Nomisma as a Pelagios hub for coins

[Ethan Gruber]

Hi all,

Nomisma geographic data are already harvested into Pelagios for concordances between gazetteers (though technically we are not a gazetteer), but I am wondering if there's interest in harvesting the coins we aggregate from different collections. The Pelagios annotations can be inferred by connections between physical specimens -> typology URIs in OCRE, etc -> mints URIs in Nomisma -> Pleiades URIs.

The benefit to this is that we can expose coins for collections that don't have the technical capacity (or will, as the case may be) to create the Pelagios RDF dumps themselves. Obviously, we'll want to weed out some collections (the ANS and University of Virginia) that already expose content to Pelagios directly. Some of our partners do give us Nomisma RDF to ingest, but other partners were incorporated into Nomisma with scripts that I wrote to normalize textual references to URIs and harvest machine readable data from SPARQL or other services. Partners for whom I wrote scripts are unlikely to create their own Pelagios exports, but the Nomisma SPARQL endpoint includes all data necessary to generate Pelagios dumps.

This will open the door for the following partners to contribute to Pelagios:

Berlin

Vienna (soon)

Prehistory Museum of Valencia

Lliria Archaeological Museum

British Museum

Antike Fundmunzen Europa

University College Dublin

Harvard Art Museums

Of course, it should be possible to write a script to dump all ancient content out of the British Museum SPARQL endpoint, link to Pleiades (using Nomisma as the bridge between BM thesaurus URIs and Pleiades), and then generate the Pelagios RDF.

Ethan