example, the page for <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/euthydemus_i_bactria">Euthydemus I</a> now lists individual findspots for Bukhara and Bagram. </p><p></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-64977190607964406632022-10-04T07:33:00.007-07:002022-10-04T07:33:39.585-07:00The ANS and Oxford University launches Bactrian Indo-Greek Rulers (BIGR) <p>Although it has been announced informally on Twitter, our official press release was issued during the INC conference in mid-September to coincide with a paper presented by Simon Glenn and Gunnar Dumke in the digital futures of Hellenistic coinages session. This typology includes 531 types and many additional subtypes, linked to more than 4,000 total specimens from three major collections. The photographic coverage of the parent types is nearly complete, and these typologies have already been integrated into the Hellenistic Royal Coinages umbrella site, backing Bactrian and Indo-Greek coinages available through the same interfaces as Seleucid, Ptolemaic, etc.<br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p><strong>The ANS and Oxford University launches Bactrian Indo-Greek Rulers (BIGR)</strong></p>
<p>The American Numismatic Society (ANS) and the Centre for the Study of
Ancient Documents at Oxford University are pleased to announce the
launch of Bactrian Indo-Greek Rulers (BIGR, <a href="https://numismatics.org/bigr">numismatics.org/bigr</a>), a new
online typology and research tool for ancient Graeco-Bactrian and
Indo-Greek coinage. BIGR is a component of Hellenistic Royal Coinages
(<a href="http://numismatics.org/hrc">numismatics.org/hrc</a>) and has been funded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH) as a two-year joint ANS-Oxford University project.
The award comes through the New Directions in Digital Scholarship in
Cultural Institutions program that partners the NEH with the United
Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) intended to fund
trans-Atlantic co-operative projects. At the ANS, Dr. Peter van Alfen
and Ethan Gruber have worked with their partners Prof. Andrew Meadows
and Dr. Simon Glenn at Oxford University, who are funded by the AHRC,
along with Dr. Gunnar Dumke at Martin-Luther-Universität
Halle-Wittenberg in Germany, Prof. Gul Rahim Khan at the University of
Peshawar, and Dr. Asma Ibrahim at the State Bank of Pakistan. </p><span></span><p>For many of the rulers of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek
kingdoms, which existed between c. 250 BCE and the beginning of the
first century CE and covered areas of modern Afghanistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and India, coins are often the only
surviving evidence of their existence. Formed in the wake of Alexander
the Great’s incursion into the region, these kingdoms remain some of the
least understood and most understudied political and social entities of
the ancient world. Indeed, only eight of these kings are known from
literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, while over 40 can be
identified on coins alone, an astonishing disparity in source material
that underscores the importance of the numismatic evidence for our
understanding of these early rulers and their interactions with those
they ruled.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of these coins exist today, dispersed in
collections, both public and private, across the globe, not just in
Europe, the UK and US, but, rather importantly, in Afghanistan, Pakistan
and India as well. With standard reference works out of print and only
existing in French and English, it is difficult for scholars, curators
in cultural institutions holding these coins, and law enforcement
agencies tasked with the combatting of the illegal trade in antiquities,
to engage with the material at a number of different levels. Lacking,
in many cases, basic and accurate typological information describing
where, when, and who produced the coins, the potential of these
collections to serve as historical resources and points of reference
remains currently locked. BIGR aims to resolve current cataloguing,
identification and collection accessibility problems by providing a
multilingual, freely accessible, and technologically sophisticated
Linked Open Data web-based portal that offers a new, up-to-date typology
of the coins. This new tool also allows access to the images and data
of thousands of coins, initially incorporating over 4,000 coins from the
collections of the ANS, Ashmolean Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de
France, and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.</p>
<p>“BIGR marks a milestone in the study of the ancient coinages from
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India,” said ANS Executive Director Dr.
Gilles Bransbourg, “offering a very much needed updated typology and
accessible resources. We are happy to have made this possible through
this international collaboration.” <br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-51671858572963590112022-08-02T10:49:00.002-07:002022-08-02T10:49:42.051-07:00Nomisma Updates: New partner and interlinked data<p>Through the <a href="https://www.kenom.de/">KENOM</a> project, the Coin Cabinet of the <a href="http://www.stadtarchiv.mainz.de/">Mainz City Archives</a> joins the Nomisma.org consortium, providing more than 60 coins to <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre">Online Coins of the Roman Empire</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7qTASsQUFtGLRX71fK8eVLVxvJvwSaz-Z4SBv3oH0QW7s94T9jjxy8HH7jKhZcoazKJay3M2h41-5dzPhbopg9ZmFWLl6bAkyyGpAMTHV8f4-uWlmVigQgZT9LRerOPPsJEBz5n9yAlWsYG2maaEbLIN6pHiliCWqlmKQXK98Pjg7EY1eS9Pog/s320/mk_mainz.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="320" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7qTASsQUFtGLRX71fK8eVLVxvJvwSaz-Z4SBv3oH0QW7s94T9jjxy8HH7jKhZcoazKJay3M2h41-5dzPhbopg9ZmFWLl6bAkyyGpAMTHV8f4-uWlmVigQgZT9LRerOPPsJEBz5n9yAlWsYG2maaEbLIN6pHiliCWqlmKQXK98Pjg7EY1eS9Pog/s1600/mk_mainz.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>In addition, more than 3,500 URIs from the <a href="https://ikmk.smb.museum">IKMK</a> thesaurus system (the <a href="https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/">Normdatenportal</a>, or NDP) have been incorporated into Nomisma RDF, as either skos:closeMatch for mints or skos:exactMatch for other classes. The data were provided by Karsten Dahmen at the MK Berlin, and the URIs were incorporated into the Nomisma RDF with a relatively simple script.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-377015035878237312022-07-14T12:33:00.003-07:002022-07-14T12:33:30.021-07:00Geographic export in Nomisma.org finally migrated from Pelagios RDF to Linked Places GeoJSON-LD<p>At long last, the <a href="http://nomisma.org">Nomisma.org</a> geographic export from in the nearly ten year old Pelagios RDF/XML model has been migrated into <a href="https://github.com/LinkedPasts/linked-places-format">Linked Places GeoJSON-LD</a>. The query of places from Nomisma includes all mints and regions that have a spatial extent. These places are predominately mints, as only a few regions have explicit polygon spatial boundaries. As such, the Linked Places export does not include the full geographic hierarchy between mints and regions (yet), although it may be possible to generate a bounding box of a region formed by the extent of child mint locations. The new download URL is <a href="http://nomisma.org/linked-places.json">http://nomisma.org/linked-places.json</a>.<br /></p><p>Another requirement of a Linked Places place is a "when" property that includes a data range and optional period URIs. These are not explicit within Nomisma, although they can be derived by the link between the mint/region and a "field of numismatics" concept URI. There are about two dozen fields of numismatics in Nomisma (e.g., <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/roman_numismatics">Roman</a>, <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/byzantine_numismatics">Byzantine</a>, <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/islamic_numismatics">Islamic</a>, and <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/greek_numismatics">Greek</a>), and I have updated these concepts to insert URIs for corresponding periods in the DAI's <a href="https://chronontology.dainst.org/">ChronOntology</a>, <a href="https://perio.do/en/">Perio.do</a>, and style facets defined in the <a href="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/">Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus</a>. Fields of numismatics aren't precisely periods, and so they are linked with the skos:related property rather than skos:exactMatch, which is usually implemented for linking to external thesauri from Nomisma concepts.</p><p>The date range of the "when" property is required in Linked Places. It is not currently available in the JSON export, but we are going to put a broad start and end date range into the field of numismatics concepts, which we can then incorporate into the export after minor modifications to the underlying <a href="https://gist.github.com/ewg118/26ebc278d7424e9953a30d6970e5e3bf">SPARQL query</a>. Apart from this the period "name" is not populated, since we are only storing URIs for these concepts in Nomisma, and not any additional metadata we might extract from those target information systems.</p><p>Other than these temporary deficiencies, the model is fairly fleshed out. There are about 2,000 places with geographic coordinates in Nomisma.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHiXeaDpqGF8iLgnjAs0T2WQaoJO81-64svRxrv1L8KzaEjCaPkMZQEW2hay_92m3kTVk_GMYsw3w9ts3pm9XF5_p1zGc-JsySkUTunJ_-xCv8ditgQeGWIFu0c2tgVi4-NxSAAouNnEl1aUqEH69FtFg-zmxto_g-Jh-ihMNwKh3uute7nkiT6Q/s2296/Screenshot%20from%202022-07-14%2014-31-11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="2296" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHiXeaDpqGF8iLgnjAs0T2WQaoJO81-64svRxrv1L8KzaEjCaPkMZQEW2hay_92m3kTVk_GMYsw3w9ts3pm9XF5_p1zGc-JsySkUTunJ_-xCv8ditgQeGWIFu0c2tgVi4-NxSAAouNnEl1aUqEH69FtFg-zmxto_g-Jh-ihMNwKh3uute7nkiT6Q/w400-h320/Screenshot%20from%202022-07-14%2014-31-11.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linked Places Geo-JSON-LD views in the <a href="http://geojson.io/">GeoJSON sandbox</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>Hopefully this export will pave the way for Nomisma.org geographic concepts to be integrated into the World Historical Gazetteer since the old Pelagios geographic aggregation system has been deprecated.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-23185029330143889252022-07-08T11:04:00.006-07:002022-07-08T11:16:47.529-07:00Esty's die calculations and frequency visualizations added to CRRO<p>At long last, I've had a gap between a couple of projects to spend some time developing a new feature in <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro">Coinage of the Roman Republic Online</a> (CRRO) that Liv Yarrow and Lucia Carbone requested last winter. There is now a significant number of coins die-linked within the <a href="http://numismatics.org/rrdp">Roman Republican Die Project</a> (RRDP) that this network of relationships can be used to dynamically calculate the estimated number of dies for a Roman Republican coin type in CRRO. These calculations are based on formulas in Warren G. Esty's 2006 "How to estimate the original number of dies and the coverage of a sample" and the 2011 follow-up, "The Geometric Model for Estimating the Number of Dies," with <i>p </i>= 1 instead of <i>p </i>= 2 in a later addendum.</p><p>A new API in <a href="http://nomisma.org/">Nomisma</a> was created to perform these underlying calculations and respond with JSON data that are rendered into HTML with a d3.js chart in corresponding pages in CRRO. The <a href="http://nomisma.org/apis/dieCounts">http://nomisma.org/apis/dieCounts</a> API executes a SPARQL query to generate a list of named graphs that correspond to die studies (in this case, Richard Schaefer's RRDP, <a href="http://nomisma.org/editor/rschaefer">http://nomisma.org/editor/rschaefer</a>) and related type corpora. There is also a list of available formulas for calculating die estimates, although the only one at present is Esty's. The formulas are extensible.</p><p>The next phase of the API call once selecting a formula (<a href="http://nomisma.org/apis/dieCounts/esty">http://nomisma.org/apis/dieCounts/esty</a>) is to provide two request parameters: 'type' for the coin type URI and 'dieStudy' for the named graph URI. For example, <a href="http://nomisma.org/apis/dieCounts/esty?dieStudy=http%3A%2F%2Fnomisma.org%2Feditor%2Frschaefer&type=http%3A%2F%2Fnumismatics.org%2Fcrro%2Fid%2Frrc-336.1c">http://nomisma.org/apis/dieCounts/esty?dieStudy=http%3A%2F%2Fnomisma.org%2Feditor%2Frschaefer&type=http%3A%2F%2Fnumismatics.org%2Fcrro%2Fid%2Frrc-336.1c</a></p><p>This JSON response includes the number of specimens (n), number of unique dies (d), singletons (dies that appear on only one coin, d1), estimated coverage (based on these numbers, c_est), estimated number of dies for the type (d_est, given the coverage value), and the minimum and maximum range of dies given 95% confidence.</p><p>The response includes these calculations for both the obverse and the reverse, if applicable (some types may be linked to only obverse or reverse dies, but not both). Four SPARQL queries are submitted for each side of the coin and the JSON response that results from these queries is used by CRRO to display the results in HTML and a line graph.</p><p>The SPARQL queries for the obverse dies associated with <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-336.1c">RRC 336/1c</a> are as follows:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Number of coins with a die: <a href="https://gist.github.com/ewg118/de29e459bde316f854b41d390081853b">https://gist.github.com/ewg118/de29e459bde316f854b41d390081853b</a></li><li>Unique number of dies associated with a type: <a href="https://gist.github.com/ewg118/9a587212964436098a47c85b8fa58faf">https://gist.github.com/ewg118/9a587212964436098a47c85b8fa58faf</a></li><li>Number of singletons. This is a subselect of dies connected to one object: <a href="https://gist.github.com/ewg118/d7d1d655b8e740784bed6c3886cb566d">https://gist.github.com/ewg118/d7d1d655b8e740784bed6c3886cb566d</a></li><li>Frequency (how many dies are represented by how many coins): <a href="https://gist.github.com/ewg118/53ece887943761f680184ecbc02b2d12">https://gist.github.com/ewg118/53ece887943761f680184ecbc02b2d12</a> <br /></li></ul><p>The first three queries are executed before implementing Esty's die estimate calculations, which are reflected in his 2006 article (with some later revision, as noted above):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7zD3tQvE1emQXeO8aCAZOlO6C1iSEn3W1CUqN6Mmst5Am-pzOZ4F5N25K0xpuzs8sc1zFiX8EYXAFC8Y0j-FjCdBDsqenyCPXTnKrR5hcCRb30QdxCQi0JvX5iSrSHgcFPpOTNCOGKxNRflZT33grgIyB8Et32RjEaebAO-9BrUZGYtk7Lbirw/s403/Screenshot%20from%202022-07-08%2013-51-27.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="403" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7zD3tQvE1emQXeO8aCAZOlO6C1iSEn3W1CUqN6Mmst5Am-pzOZ4F5N25K0xpuzs8sc1zFiX8EYXAFC8Y0j-FjCdBDsqenyCPXTnKrR5hcCRb30QdxCQi0JvX5iSrSHgcFPpOTNCOGKxNRflZT33grgIyB8Et32RjEaebAO-9BrUZGYtk7Lbirw/w400-h215/Screenshot%20from%202022-07-08%2013-51-27.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHb2bXn81adC1GZ4bD48DLxs3d9wLY7Ml39rF-B2LSnP7VJClKKQH2SO5z9pv6AE8U0xVcrRhVf6CXHyY2h4b2FhJSd-YhnVIw87tzVCuScX-E3o6XfVaMmPcTS2L9emR2DtEqijhKsq2vUpvwUzjpOjlt42Jh0gfRC2oserAdn4aQ91mg1v6kkg/s653/Screenshot%20from%202022-07-08%2013-51-40.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="653" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHb2bXn81adC1GZ4bD48DLxs3d9wLY7Ml39rF-B2LSnP7VJClKKQH2SO5z9pv6AE8U0xVcrRhVf6CXHyY2h4b2FhJSd-YhnVIw87tzVCuScX-E3o6XfVaMmPcTS2L9emR2DtEqijhKsq2vUpvwUzjpOjlt42Jh0gfRC2oserAdn4aQ91mg1v6kkg/w400-h151/Screenshot%20from%202022-07-08%2013-51-40.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The <a href="https://github.com/nomisma/framework/blob/master/ui/xslt/serializations/sparql/dieCounts.xsl#LC128">template</a> for applying Esty's calculations is in XSLT with some additional math functions that aren't inherent in the XSLT 2.0 spec. These templates are extensible to include proposed formulas from other scholars.</p><p>The end result for <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-336.1c#dieAnalysis">RRC 336/1c</a> appears below:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrg2fh8X4apW4gUR2izAyi35P444LT4AufACozkZUUXLfQrHLBchzvTGSfeSuvfAU38uoGGP8ScNdqXJ_zC9Zn0O4G2QH7nYSsMFMZ3IBdZQOEz5rScg2G_4DdsuSfboAF9IRR_zyEfk_Q1Aa_YDFC6br6mW0mJam08eh8Jj-Qmt_Gy3NDNjPtqQ/s2304/Screenshot%20from%202022-07-08%2013-57-27.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1311" data-original-width="2304" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrg2fh8X4apW4gUR2izAyi35P444LT4AufACozkZUUXLfQrHLBchzvTGSfeSuvfAU38uoGGP8ScNdqXJ_zC9Zn0O4G2QH7nYSsMFMZ3IBdZQOEz5rScg2G_4DdsuSfboAF9IRR_zyEfk_Q1Aa_YDFC6br6mW0mJam08eh8Jj-Qmt_Gy3NDNjPtqQ/w400-h228/Screenshot%20from%202022-07-08%2013-57-27.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Die estimates and frequency visualization<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The frequency statistics are also downloadable as CSV. <br /></p><p>These calculations are performed dynamically when the page is loaded, so they reflect the current state of data entry. The numbers can and probably will change over time as more data are added into the Roman Republican knowledge graph stored in Nomisma.org. In the past, it may have taken weeks or months to aggregate the data necessary to perform these calculations, which can now be generated nearly instantaneously based on tens of thousands of coins linked to both types and dies.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-15946919429727781852022-06-28T10:43:00.001-07:002022-06-28T10:44:08.428-07:00Updating search context in RRDP: coin types as a search facet<p>I have finally had the time to enhance the search indexing of dies in the <a href="http://numismatics.org/rrdp">Roman Republican Die Project</a>. Although RRDP dies may have the <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro">RRC</a> number in the ID portion of the URI or in the title of the record, there is no explicit link in RRDP metadata from a die to a type. Instead, dies are linked to specimens, and specimens are linked to types. The initial version of RRDP only indexed explicit metadata into Apache Solr for the search and browse page--in this case, control marks represented by symbols, letters, or monograms. The die -> specimen -> type graph can only be extracted via Nomisma.org's SPARQL endpoint, and I have just recently implemented this SPARQL lookup into the Solr indexing process by creating an API in Numishare to extract a list of coin types associated with a die URI.</p><p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghU4fJFisRuf5tMmadDxcwjyQiv4FQRBPufwnA9i9QInEWVhlVlU_rKxT7dKuKWUv9hxWDT0mTXOzQAfc2qxDUOs2-TZsVwQpBbp271UrBliRoHii76ZarkPA_esWE2JgnxHuXhsmOGz8tohWwdk-JD-IfzCM8radoTCq7HLATCK3J4uXeeJvAXA/s2303/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-28%2013-24-09.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="2303" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghU4fJFisRuf5tMmadDxcwjyQiv4FQRBPufwnA9i9QInEWVhlVlU_rKxT7dKuKWUv9hxWDT0mTXOzQAfc2qxDUOs2-TZsVwQpBbp271UrBliRoHii76ZarkPA_esWE2JgnxHuXhsmOGz8tohWwdk-JD-IfzCM8radoTCq7HLATCK3J4uXeeJvAXA/w400-h183/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-28%2013-24-09.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Updated RRDP browse page with coin type facet<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />As a result, the coin type(s) are now visible in the browse page and can be used for narrowing down the query response. In addition, the list of associated types is visible in the RRDP record page, below the typological description and above the die example photographs.<br /><p></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-18036633951334716282022-06-23T13:56:00.001-07:002022-06-23T13:57:26.733-07:00Updated layout for subtypes in Numishare<p>Upon request for <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/">Coinage of the Roman Republic Online</a>, the layout of subtypes for a parent type has been modified to present the subtypes in a table format with example images presented much like the browse page or types associated with Nomisma concepts (e.g., <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/seleucus_vi">Seleucus VI</a>). The table includes columns for obverse and reverse (where most differences between subtypes are apparent). This format makes it much clearer which elements of the typology vary, for example differences in legend or symbols on the obverse and/or reverse of the coin.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ye5Q_jXxX-3iHPYqYFj7Otx9umlgR6Uq8ayLSlu8scslIDfYfFOnkYM5eRnFTHVTmITJL4kHA5hk4ujZhR-QxDvxvE8XKHvioNbPwKEJXVi2Pl2bFWZQUovG0DK8GuGV9GCT-2i6Aq-nm39BiN25HBYk_gqC7WutQS1tGsL1KSQXeQ6nEn5a6Q/s2306/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-23%2016-45-39.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="2306" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ye5Q_jXxX-3iHPYqYFj7Otx9umlgR6Uq8ayLSlu8scslIDfYfFOnkYM5eRnFTHVTmITJL4kHA5hk4ujZhR-QxDvxvE8XKHvioNbPwKEJXVi2Pl2bFWZQUovG0DK8GuGV9GCT-2i6Aq-nm39BiN25HBYk_gqC7WutQS1tGsL1KSQXeQ6nEn5a6Q/w400-h293/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-23%2016-45-39.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-363.1">RRC 363/1</a> and subtypes.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The "Examples of this Type" section has been moved down under the subtype list. The example list still contains all specimens linked to the parent type or any level of subtype below this, and can be paged through by clicking the relevant buttons in the interface. If you want to see <i>only</i> specimens associated with a subtype, click on the link in the subtype label to view the Numishare record page for that subtype, and all example specimens associated with the subtype will be available for view or download.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2a9Dlb2xEH7aM8L3zTcV7bDNu1T4gjpbYvv4SHfVLed8ozzb4SueGcdGEjubzgyZNEAV1HO06xdO0ynugAI7Hg9w84g8a0ZaW3lDC7hcygCYdptVZeZ5JjThgMGzW992KF3uEhjk2NEi7g2ZJWJ-d_c2VX0Jxw4BGw9QtWjfIffAgMpTARt56qQ/s2309/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-23%2016-54-47.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1676" data-original-width="2309" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2a9Dlb2xEH7aM8L3zTcV7bDNu1T4gjpbYvv4SHfVLed8ozzb4SueGcdGEjubzgyZNEAV1HO06xdO0ynugAI7Hg9w84g8a0ZaW3lDC7hcygCYdptVZeZ5JjThgMGzW992KF3uEhjk2NEi7g2ZJWJ-d_c2VX0Jxw4BGw9QtWjfIffAgMpTARt56qQ/w400-h290/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-23%2016-54-47.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.1">Seleucid Coins 1.1</a> and subtypes, with variations in symbols<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-32335841565752374242022-06-21T07:15:00.005-07:002022-06-21T07:15:54.333-07:00The Egypt Centre at Swansea University joins OCRE<p>The <a href="https://www.egypt.swan.ac.uk/">Egypt Centre</a> of Swansea University is the latest partner in the <a href="http://nomisma.org">Nomisma.org</a> consortium. The
museum houses 6,000 objects from Egypt and the
ancient world, including Greece, Rome, Cyprus, Mesopotamia, and Nubia. Among these are about 50 <a href="https://egyptcentre.abasetcollections.com/">Roman imperial coins</a>, which have now been integrated into <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre">Online Coins of the Roman Empire</a>.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdwtE8s9s__eFnkrwMk7XPLk0gzjWsdGmGpF-Xg5wxvI9zfHn20Lp1Ip9uKFj37Mu05pFlFKBNN3g5UZHEV1PA1BjbJ28WLlOaywaXlvhregUAPuaQ4C2gB88jwj57vabS8NcGZplJ6dR32FSKG6PPqqjVMZJpzqHq9iz4MXoTNAh5xpi_Tj3MvA/s2296/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-21%2010-13-35.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1305" data-original-width="2296" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdwtE8s9s__eFnkrwMk7XPLk0gzjWsdGmGpF-Xg5wxvI9zfHn20Lp1Ip9uKFj37Mu05pFlFKBNN3g5UZHEV1PA1BjbJ28WLlOaywaXlvhregUAPuaQ4C2gB88jwj57vabS8NcGZplJ6dR32FSKG6PPqqjVMZJpzqHq9iz4MXoTNAh5xpi_Tj3MvA/w400-h228/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-21%2010-13-35.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.ner.30_denarius">RIC II Nerva 30 (denarius)</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Although the collection is small, it does provide the sole photographic example of at least one type, Nerva 30 (denarius).<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-37144494003103477902022-06-09T11:09:00.006-07:002022-06-09T11:09:48.338-07:00New version of Nomisma.org site released<p>Last Friday was the soft launch of the new <a href="http://nomisma.org/">Nomisma.org website</a>. The design aspects of dynamically generated pages are largely unchanged (search results based on Solr, interfaces built on SPARQL, concept pages generated from RDF), but we have migrated all static content to <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a>. This will make it easier for Nomisma committee members to update pages through Github, making the project more sustainable in the long-term since I (Ethan Gruber) won't have to update these static pages within the <a href="https://github.com/nomisma/framework">Nomisma framework</a>.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Hx3aoM4ve1G06IBf5VzXwwJIPMjiJnKon7k8aBrZo44oUhC89yFIGR_lZyMrt_GynKQokcB_fTImw_l9PGSSFEspCP5hZW6Sw0rq2C-Wr0ziFVYqFdVmigfNCqhCMKMZydBvQOiu59hV9HEWS11jdDLM1YCARah8ghKv8QkgtBEldljg2Q2jmg/s2313/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-09%2014-08-58.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1810" data-original-width="2313" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Hx3aoM4ve1G06IBf5VzXwwJIPMjiJnKon7k8aBrZo44oUhC89yFIGR_lZyMrt_GynKQokcB_fTImw_l9PGSSFEspCP5hZW6Sw0rq2C-Wr0ziFVYqFdVmigfNCqhCMKMZydBvQOiu59hV9HEWS11jdDLM1YCARah8ghKv8QkgtBEldljg2Q2jmg/w400-h313/Screenshot%20from%202022-06-09%2014-08-58.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>The new site introduces an improved structure for getting information about Nomisma. It includes:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>An about page with the history of the project and list of current projects.</li><li>The <a href="http://nomisma.org/about/scientific_committee/">scientific committee</a>.</li><li>A list of Nomisma <a href="http://nomisma.org/about/working_groups/">working groups</a> and whom to email about contributing.</li><li>A landing page with more concise information about how to get Nomisma <a href="http://nomisma.org/data/">data</a>.</li><li>Improved UI for <a href="http://nomisma.org/documentation/sparql/">SPARQL examples</a> (expect more examples to come) and two YouTube videos that introduce Nomisma's data model and SPARQL endpoint.</li><li>A link to a <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/4411268/digital_numismatics">Digital Numismatics bibliography</a> (a Zotero group) maintained by the scientific committee</li><li>Furthermore, I made an improvement to the <a href="http://nomisma.org/datasets">partner datasets</a> page in order to categorize contributions by dataset type (collections, types, hoards, etc.). </li></ul><p> In the near future, you should expect the publication of the Nomisma cookbook. This cookbook is our long-overdue detailed documentation of our ontology and data model, with specific modelling examples represented as TTL.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-39970783355978868042022-05-10T11:42:00.004-07:002022-05-10T11:42:59.391-07:00New version of Coinage of the Roman Republic Online released<p>Today, an improved version of <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro">Coinage of the Roman Republic Online</a> (CRRO) was released. This release improves the consistency of the data entry and implements the type-subtype hierarchical structure in Crawford's original RRC typology. The CRRO types are no longer a flat structure of about 2200 entries, but there are now about 1750 parent types and about 500 subtypes, with subtypes links to parents through the skos:broader RDF property upon ingestion into <a href="http://Nomisma.org">Nomisma.org</a>. Improvements were made in other areas as well:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Issuers represented by symbols or letters were generated as Nomisma.org URIs. Some symbols were reused in different periods, implying different moneyers, and so each one has a different URI, e.g., <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/star_1_issuer_rrc">http://nomisma.org/id/star_1_issuer_rrc</a>.</li><li>Type descriptions and legends were cleaned and normalized. Control marks of various types were split into different positions with respect to the obverse and reverse of the coin. These symbols are now queryable in the browse page, much like <a href="http://numismatics.org/hrc">Hellenistic Royal Coinages</a>.</li><li>Deities URIs from the British Museum were replaced with new Nomisma.org ones. Several new deities were created in Nomisma that were not accessible in the search facets before, although we certainly have not isolated all of them yet.<br /></li><li>People who appear on the coins are now searchable through a portrait facet. These types mostly affect coins of the First and Second Triumvirates, although some miscellaneous regnal or early Republican period people were created in Nomisma.org.</li><li>The mint facet was cleaned up so that only true Nomisma.org mints appear in the list (or "Uncertain Value") and historical regions moved into the hierarchical region facet. We rely on Nomisma's geographic hierarchy to populate the region facet when we are able to identify the mint.</li><li>All of the Roman Republican issuers have been linked to the Nomisma concept for the <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/roman_republic">Roman Republic</a>, with start and end dates for their role(s) as a moneyer. <br /></li><li>We adopted the EpiDoc TEI specification for <a href="https://epidoc.stoa.org/gl/latest/trans-ligature.html">ligatures</a> in the legends (see <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/results?q=issuer_facet:%22C.%20Claudius%20Marcellus%22)">this</a> query result and related types).</li></ul><p> <br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl_PtB-8mrb67PSX2Gus3li-IM0CWyQJJ7qUbQ4PTA7sAaXxDDujpWXVdXmOrrjmknX8ygCdvADwZ-E3BiTl3TZAOO4MDYPA2L3UqoqtBMN_8IegGPNCD2iTSQIDEv_oTc4eVcUIm4C0M_IdT04BZwZR_kryBQymVMxjgATmscfyIwpr3RNjdRDw/s2279/Screenshot%20from%202022-05-10%2014-12-46.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2279" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl_PtB-8mrb67PSX2Gus3li-IM0CWyQJJ7qUbQ4PTA7sAaXxDDujpWXVdXmOrrjmknX8ygCdvADwZ-E3BiTl3TZAOO4MDYPA2L3UqoqtBMN_8IegGPNCD2iTSQIDEv_oTc4eVcUIm4C0M_IdT04BZwZR_kryBQymVMxjgATmscfyIwpr3RNjdRDw/w400-h239/Screenshot%20from%202022-05-10%2014-12-46.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Example of browse page with ligatures in legends and queryable symbols.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Background <br /></h4><p>When CRRO was published in 2015, it had been derived from cataloging data from the British Museum database, curated by Eleanor Ghey. Specimens that were not represented in the BM were supplemented by data entered by Rick Witschonke. At the time, Rick was entering the late stages in his fight against cancer, and very much wanted to see an "<a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre">OCRE</a>" for <i>Roman Republican Coinage</i>. We expedited the publication of CRRO as a result, even though it was not quite as robust at the outset as OCRE was. Despite the popularity of CRRO (second only to OCRE in usage out of the ANS' digital projects), we have not been able to revisit the data structure of the project in over 7 years. Furthermore, the original Excel spreadsheet from which the CRRO data originated no longer seems to exist or be accessible online.</p><p>Several months ago, I processed the NUDS/XML files from CRRO back into a spreadsheet that I began to normalize in OpenRefine. After some clean-up, this was uploaded as a Google Spreadsheet for more fine-tuned editing by the ANS curatorial associate, Alice Sharpless (who primarily works on the <a href="http://numismatics.org/rrdp">Roman Republican Die Project</a>). Alice did a significant amount of normalizing legends and type descriptions, fixed issues with the conflation of region URIs as mints, and split symbols into multiple columns.<br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Next Steps</h4><p>Now that CRRO exists as a canonical spreadsheet that can easily be edited or updated, we plan to insert some new Republican typologies that have been published since RRC in 1974. These new types can be slotted into the spreadsheet as necessary with an appropriate bibliographic reference. These new types are necessary for further cataloging both in RRDP and <a href="http://numismatics.org/chrr">Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic</a>, which will hopefully see a new edition from Kris Lockyear.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-10679552016252466062022-03-31T12:18:00.002-07:002022-03-31T12:18:45.538-07:00Nomisma and ANS digital projects accessible at HTTPS<p>Following the migration of the American Numismatic Society website and digital projects (including Nomisma.org) from our old Rackspace server to a new cloud server hosted by Amazon Web Services, the ANS website (Wordpress) has been fully migrated to use an SSL certificate and HTTPS. The same certificate has been applied to the other ANS digital projects to enable secure interactions via HTTPS URLs, but the old HTTP URLs do not forward automatically to HTTPS. The main reason for this is that http:// and https:// URIs are considered difference in Semantic Web applications, and migrating to HTTPS creates a number of unpredictable downstream effects for consumers of our machine readable data.</p><p>Those who use SSL in their own information systems and want to consume Nomisma or ANS machine readable data using Javascript in a web browser will be able to do so by replacing http with https in the web service URL.</p><p>The ANS IIIF image server has incorporated automatic forwarding to HTTPS, and so the advantage in this case is that other systems that use HTTPS (such as the <a href="https://dlmenetwork.org/library">Digital Library of the Middle East</a>, Peripleo, <a href="https://iacb.arch.ox.ac.uk/">Iron Age Coins in Britain</a>, and other external aggregators) will be able to securely load JSON resources from IIIF manifests and the image server.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-58037692280478656852022-03-24T07:24:00.000-07:002022-03-24T07:24:01.856-07:00Updates to mapping functionality in Numishare<p>At long last, I have implemented some contextual changes in the display of points in the maps pages in the Numishare platform, particularly with respect to the sizing of points to reflect density of distribution (like what had <a href="https://numishare.blogspot.com/2021/09/improved-geographic-context-for-other.html">already been implemented</a> in maps on nomisma.org and record pages in Numishare).</p><p>The changes can be summarized as follows:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Mint, findspot, and geographic subject (applies to <a href="http://numismatics.org/aod/">Art of Devastation</a> only, so far) layers have variable sizing based on density.</li><li>The marker cluster plugin has been disabled for individual findspots, so each point is readily apparent without further zooming into the map.</li><li>The findspot layer now refreshes correctly after narrowing the search facets down.</li><li>Symbol facet menus now display the correct, human-readable label, and monogram SVG graphics will appear in the menu, as it functions on the browse page.</li></ul><p>These visualization updates have also been implemented in the map popup window on the browse page.</p><p>The changes are most readily apparent in the <a href="https://cci.arch.ox.ac.uk/">Celtic Coins Index Digital</a>. <br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6j0njEDv7GGbszvMgLk2eU5Jb7fIG2FHkioUOnL4qavk-Ozo9xo5Mj1-OcbSE5QenEI2E6yEr0jSvbO0u0eKPE6tEpgufbaJLRg7Zu_ObEgCyXPiGKnmG1smPwJxD3WUvRbktZ5RZZOgntyhuxoTF9BvJBTWZBb4OzMkdJvcJe307DPpT2ZvOJg/s2329/Screenshot%20from%202022-03-24%2010-12-58.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="2329" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6j0njEDv7GGbszvMgLk2eU5Jb7fIG2FHkioUOnL4qavk-Ozo9xo5Mj1-OcbSE5QenEI2E6yEr0jSvbO0u0eKPE6tEpgufbaJLRg7Zu_ObEgCyXPiGKnmG1smPwJxD3WUvRbktZ5RZZOgntyhuxoTF9BvJBTWZBb4OzMkdJvcJe307DPpT2ZvOJg/w400-h171/Screenshot%20from%202022-03-24%2010-12-58.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Findspot distribution of the <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/corieltavi">Corieltavi</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> And <a href="http://numismatics.org/hrc/">Hellenistic Royal Coinages</a> clearly illustrates the highest level of production in Amphipolis and Alexandria:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyaElClNNi3KgnwbQb-zJCBoJMk5GwyT0CvU_9O8Mn8v4ljWlHt0rVbIIqIKGVw3FsPk5QLXXyV0iOL2M8V1Ittjs_k3Iv42a8NYiL0GfQ6a0y3v3t7I9sRLUpc7G_2-0rjdZDWABuVcQgYJ78Ipq6l9Avpmp8UyFHgJpQ8v94w1xb46v5mMK9TA/s1892/Screenshot%20from%202022-03-24%2010-15-50.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="1892" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyaElClNNi3KgnwbQb-zJCBoJMk5GwyT0CvU_9O8Mn8v4ljWlHt0rVbIIqIKGVw3FsPk5QLXXyV0iOL2M8V1Ittjs_k3Iv42a8NYiL0GfQ6a0y3v3t7I9sRLUpc7G_2-0rjdZDWABuVcQgYJ78Ipq6l9Avpmp8UyFHgJpQ8v94w1xb46v5mMK9TA/w400-h205/Screenshot%20from%202022-03-24%2010-15-50.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>And while the general map of the <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/">Roman Empire</a> isn't particularly illustrative (about half of all types minted in Rome), when you drill down into specific queries, the variations in production are more apparent.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdSYqsnYmRIn0ra98u2ff6AcqBc2kKdm93sIrWhR9QjI_x01383YD87VHuQ-ccHntnlTJFU7Tj9yWCZlU2bm7fDgLHlkH3nnJFII9h-JrXkGm116Onc8bo-n01tqS_Qy6dI9q4y7yoz4mg0Cxg6rR-3TxhsfHOZB4xFc6ITo9DEziBuSMlHh5D_g/s2088/Screenshot%20from%202022-03-24%2010-18-38.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="2088" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdSYqsnYmRIn0ra98u2ff6AcqBc2kKdm93sIrWhR9QjI_x01383YD87VHuQ-ccHntnlTJFU7Tj9yWCZlU2bm7fDgLHlkH3nnJFII9h-JrXkGm116Onc8bo-n01tqS_Qy6dI9q4y7yoz4mg0Cxg6rR-3TxhsfHOZB4xFc6ITo9DEziBuSMlHh5D_g/w400-h344/Screenshot%20from%202022-03-24%2010-18-38.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mint distribution of Constantine I<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-32640870549595324542022-01-25T11:06:00.002-08:002022-01-25T11:06:20.580-08:00About 600 RIC X photographed gold coins from the British Museum added to OCRE<p>Before the holiday, I received a spreadsheet export from Richard Abdy, one of the curators in the Coins & Medals department at the British Museum, which includes all of the photographed gold coins from RIC volume X. This represents an addition of approximately 600 objects to <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre">Online Coins of the Roman Empire</a>. Quite a few of these contributions represent the only photographed example of the type.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI7powQvFzaSVxuv2IPXtoOiv2B4J9Ofz657xfbltlrKIRyYQmrITGXLOKThyUF7_9IoxTia17t8km_ti5NqltzxfTtkmHsOLG7nk81Jf3dhus0dWE-L79LMQPNoGZITCfkz2HdhxjXBINdlpL39EFrWOlm87CpQpmmmalDScCk1bftG2BNbVs9Q=s1667" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="1667" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI7powQvFzaSVxuv2IPXtoOiv2B4J9Ofz657xfbltlrKIRyYQmrITGXLOKThyUF7_9IoxTia17t8km_ti5NqltzxfTtkmHsOLG7nk81Jf3dhus0dWE-L79LMQPNoGZITCfkz2HdhxjXBINdlpL39EFrWOlm87CpQpmmmalDScCk1bftG2BNbVs9Q=w400-h276" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gold coins from RIC 10 in <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=recordId%3Aric.10*+AND+material_facet%3A%22Gold%22">OCRE</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-13106759517438218112022-01-06T11:12:00.001-08:002022-01-06T11:12:57.064-08:00Swiss National Museum joins Nomisma<p>Under the direction of long-time <a href="http://nomisma.org">Nomisma</a> scientific committee member Christian Weiss, the <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/SNM">Swiss National Museum</a> has joined the Nomisma Linked Open Data cloud, providing data for nearly 8,500 coins in the collection to various online type portals, including <a href="http://numismatics.org/hrc">Hellenistic</a>, <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro">Roman Republican</a>, <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre">Imperial</a>, and <a href="https://iacb.arch.ox.ac.uk/">British Iron Age</a> coinage.</p><p>The most significant contribution comes in the form of 8,000 Swiss coins from the Medieval to Modern periods in the prototype <a href="https://oscar.nationalmuseum.ch/">Online Swiss Coin Archive</a> (OSCAR) project, which catalogs more than 9,000 typologies produced in Switzerland from 491 CE to the present day. Already, several hundred coins from Berlin and Winterthur were accessible through OSCAR in previous data imports. While OSCAR is not yet complete (there is much work remaining in creating Nomisma URIs for Swiss authorities and denominations), the preliminary RDF data for OSCAR have been uploaded into the Nomisma SPARQL endpoint, facilitating more advanced visualization and context in associated Nomisma URIs (see <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/zurich">Zurich</a>, for example). With the Swiss National Collection online, more than 40% of the Swiss types in OSCAR are illustrated by at least one photographed specimen.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzQww0QASJVQqG35vovPGayr2Crj1JGWje4V7K3O2ZbELqfcI8a8gq6J40RSbKKvZGbaOdpN9UY1Q9Wp3uWbZEkA3EmVdAjvrS7t4eBs4vb0dOplptwhGUbhYsJ9-LnMhgDmMb52MUczRJa4brv6biLWaTxp9QPORAcjflwbNPSxPvP20482m5kg=s2270" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1695" data-original-width="2270" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzQww0QASJVQqG35vovPGayr2Crj1JGWje4V7K3O2ZbELqfcI8a8gq6J40RSbKKvZGbaOdpN9UY1Q9Wp3uWbZEkA3EmVdAjvrS7t4eBs4vb0dOplptwhGUbhYsJ9-LnMhgDmMb52MUczRJa4brv6biLWaTxp9QPORAcjflwbNPSxPvP20482m5kg=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://oscar.nationalmuseum.ch/id/oscar.257">OSCAR 257</a>, a 1533 schilling from Zurich<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-55787776487882655622022-01-03T11:42:00.003-08:002022-01-03T11:42:48.843-08:00More than 8,000 Roman Imperial Coins from the BnF added to OCRE<p>More than 8,000 Roman Imperial coins from the <a href="https://www.bnf.fr/fr">Bibliothèque nationale de France</a> have been integrated into <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/">Online Coins of the Roman Empire</a>. This is a significant addition to the project, but does not represent the fully body of the BnF's material. The import includes the issues from Augustus to Trajan, a portion of the Hadrianic collection, and later coins from Carus to Diocletian.</p><p>This represents the BnF's first contribution to OCRE after providing large amounts of <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/">Roman Republican</a> and <a href="http://numismatics.org/hrc/">Hellenistic</a> coinage and a modest number of British Iron Age coinage to <a href="https://iacb.arch.ox.ac.uk/">Iron Age Coins in Britain</a>. Presently, the Bibliothèque nationale has made nearly 40,000 coins available in the numismatic Linked Open Data cloud.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBM335vZKsTUFJonW0AsN7XLaMjmsZGn_66-_P5grhgDz4G_oOryAM81FDqb-MFo7FqRjXu7K6GpSij9kl40Nf1k4MWUkqgH5gscH5bPP0DD645Z0yp_7nzFFTMCzL3mEWxgsCdzJTrP1tp38xsvrXHLq37hkVBntH2B8DsGN2hDfs64XdVft5fQ=s2283" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1447" data-original-width="2283" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBM335vZKsTUFJonW0AsN7XLaMjmsZGn_66-_P5grhgDz4G_oOryAM81FDqb-MFo7FqRjXu7K6GpSij9kl40Nf1k4MWUkqgH5gscH5bPP0DD645Z0yp_7nzFFTMCzL3mEWxgsCdzJTrP1tp38xsvrXHLq37hkVBntH2B8DsGN2hDfs64XdVft5fQ=w400-h254" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A BnF coin (<span>IMP-139)</span> with IIIF images of type <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.510">Hadrian II.3 510</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-12607711977867189412021-11-30T07:40:00.001-08:002021-11-30T07:42:36.009-08:00Royal Library of Belgium joins Nomisma<p>The <a href="https://www.kbr.be">Royal Library of Belgium</a> (KBR; Nomisma URI: <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/kbr">http://nomisma.org/id/kbr</a>) is the newest organization to join the <a href="http://Nomisma.org">Nomisma.org</a> consortium, providing data for about 750 Roman Republican coins in its collection to <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro">Coinage of the Roman Republic Online</a>. The Royal Library of Belgium is one of the largest numismatic collections in Europe, with more than 200,000 objects, and the first Belgian institution to make part of their collection available as Linked Open Data to Nomisma. We hope to integrate their Roman Imperial and Greek coins in other type projects eventually.<br /></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SvpDMb6Wt8M/YaZCepRhqnI/AAAAAAAAKzw/uVVCv7xSzCkA6ZXCloWyPM6N5DcYVZ4ygCLcBGAsYHQ/s1460/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-11-30%2B10-20-31.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1460" height="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SvpDMb6Wt8M/YaZCepRhqnI/AAAAAAAAKzw/uVVCv7xSzCkA6ZXCloWyPM6N5DcYVZ4ygCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h229/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-11-30%2B10-20-31.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A <a href="https://opac.kbr.be/Library/doc/SYRACUSE/10039766">KBR coin</a> (Inv. II, 64.869) linked to <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-250.1">RRC 250/1</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>There are now nearly 60,000 coins available in CRRO (connected to about 2,000 types), making it the most comprehensive resource of its type on the web.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-31813822387454699442021-10-22T10:28:00.001-07:002021-10-22T10:28:04.574-07:00Nomisma pages for organizations list members<p>I have made a small update to the Nomisma.org interface for corporate bodies that will display a list of member people and organizations (and their roles, and start/end date(s), when available). This has been on my agenda for awhile, and makes it easier to drill down from broader political entities, such as the <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/seleucid_empire">Seleucid Empire</a>, down into individual authorities and issuers, organized chronologically.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6M5eTtlfrRA/YXLzSyfzjVI/AAAAAAAAKis/tPrA4mySTCQdnkETzm6juAfFh6dxvKj4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-10-22%2B13-13-07.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1560" data-original-width="2048" height="305" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6M5eTtlfrRA/YXLzSyfzjVI/AAAAAAAAKis/tPrA4mySTCQdnkETzm6juAfFh6dxvKj4wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h305/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-10-22%2B13-13-07.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kings and provinces of the Seleucid Empire.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>I actually wrote this SPARQL query in the Nomisma framework perhaps a year ago, but never built the underlying pipelines to activate an API URL that executes the query and transforms it into HTML for the Nomisma UI. It only took me a couple of hours this morning to wrap this up. </p><p>The list of entities can be downloaded as CSV. Coverage of the Greek world is quite good, owing to the work we've done to create people and organizations for the publication of the <a href="http://coinhoards.org/">Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards</a> in the <a href="http://numismatics.org/hrc">Hellenistic Royal Coinages</a> project.</p><p>We have an outstanding spreadsheet of Roman emperors to be re-ingested into Nomisma, linking them to dynasties and corporate entities. I hope that we will publish these updates soon.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-23197485410450020062021-10-21T13:58:00.000-07:002021-10-21T13:58:04.961-07:00First Smithsonian medal added to Art of Devastation<p>I happened upon the <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/">Smithsonian American Art Museum</a> collection database of medals earlier and came across a World War I medal that I thought might be in the American Numismatic Society's <a href="http://numismatics.org/aod/">Art of Devastation</a> project, and sure enough I was able to locate this <a href="http://numismatics.org/aod/id/21191.13114.3">French Heroes Fund</a> medal from the Medallic Art Company (the archival materials and a large number of objects from which the ANS acquired at auction a few years ago and will catalog/publish online, by the way).<br /></p><p>I was able to create a <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/saam">Nomisma URI</a> for the SAAM and generate a bit of RDF for this medal, linking it to IIIF images hosted by the Smithsonian. There are almost certainly more WWI medals from the SAAM that we might later integrate into the Nomisma.org linked open data cloud.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pbxrE6Hh1tY/YXHUI7M2HaI/AAAAAAAAKig/ipdv5oMBxzcx6AvNtXA-BVjYA8u154BngCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-10-21%2B16-56-40.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1569" data-original-width="2048" height="306" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pbxrE6Hh1tY/YXHUI7M2HaI/AAAAAAAAKig/ipdv5oMBxzcx6AvNtXA-BVjYA8u154BngCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h306/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-10-21%2B16-56-40.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/french-heroes-fund-medal-15816">SAAM 1965.16.63</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-74228197573969042592021-09-24T12:31:00.000-07:002021-09-24T12:31:01.334-07:00More than 2,000 coins of Hadrian from the British Museum added to OCRE<p>I have received a major update from Richard Abdy, curator at the British Museum and author of the most recent <a href="https://spinkbooks.com/products/roman-imperial-coinage-ii-3-from-ad-117-to-ad-138-hadrian-by-ra-abdy-with-pf-mittag">RIC volume</a> on Hadrian, which was published to OCRE in June of 2020. Nearly 2,300 coins from the British Museum have been linked to Hadrian type URIs in the new volume, an increase by about 2,000 over the relatively small number of Hadrianic coins the BM had previously contributed to OCRE. The photographic coverage of Hadrian types is nearly complete. There are, in fact, about 850 types where the British Museum specimen is the only photographed example: about one-quarter of all Hadrianic coin types.<br /></p><p>Furthermore, I queried the BM's API for each coin to extract IIIF service URIs, when available. This extended to all of the BM's contributions to the Nomisma.org ecosystem (Iron Age, Hellenistic, and Roman coinage), and about 16,000 of the 72,000 total coins from the British Museum have zoomable IIIF images.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lKZ5N4lXYiA/YU4WS7l51nI/AAAAAAAAKaY/NdKvQ5nujRAdEtSxy09CoE-PkhZXvIH-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-24%2B13-57-22.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1493" data-original-width="2048" height="291" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lKZ5N4lXYiA/YU4WS7l51nI/AAAAAAAAKaY/NdKvQ5nujRAdEtSxy09CoE-PkhZXvIH-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h291/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-24%2B13-57-22.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A British Museum example of <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.103">Hadrian 103</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><p>The British Museum's API for individual objects is not publicized, but I happened upon it by looking at the console in Firefox to locate the British Museum's IIIF URI pattern (which is also not publicized). The ID portion of the object URI serves as the 'id' request parameter for the API, e.g., <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/api/_object?id=C_1872-0709-376">https://www.britishmuseum.org/api/_object?id=C_1872-0709-376</a>.</p><p>The IIIF URL is 'zoom' property for each 'processed' in the 'multimedia' array. This is a relative path that should be appended to https://media.britishmuseum.org/iiif/. The other static jpg files paths are appended to https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/.</p><p>Frustratingly, the object metadata are not encoded in the JSON response as clean and machine-readable. It is possible to parse data from the escaped HTML in 'xtemplate', but it requires a little clean-up. I was able to parse the measurements for the Hadrianic coins from the xtemplate for the Hadrianic coins in OpenRefine, since they weren't in the the spreadsheet export I had received.<br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270180265173432694.post-55422940120845045632021-09-02T14:09:00.002-07:002021-09-02T14:09:08.475-07:00Improved geographic context for other Nomisma concept types<p>I have made some modifications to the underlying SPARQL queries to improve the geographic distribution of regions and dynasties in <a href="http://Nomisma.org">Nomisma.org</a>.</p><p>Previously, a map for a region would show points for coin hoards that contained a coin explicitly from that region. However, it did not exploit the inherent geographic hierarchy expressed by skos:broader between mints and parent regions. For example, there are numerous hoards that contain coins from <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/syracuse">Syracuse</a>, but the map for Sicily did not show them, except for a small handful of hoards that contained Sicilian coins from an uncertain mint (_: nmo:hasRegion nm:sicily). As illustrated below, the coverage for Sicily has been expanded well beyond the two hoards previously depicted to numerous examples: most in Sicily, but others elsewhere in the Mediterranean and one as far as modern Iran.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sJK8clyHzXo/YTE4TSkqCII/AAAAAAAAKS8/_DZxIIw5h7AhGP9WM44TR_Jb2K4_jSp9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1930/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-02%2B14-38-34.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1930" height="203" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sJK8clyHzXo/YTE4TSkqCII/AAAAAAAAKS8/_DZxIIw5h7AhGP9WM44TR_Jb2K4_jSp9QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h203/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-02%2B14-38-34.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geographic distribution of hoards with coins from <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/sicily">Sicily</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Similarly, maps for dynasties now include points for hoards associated to rulers through their relationship to dynasty URIs with org:memberOf.</p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gnBbwc9DTZs/YTE63WOh68I/AAAAAAAAKTM/81mKLJB6IZESlHUjrVkT1b96IVcpBHz_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1868/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-02%2B14-40-34.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1868" height="193" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gnBbwc9DTZs/YTE63WOh68I/AAAAAAAAKTM/81mKLJB6IZESlHUjrVkT1b96IVcpBHz_gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h193/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-02%2B14-40-34.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Distribution of the <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/seleucid_dynasty">Seleucid Dynasty</a> before update</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-46atyluqLsQ/YTE63VHDjBI/AAAAAAAAKTQ/1LEXmr9J-MYPMr8x3cRjVLpnS-1yY8vDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-02%2B14-40-17.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="2048" height="203" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-46atyluqLsQ/YTE63VHDjBI/AAAAAAAAKTQ/1LEXmr9J-MYPMr8x3cRjVLpnS-1yY8vDgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h203/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-02%2B14-40-17.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seleucid Dynasty after update<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p></p><p>One other minor update was to enable the display of findspots and hoards on the map for collections. As you can see, the <a href="http://nomisma.org/id/ans">American Numismatic Society</a> has fairly good coverage within Greek coin hoards.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YM-W8gsIdl0/YTE9UUEYiXI/AAAAAAAAKTk/1lcDBSTDBfAt58Y36UnvlbXRKPtVUjTsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1422/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-02%2B17-07-17.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="1422" height="174" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YM-W8gsIdl0/YTE9UUEYiXI/AAAAAAAAKTk/1lcDBSTDBfAt58Y36UnvlbXRKPtVUjTsQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h174/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2021-09-02%2B17-07-17.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mints and hoards associated with the ANS collection<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ethan Gruberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492799646719449654noreply@blogger.com0