Showing posts with label numismatics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label numismatics. Show all posts

Saturday, December 29, 2018

Severan Database Project

[First posted in AWOL 21 May 2013, updated 29 December 2018]

Severan Database Project
The Severan Database Project is a collection of three datasets containing historical evidence from the Severan Period (193-235).

Repository File Structure:
# Survey of coin hoards from the Severan Period
/data/hoard_analysis.csv

# Inscriptions mentioning Julia Domna
/data/julia_domna.csv

# Survey of 14 cities from Greece and Asia minor minting under the Severans
/data/provincial_coins.csv

Project Lead: Julie Langford
Associate Professor of Roman History
Department of History,
University of South Florida

Assistant: David J. Thomas, thePortus.com
Instructor of Ancient History and Digital Humanities,
Department of History,
University of South Florida

Graduate Assistant:
Christina Hotalen
NOTE: TBD


This project was originally hosted at http://web3.cas.usf.edu/main/other/severan/. The university page has since been removed. This dataset is an open-source publication of the raw data from that original project.
 

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Launched: Ptolemaic Coins Online

Ptolemaic Coins Online
PCO is a project of the American Numismatic Society co-directed by Dr. Peter van Alfen and Ethan Gruber. The web database, based on the Numishare platform, has been developed by Ethan Gruber, who also oversaw the creation of the necessary Nomisma concepts for the project.
Substantial work in developing PCO has been carried out by Gunnar Dumke of the Institut für Klassische Altertumswissenschaften at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Disnarda Pinilla has provided considerable assistance in organizing material within the ANS collection. Alan Roche and Emma Pratte are responsible for the photographs of ANS coins. Prof. Bernhard Weisser and Dr. Karsten Dahmen have catalogued the material at the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. At the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) Caroline Carrier and Julien Olivier have catalogued the Ptolemaic coins in the collection there. The PCO banner image was created by ANS photographer, Alan Roche.
The ANS press release is here.

Sunday, October 14, 2018

American Numismatic Society Publications Online

 [First posted in AWOL 25 March 2015, updated 14 October 2018]

American Numismatic Society
540 American Numismatic Society publications are now available in the Hathi Trust Digital Library as full-text for free use by the public.
In a sweeping effort to make its older and out-of‐print publications available to the public as Open Access, The American Numismatic Society has partnered with HathiTrust (http://www.hathitrust.org/about). As a result of this partnership scans of nearly 550 ANS titles – including the American Journal of Numismatics, Numismatic Literature, Numismatic Notes and Monographs, and stand-­alone monographs have become fully readable and downloadable to anyone who wants them under a Creative Commons, non-­commercial, attribution, share-­alike license. This means that these ANS publications can be used for personal reading, research, and academic publication just so long as the ANS is cited as the source. Titles currently in the public domain – already have a home on HathiTrust. These volumes were OCR-scanned as part of the Google Books project.

HathiTrust, founded in 2008 by the member universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California, is a large, collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries and publishers that includes content digitized by Google Books and Internet Archive and Microsoft. Millions of volumes are available via HathiTrust’s website (http://www.hathitrust.org). The entire repository can be full-text searched.