Thursday, July 17, 2025

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.

A screen shot of the coin type represented by http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.ss.97_denarius, showing a description of the type, example coins in various museum collections, and a map of circulation.
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. 

Posted by Ethan Gruber at 7:40 AM

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