The School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, is pleased to announce the launch of the website: Celtic Coin Index Digital (CCID). The CCID is an online archive that provides access to one of the world’s largest datasets of Iron Age coins in Britain: the Celtic Coin Index (CCI). The CCI has been housed in the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford since 1964. The paper card index now holds nearly 85,000 records of around 68,000 specimens of Iron Age coins – these cards and their related images and data are now available on the CCID website.

Iron Age Coins In Britain (IACB) brings Linked Open Data to British Celtic Coinage

Ancient British Coins (ABC) is the most comprehensive reference book for the typology of the Iron Age coins of Britain. ABC catalogues 999 types of coins found in Britain from around the early to mid-2nd century BC through the 1st century AD. The earliest issues were imported to Britain from the Continent, but they were shortly thereafter minted locally, remaining in circulation even after Roman occupation.
Iron Age Coins in Britain (IACB) is now available as a digital research tool that provides access to an edited ABC online. IACB is made possible by stable numismatic identifiers and linked open data methodologies established by the Nomisma.org project. IACB is built on the numbering system created by the Ancient British Coins (ABC) series published in 2010, however, some aspects of this typology have been changed (e.g. descriptions, spellings).
To the IACB website.

Classifications and Representations for Networks. From types and characteristics to linked open data for Celtic coinages / Klassifikationen und Repräsentationen im Netz. Von Typen und Merkmalen zu linked open data bei keltischen Münzserien

ClaReNet is a cooperative project of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission (German Archaeological Institute) and the Big Data Lab, (Goethe University Frankfurt). It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part to the programme “Förderung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben zur theoretischen, methodischen und technischen Weiterentwicklung der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften” (Research and development projects on the further theoretical, methodical and technical development of the Digital Humanities), and will run for three years from 1st February 2021 to 31st January 2024.
The classification of archaeological finds and their representation are shaped by various object epistemological approaches and changes of medium. With ever increasing digitisation, there are now new possibilities of classification, e.g. thanks to methods of automatic image recognition, as well as the representation of finds on the web with linked open data. Using three examples of Celtic coin series that were each chosen to address particular research questions and problems, ClaReNet will test the possibilities and limits of new methods of classification and representation. To this end, traditional approaches of typification and the recording of attributes in numismatics and archaeology will be compared with IT-based methods of classification, including deep learning.
An extendable virtual union catalogue, Online Celtic Coinage (occ.dainst.org), will be set up for the coin series to be studied. The catalogue will link to publicly accessible online collections, following the paradigm of portals based on the vocabulary and ontology of nomisma.org, such as Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE).
The work processes will be accompanied by a science and technology study that will document the production and circulation of knowledge, as well as instigate reflection on changes in cognitive processes resulting from the use of digital tools and algorithms. This blog will present news and videos, and a reusable wiki will be set up for the project. ClaReNet will promote an interdisciplinary dialogue to sound out the potential and limits of systematic automation for methods of classification and representation in numismatics and archaeology.

Funding body
Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Förderkennzeichen: 01 UG2126A