Digging Coins. Nomisma.Org, A Controlled Vocabulary and Ontology for Numismatic … and Archaeological? … Linked Open Data

As more or less standardised, mass-produced serial products, coins are ideally suited to digital applications, in particular in the context of databases, linked open data and the semantic web. Since 2011 the Nomisma.org consortium has developed a controlled vocabulary and ontology for numismatics that is now widely applied in the discipline and beyond. For example, by employing the concepts of Nomisma.org, The American Numismatic Society alone hosts data on more than 500,000 coins from 86 international projects and institutions that are accessible via portals such as Online Coins of the Roman Empire (https://numismatics.org/ocre/) and the Nommisma.org SPARQL endpoint (http://nomisma.org/sparql/). Many other projects such as Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire (https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/) implement the Nomisma.org vocabulary and so are fully integrated into the wider world of linked open data. The ARIADNE EU-FP7 project “Report on the ARIADNE Linked Data Cloud” mentioned Nomisma.org as a particular example of good practice from which the archaeological community can benefit. Whereas work initially focused primarily on coins from collections and typologies, coins from excavations, as well as finds made by the public, have increasingly become a focus. This not only involves resources such as the Portable Antiquities Scheme of England and Wales aligning their data with Nomisma.org, but also portals such as Numisdata (https://numisdata.org/) that publish excavation coins. This paper will present the development and architecture of Nomisma.org, as well as the philosophy behind it. Questions addressed will include how Nomisma.org can – and can not – be a paradigm for archaeological data, as well as how it can facilitate better integration of numismatic data (and thus numismatics) into archaeological research and discourse. https://nomisma.org/ https://nomisma.hypotheses.org/nomisma-org. Abstract taken from the EAA 2024 Abstract Book: 30th EAA Annual Meeting (Rome, Italy 2024) - Abstract Book Names, titles and affiliations are reproduced as submitted by the session organisers and/or authors. Language and wording of titles and abstracts were not revised. Technical editing: Sára Tylšová, Magda Karabáš (EAA) Design and layout: Sára Tylšová, Magda Karabáš (EAA) Design - cover: Symposia srl Design - logo: Caterina Amendola European Association of Archaeologists Rome, August 2024 © European Association of Archaeologists, 2024 ISBN 978-80-88441-08-3 30th EAA Annual Meeting (Rome, 2024) https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2024/scientificprogramme