Alexander the Great. A Linked Open World
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1355
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Ausonius éditions
- ISBN
- 9782356132352
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This publishes the closing conference proceedings of the Oxford Paris Alexander project (OPAL). This was a joint project with the Bibliotheque nationale de France, funded by the AHRC and the Laboratoire d'excellence Les Passes dans le Present. The project had focussed on linking up the collections of coinage in the name of Alexander the Great in the Oxford and Paris collections in a new Linked Open Data environment. The conference and book explore the possibilities offered by the creation of a large dataset for interdisciplinary research in the fields of economics, monetary history, art history and cultural heritage.
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- Additional information
- Recent years have seen a transformation in the discipline of numismatics as the application of Linked Open Data technology has created an entirely new way to create typologies and catalogue coins online. Key elements have been the creation of the nomisma.org project (of which Meadows was co-founder in 2008) and its vocabularies and ontology; a further key development and proof-of-concept was Meadows' Online Coins of the Roman Empire project, funded by the NEH from 2013-2015. Subsequent projects have built on this approach, including the American Numismatic Society's PELLA on the coinage of Alexander the Great.
The Oxford-Paris Alexander project, of which this volume is the result, had two distinct aims: first to catalogue the coins of Alexander in Paris and Oxford and add them to PELLA; second, to ask what we can do with such resources. Digital Humanities is littered with technically brilliant projects that demonstrate the capacities of the technologies, but fail to ask how these may invigorate old and develop new research questions and agendas. To address this, with Dr Frederique Duyrat (BnF, Paris), I successfully bid to a funding call from the AHRC and the LABEX Pasts in the Present.
Our aim was to ask how to 'walk the digital walk'. The format for discussion was a conference, to which we invited scholars from across the Humanities-Digital divide to explore what new digital tools can deliver. We invited technical specialists to explain the opportunities offered by the technology, and established scholars to share their research agendas. In the middle were series of papers commissioned to apply specific research questions in monetary history, numismatics and cultural heritage protection, to exploit the opportunity offered by PELLA. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first serious attempt to do this, certainly in our field.
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