Longest technical blog post in a long time: using Natural Language Processing and Wikidata to improve searchability in numismatic projects. It is accompanied by slides from Friday's talk. Look for the video on YouTube soon. #classicsbluesky #LODLAM #lawdi numishare.blogspot.com/2026/01/impr...
Added "Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi" to "Very Clean URIs": wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Very_clean_U... #DigiClass #DigitalClassicist. #LAWDI
The Department of Classics at the University of Cologne is the newest member of the Nomisma.org consortium, providing the first 100+ of their 12,000 coin collection to Ptolemaic and Seleucid Coins Online. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/10/depa... #classicsbluesky #lawdi #LODLAM
The Art Institute of Chicago joins the Nomisma #LOD cloud, providing more than 200 Roman coins to Online Coins of the Roman Empire (with #IIIF and public domain licenses). numishare.blogspot.com/2025/07/art-... #lawdi #LODLAM #classicsbluesky
The American Numismatic Society has added almost 200 coins to Levantine Coins Online. Almost half of all Samarian coin types (published in March) in the project are illustrated with at least one coin in the ANS collection. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/07/sama... #classicsbluesky #lawdi #lodlam
Geeking out in front of two computers.
@paregorios.bsky.social and I rocking an impromptu @isawnyu.bsky.social DH Brooklyn session. He’s mumbling incoherently about coordinate systems in QGIS and I’m exclaiming randomly about early human figures. Good times. #lawdi #dh
Two NEH sponsored institutes were so crucial to my education that I've used the training to teach hundreds of students over the last decade, and trained 1000s in critical thinking with digital technologies. NEH impacts go far beyond the researchers + initial audience. #LAWDI #MSUdai
A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map spans west to east: Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula to the Ganges deltaand north to south: Scandinavia to the central Arabian peninsula.
Last Week in Pleiades (24 February - 3 March 2025)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 44 new and 136 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Matthew Clark, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling […]
[Original post on botsinbox.net]
Updated Pleiades gazetteer RDF/TTL export for 2027-03-03:
20 new and 66 updated places.
Corresponding data: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.dataset...
#LOD #LAWDI
Largest tranche of Greek numismatic data published to the Nomisma.org #SPARQL endpoint in 5+ years. Stay tuned for major announcement. #classicsbluesky #lawdi #LODLAM
Fantastic news: our project is joining the Linked Open Data cloud! Many thanks to @ewg118.bsky.social for making this possible!
#numismatics #lawdi #LODLAM
Thanks to an export from @gordien3a.bsky.social, almost 5000 coin hoards of the Roman Empire have been linked to about 14000 coin types in OCRE, greatly expanding geographic visualization, from Hadrian's Wall to India. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/02/coin... #lawdi #LODLAM #classicsbluesky
A map of part of Israel with points showing the locations where coins have been found in excavations or other occurrences.
Dozens of excavation coins of Yehud Medinata have been added to Levantine Coins Online (from KAMAT and the Israel Antiquities Authority), making broader geographic distribution visualization and analysis possible. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/02/exca... #lawdi #classicsbluesky
19 Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins from Harvard Art Museums have been added into BIGR. numishare.blogspot.com/2024/11/harv... #LODLAM #lawdi #classicsbluesky
Screen shot of output of curl command showing redirect to get turtle serialized rdf of 'snake'.
Iterating access to Pompeii LOD by adding Turtle-serialized RDF access. Either via the api at api.p-lod.org/id/snake.ttl or by content negotiation to api.p-lod.org/id/snake . See attached screen cap for response to: curl -v -L -H 'Accept: text/turtle' 'https://api.p-lod.org/id/snake #lod #lawdi 🏺
Fairly major addition to the Pompeii LOD (P-LOD) CSV files. "concepts_depicted_where.csv" is an easily imported/simplified listing of where "concepts" appear on wall-painting at the site. >21K records. See github.com/p-lod/p-lod-... . p-lod.org for info on where the data comes from. #pompeii #lawdi
I'll continue to profess my undying love for #LAWDI until the day I die <3
@tmtn.bsky.social is in the house! #lawdi (which is old school but still meaningful in context)
Why haven't more museums done this? @pennmuseum collections data available for download #lawdi http://bit.ly/17MNwSf
Report on first Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI) from @sebhth and @paregorios, @JD_PhD www.niso.org/apps/group_public/downlo... #lawdi
