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collaborative project to provide stable digital linked open data representations of numismatic concepts

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Basic information

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(P34)?Naming:	Nomisma
(P1266)?Abbreviation:	—
(P724)?Digest:	Nomisma.org is an international, collaborative project to provide stable digital representations of numismatic concepts according to the principles of Linked Open Data (LOD). These take the form of HTTP URIs that also provide access to reusable information about those concepts, along with links to other resources. The Nomisma.org community maintains a formalized RDF Ontology and a data model for encoding concepts, coins, typologies, hoards, and other types of numismatic objects as LOD.Since 2010, the nomisma.org project has been hosted and financially supported by the American Numismatic Society in New York. It was founded by Andrew Meadows, then deputy director of the Society, and Sebastian Heath, its data scientist. The current Principal Developer of the Nomisma project is Ethan Gruber, Director of Data Science at the ANS.The information made available by Nomisma.org has been provided by a wide community of scholars and institutions. All concepts published by Nomisma.org domain are openly accessible with a CC-BY license. See the Datasets page for further license statements for partner contributions to the Nomisma.org LOD ecosystem.
(P887)?URL:	https://nomisma.org/
(P121)?Genre classification:	Ontology
(P15)?Medientyp:	Online resource
(P608)?Field of knowledge:	Numismatics, economic history, material culture, sigillography
(P936)?Object types:	Coin, Creator, Seal stamp, seal
(P984)?Object type properties:	Locality, Material, Quality, chronological dating, quality, source

Number of integrated items

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(P613)?Number of integrated items:	100 Standard designation(s)

Contact

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(P845)?Creator:	—
(P518)?Technically realized by:	—
(P206)?Publisher:	BBAW | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, British Museum, German Archaeological Institute, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Paris: Bibliothèque National de France, University of Oxford
(P153)?Postal address:	—
(P722)?Email address:	mailto:David.Wigg-Wolf@dainst.de

Methodology

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(P280)?Variant:	Data curation, Qualitative analysis, Standardization
(P575)?Design features:	Standardized vocabulary with rules that can only be changed by an authorized committee
(P902)?Methodology:	Based on current technical terms, The technical terms have a theoretical concept
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource
(P1000)?Organisational structure:	Changes can only be made by professional administrators
(P999)?Sustainability:	The project is long-term, permanently supported by an organization
(P942)?Number of hierarchy levels:	4
(P900)?Completeness:	Open for growth, completeness cannot be achieved

Version

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(P18)?Language:	English, French, German
(P1152)?Date of first publication:	2015
(P222)?Date of publication:	2025
(P939)?Versioning:	The work is available in individually designated versions

Cross concordances

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(P898)?External matching:	—
(P573)?Target group:	Citizen Science, Museum, Research project, Researcher

Documentation

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(P382)?Specifications:	documentation - URL: https://nomisma.org/ontology
(P978)?External tutorial:	—
(P180)?License:	CC BY-SA 3.0

Provision of data

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(P940)?Technology:	RDF database
(P125)?Status of possesio:	Complete download possible, Search results partially visible in online interface
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource
(P937)?Referencing method:	Uniform Resource Identifier
(P903)?Data format:	HTML, JSON, RDF/SKOS-XML, Turtle
(P923)?API endpoint URL:	https://nomisma.org/apis/reconcile
(P941)?SPARQL endpoint URL:	http://nomisma.org/query
(P995)?Services offered:	—
(P950)?Cite as:	nomisma.org, 2025, URL: https://nomisma.org/

Dataset editing

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(P1302)?Dataset editing:	Anne Purschwitz