Numismatic Database NUMIDAT

Friday, September 30, 2011

Numismatic Database NUMIDAT

Apart from publishing finds of ancient coins from Germany in the series "Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Deutschland (FMRD)", the project Fundmünzen der Antike (FdA) also holds a substantial digital library of records of coin finds in its computer database, NUMIDAT.

At present NUMIDAT contains nearly 90,000 records, including data on some 60,000 coins from the city of Rome (sotto suolo urbano) held in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme and the Museo Capitolino.

Until 2002 records were stored on NUMIZ, the database of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museum of Slovenia. Since then the project has developed its own, tailor-made application using FileMaker Pro®.
An online version, NUMIDAT-WEB, is now online and in the evaluation stage.

While NUMIDAT-WEB is not intended to replace the analogue publication of the main volumes of the FMRD-series, it is envisaged that NUMIDAT-WEB will replace future supplemenatry volumes.

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AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University

AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.

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