Art Institute of Chicago joins the numismatic Linked Open Data cloud

The Art Institute of Chicago is the latest collection to join the growing international Nomisma.org Linked Open Data ecosystem, providing more than 200 Roman Imperial coins for Online Coins of the Roman Empire. This is the first portion of their numismatic collection to be integrated into the LOD cloud, and other ancient coins will be integrated in due course.

AIC coin 1920.1008 on RIC Septimius Severus 97 (denarius)

 

The images provided by the AIC are IIIF compatible, providing zooming functionality in the OCRE user interface, and they are also granted public domain licenses regarding their reuse in publications. 

Samarian coinage added to Levantine Coins Online

It had gone unannounced on this blog at the time, but in late March, 376 coin types from the upcoming A Corpus of Samarian Coinage, by Oren Tal, Haim Gitler, and Mati Johananoff, were published to Levantine Coins Online. The ANS has recently cataloged our relevant coins with these new Samarian URIs, which have subsequently been exported from Mantis into the Nomisma.org SPARQL endpoint. The ANS now contributes 255 of the 377 total coins linking to LCO, providing photographic examples of 162 of the 376 published Samarian types.

A screenshot of http://nomisma.org/id/samarian_coinage, with map and type examples

At least one of the ANS's objects is from IGCH 1504, providing a hoard coordinate point the related coin type and Nomisma.org numismatic concepts.

The type data were prepared for publication by Jessica Schillig.