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\nMany of the coins belonging to the U.Va. Art Museum are in poor condition, but digitization provides access to those coins that are too fragile to be handled by students and scholars of numismatics. In October 2007, funding was received from the University of Virginia Library to work in conjunction with the Art Museum and a Roman Numismatics class taught by Professor John Dobbins in the Classical Art and Archaeology program, and scanning of the coins in the Art Museum commenced shortly thereafter. The coins were scanned at 2000 DPI by Digitization Services, the department that creates and maintains new library content, providing a very fine quality image–one that provides superior detail than what can be seen with standard museum-issued magnifying glasses. Equally important to scanning the coins for preservation is to provide access to the images. The collection was described in Encoded Archival Description (EAD), with several coin-specific adaptations to describe physical attributes such as legends and iconography. This project appears to be unique in its application of EAD to numismatics. In addition to EAD’s capability of describing the physical attributes of each object in the collection, administrative history, essays, and index terms can be encoded in XML to create completely comprehensive metadata for those students and scholars of numismatics to use as a tool in their research.
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MANTIS (MANTIS: A Numismatic Technologies\nIntegration Service) provides access to all 600,000 records for objects in\nthe ANS collection, through a series of new, easy-to-use search screens.\n\nThe new search tool is an open source implementation of several applications\nand standards used in the Library, Archive, and Museum communities,\nincluding Apache Solr for faceted searching and Encoded Archival Description\n(EAD) for representing numismatic metadata. The tool enables users to\ninteract with the ANS collection through keyword searches or by browsing\nand sorting on numerous categorical and physical attributes common to\nnumismatics. This search tool connects individual objects together by these\nsearchable attributes, allowing users to seamlessly navigate from one object\nto its relations.\n\nANS Director Wartenberg explains, “The collections database is the work of a\ngeneration of expert cataloguers, and was originally designed to allow\ncuratorial staff to manage the massive holdings of the Society. MANTIS marks\na huge leap forward in making this work available to the general public in a\nway that is easy to understand for specialist and non-‐specialist alike.\nTogether with DONUM, our bibliographic search tool, the release of MANTIS\nplaces the ANS at the forefront of numismatic research on the World Wide\nWeb.”\n\nThe Database breaks down into 11 Departments, which can be searched as a\nwhole or individually. Approximate totals for each department are as\nfollows:\n\n\n - Greek 100, 000\n - Roman 80,000\n - Byzantine 15,000\n - Islamic 60,000\n - East Asian 45,000\n - South Asian 50,000\n - Medieval 50,000\n - Modern 100,000\n - United States 25,000\n - Latin America 20,000\n - Medals and Decorations 50,000\n\n\nTraditional searches by mint person, date and numismatic categories are\ncatered for, and supplemented with a new map interface. This latter feature,\nstill under development, will eventually allow the user to find coins,\nmedals and banknotes issues around the world by clicking on points on a map.\n\n“The release of the new research tool is an exciting development, not just\nfor the access it provides to our remarkable collection,” notes ANS Deputy\nDirector Andrew Meadows. “It also harnesses an ANS initiative to create\nstable identities for numismatic concepts on the World Wide Web through the\nnomisma.org project. This is most visible at the moment in the mapping\nfunctions that we offer, but will ultimately extend to the creation of other\nexciting new tools.”\n\nThe design of MANTIS is the work of ANS Web Developer Ethan Gruber, working\nin close collaboration with ANS Research Scientist Sebastian Heath.\n\nHeath explains: “The new ANS database is now positioned to become a tool for\nexpressing all the links inherent in each individual coin. We can already\nsee this in the powerful mapping function. Even at this early stage of\ndevelopment users can browse the Greek and Roman departments by geography,\nwith an expanding set of North American mints also coming available. It's\nalready possible to make maps of similar coins, such as those showing Greek\nand Roman deities, and this functionality will become available for more\ncoins as Ethan Gruber continues his work. 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It is designed to capture information as it currently exists in databases deployed by museums and collectors in “real world” situations. It is flexible in that it can represent objects for which only very generic information is known or objects that have been described in detail. It does not mandate a set of required fields.
\nA main goal in the design of NUDS is that it capture the distinctive categories of numismatic data that are fundamental to the discipline. Primary among these is the distinction between obverse and reverse. It is extremely important that numismatists be able to search for the occurence of words or visual motifs on the distinct sides of coins. NUDS also recognizes that the edge of a coin often needs to be separately described. Obverse, reverse, and edge are constituent “parts” of a coin. NUDS can also represent particular concepts that are likewise important to numismatists. The concept “denomination,” whether explicitly assigned at the the time of production or identified by later scholars, applies to almost all officially issued coins. It is not a field that appears in many museum collection systems. Likewise, “axis” - or the orientation of the obverse to the reverse - is important for numismatic study but not often accounted for in non-numismatic databases.
\nThe list that follows presents the current suggested categories of information that NUDS can record. It is not strictly a list of field names nor is it intended to serve as a fully implemented numismatic database. This is particularly the case for generic names that are likely to be repeated for a single object. For example, the list includes the entry “Geography(1,2,3)”. “Geography” provides a placeholder for uncategorized geographic information - e.g., “Attica”. The ”(1,2,3..)” indicates that in an actual database management system (DBMS), it may be necessary to append numerals to each instance of a “Geography” column so as to avoid duplicate column names. Alternately, a one-to-many relationship can be established within a relational database management system. Either representation is suitable in different contexts and both can easily be mapped to NUDS.
\nFinally, it is important to address two limits of NUDS as currently defined. First, NUDS is concerned with the structure of numismatic information but has not yet expanded to define the contents of fields. I.e., NUDS makes no recomendation as to how to represent the metal silver in its records. “Silver”, “argent”, “silber”,”AR”, “Ag” are all acceptable. Second, a column-oriented approach to the representation of numismatic information places limitations on the utility of data. For example, NUDS currently defines a very generic “published” field. This is a “free-text” container and it is likely that its contents will vary considerably across projects. The issue of multiple values for single concepts, such as material or geography, has already been addressed. Both of these issues could be flexibly handled by an XML schema for numismatics, a idea that has been under consideration in the numismatic community.
\nTo facilitate conversation, nomisma.org also maintains a short list of public databases with substantial numismatic content.
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