Nomisma.org News: KENOM project joins Nomisma/OCRE

KENOM project joins Nomisma/OCRE

The KENOM project, a consortium of 13 German institutions contributing into a central numismatic portal, has been integrated into Nomisma.org. More than 4,500 Roman Imperial coins from three institutions (The State Coin Collection of Munich, the Coin Cabinet of the University of Goettingen, and Thuringian Museum for Pre- and Early History) have been made available Online Coins of the Roman Empire. All of these coins have been photographed at a high resolution and are published following the IIIF specification, which are treated as zoomable images in OCRE, and will eventually be useful for more sophisticated iconographic annotation.

Augustus 171A

Below is a fuller description of KENOM:

KENOM (Kooperative Erschließung und Nutzung der Objektdaten von Münzsammlungen) is a long time project of different numismatic collections in Germany to bring their numismatic objects (coins, medals, paper money and also coin find-informations) together online. There are a common internal database of the project for the data input and a portal of presentation of qualified data and images. Goals of KENOM are the harmonisation of numismatic data of the partners, the integration of open linked norm data and the definition and use of a LIDO-based data exchange format. 2012-2015 the project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, now KENOM is operated jointly. The strong technical partner of the project is the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund Göttingen. Today already 13 institutions present more than 33,000 numismatic objects together in the portal <http://www.kenom.de/>.

KENOM has developed lookup mechanisms that read OCRE and CRRO web services, making it easy for curators to link their collections directly to these Linked Open Data systems. The RDF data for OCRE were harvested from KENOM's OAI-PMH using a PHP script I put together yesterday afternoon. Project coordinator, Mario Schlapke, plans to write a more comprehensive post about the process of integrating KENOM with the wider ancient world linked data cloud.