Presented in the Scholars' Lab, November 20, 2013, for GIS Day

1. Numismatic Linked Open Data
and
Geographic Analysis
Ethan Gruber / @ewg118 / American Numismatic Society

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

3. Mint
Rome
http://nomisma.org/id/rome
geo:lat = 41.9
geo:long = 12.5
Findspot (Hoard)
Oliver's Orchard Hoards (near Colchester)
http://nomisma.org/id/olivers_orchard_hoards
http://www.geonames.org/2652618/
geo:lat = 51.8917
geo:long = 0.903

5. http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/id/1989.19.4
RRC 204/1 → http://nomisma.org/id/rrc-204.1

7. Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic
http://numismatics.org/chrr/
RDF
RDF Triplestore
SPARQL
XSLT
KML

8. 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}
}

9. Query by mint or any other property
Above: http://nomisma.org/id/rome
Generated from Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic and
Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards RDF

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