Monday, March 27, 2017

Bibliothèque nationale de France join Nomisma

The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) has joined Nomisma, providing data for more than 2,000 coins of Alexander the Great, Philip III Arrhidaeus, and Lysimachus to PELLA, in time for the Oxford - Paris Alexander Project next week. Since Gallica implements IIIF, I have ingested IIIF image API metadata into Nomisma to make zooming possible. An example can be seen here.



There are now about 20,000 Alexanders in PELLA. With entry of the BnF into the consortium, now five of the most significant collections of ancient coinage contribute Linked Open Data to Nomisma and various related aggregation projects.

Florence Codine provided a concordance spreadsheet of Gallica and PELLA URIs, which I processed with PHP into RDF, extracting additional metadata from OAI-PMH. The script is on Github.

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