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Linked Data Numismatics

Coins as portable archives.

A working sketch for bringing the American Numismatic Society's MANTIS collection into archAIology: object records, mint geographies, iconography, inscriptions, authorities, hoards, and linked-data graph trails through Nomisma and Pelagios.

Dataset Profile

MANTIS as an archaeological data layer

The attached VoID files describe the ANS search endpoint as a MANTIS dataset published with an Open Database License. The same collection can be read as human-facing search results, Atom/RSS feeds, individual NUDS/XML records, RDF/XML, JSON-LD, Turtle, KML, geoJSON, Nomisma RDF dumps, and Pelagios annotations.

98,528VoID documents listed
10Nomisma RDF dump pages
10Pelagios RDF dump pages
ODbLOpen data license
Graph Model

Three ways into the same coin

Object record

NUDS and collection IDs

Use ANS identifiers for object pages and structured NUDS/XML, then connect record fields to chronology, inscriptions, materials, departments, and physical measurements.

Numismatic concepts

Nomisma RDF

Normalize mints, authorities, denominations, materials, hoards, and types against stable numismatic URIs so coins can be compared across collections.

Places and annotation

Pelagios links

Use place annotations to align coins with gazetteers and map layers: mint, findspot, subject place, issuing region, and movement through collections.

Search Workbench

Jump into ANS search

Enter a keyword and open MANTIS results directly. This keeps archAIology as the interpretive layer while ANS remains the source of record.

Feed Sketch

Recent collection records

Attempting Atom feed
Build Next

Research tools this page can grow into

Mint map

Render ANS mint geoJSON beside Pleiades and ToposText layers already used in the site.

Authority timeline

Stack rulers, civic authorities, dynasties, and coin types into a sortable chronological band.

Iconography index

Cluster obverse and reverse types by deity, animal, object, inscription, and political message.

Linked-data export

Let selected objects export as CSV, JSON-LD starter sets, or SPARQL-friendly URI lists.

Sources: local ANS VoID RDF files from pelagios.void.rdf and nomisma.void.rdf; ANS MANTIS search; ANS API documentation. Data belongs to the American Numismatic Society and is made available under the terms stated by ANS.