A big Thank You! to the PROCOPEplus programme of the Ambassade de France en Allemagne and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for funding our workshop in Orléans on 30/31 January 2025.
Following a preliminary online meeting in October 2024, 17 participants from France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Guernsey, Switzerland and the United Kingdom met for two days at the Centre International Universitaire pour la Recherche (Hôtel Dupanloup).
The immediate aim of the meeting was to set up a consortium to pursue an application for European funding to develop the portal Online Celtic Coinage (OCC), as well as to consider how existing projects and resources can be linked together and incorporated as independent modules to valorise and increase the impact of OCC, at the same time increasing their own visibility. Further discussion focussed on the flexible reference data model that is required to cover such a range of disparate coinages, as well as the necessary additions to the core controlled vocabulary and ontology to cover the enormous variety of very disparate coinages that are to be incorprated into the portal.
OCC will follow the paradigm of existing portals such as Moneta Iberica (MIB) and Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE), and be fully incorporated into the numismatic linked open data world of Nomisma.org. It will bring together coins from museums and collections, as well as coin finds and material known only from literature, incorporating contextual, metallurgical and geodata to provide comprehensive access to a body of data of great significance for our understanding of a formative phase of the development of modern Europe.
Many thanks to all particpants for your contributions, to Sylvia Nieto-Pelletier for the invitation to Orléans, and to the team at the Centre International Universitaire pour la Recherche (Hôtel Dupanloup) for hosting us. And Especially to the Ambassade de France en Allemagne and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for the funding!
Participating institutions
AOROC, UMR 8546 CNRS, PSL
Archäologische Staatssammlung München
Archéosciences Bordeaux, UMR 6034 CNRS-université Bordeaux Montaigne
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Big Data Lab, Frankfurt
Craham, UMR 6273, CNRS-Université de Caen Normandie
Culture and Heritage, States of Guernsey
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Goethe Universität Frankfurt
INRAP
Inventar der Fundmünzen der Schweiz
IRAMAT-CEB, UMR 7065 CNRS-université d’Orléans
Musée cantonal d’archéologie et d’histoire Lausanne
National Museum, Prague
Universität Leipzig
Université Jean-Moulin-Lyon-III
University of Oxford
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