Numismatic Linked Open Data and Geographic Analysis

Ethan Gruber / @ewg118 / American Numismatic Society

Numismatic Linked Open Dataand

Geographic Analysis

http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/id/1991.17.10

Mint

http://nomisma.org/id/rome

geo:lat = 41.9geo:long = 12.5

Rome

Findspot (Hoard)

Oliver's Orchard Hoards (near Colchester)

http://nomisma.org/id/olivers_orchard_hoards

http://www.geonames.org/2652618/geo:lat = 51.8917geo:long = 0.903

http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/id/1989.19.4

RRC 204/1 → http://nomisma.org/id/rrc-204.1

RDF Triplestore

Coin Hoards of the Roman Republichttp://numismatics.org/chrr/

RDF

SPARQL

XSLT

KML

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>PREFIX nm: <http://nomisma.org/id/>PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#>

SELECT ?object ?findspot ?lat ?long ?title ?prefLabel WHERE {?object nm:type_series_item <http://nomisma.org/id/rrc-204.1> .?object nm:findspot ?findspot .?findspot geo:lat ?lat .?findspot geo:long ?long .OPTIONAL {?object skos:prefLabel ?prefLabel}OPTIONAL {?object dcterms:title ?title}

}

Above: http://nomisma.org/id/rome Generated from Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic and

Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards RDF

Query by mint or any other property

Hoard Contents: What does geographic distribution say about archaeological context?