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Digital Solutions for European Numismatic Heritage

DigiNUMA is an interdisciplinary project (2021-2023) in Digital Humanities (DH), participatory heritage, semantic computing, museum collections management, and archaeological/numismatic studies addressing challenges in creating, publishing, and analysing archaeological cultural heritage ‘big data’. The project develops an ontological infrastructure and a methodological proof-of-concept model for finely-grained Linked Open Data (LOD) harmonisation across national and international databases that contain archaeological finds data in Finland, the UK, and EU. The temporal focus of the project is on medieval times and Viking age.

Research Question

What new research potential for transnational archaeological/cultural heritage research is unlocked through the creation of a proof-of-concept LOD data model and data service for numismatic data?

Objective

Our goal is to create and test through data analysis a data model for international numismatic data, apply it to Finnish and international archaeological coin collections (the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum), and test/show its usability in Digital Humanities research and in developing semantic web applications for the public.

Research Question

What new research potential for transnational archaeological/cultural heritage research is unlocked through the creation of a proof-of-concept LOD data model and data service for numismatic data?

Datasets

The datasets researched include the Portable Antiquities Scheme in England and Wales database (the British Museum, London, UK), the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds database (the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK) database, Numismatic Collections in the Finnish Heritage Agency’s (FHA) archaeological collections and in the Coin Chamber of the National Museum of Finland, and coin finds data in the Ilppari archaeological public finds reporting service of the FHA and the FindSampo system.

Methods

We develop methods for Digital Humanities analysis and visualization, Semantic Web technologies, and Knowledge Discovery.

Outcomes

The outcomes of the project include a proof of concept linked data model and datasets conforming to it and Nomisma.org ontology for FHA and British Museum collection data, and a data service and portal demonstrator "CoinSampo" based on applying the Sampo model. The CoinSampo system was released on February 28, 2024, in this publication event (in Finnish). The portal is available at

https://coinsampo.ldf.fi

in English and Finnish, and the Linked Open Data service at the Linked Data Finland platform:

https://www.ldf.fi/dataset/coinsampo

Peer reviewed scientific articles related to the project and be found below for referencing to the system.

Wider Importance

DigiNUMA supports ongoing international efforts for creation of transnational DH Cultural Heritage databases, web services, and citizen science archaeology programs. The work contributes to the ongoing DARIAH-EU inftrastructure work, the Pan-European ARIADNEPlus, and the national FIN-CLARIAH programmes that the team participates currently in.

Project Consortium

Our work was supported by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Commission, Aalto University, and University Helsinki, Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH).

Research Team at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University

Advisory Board

The DigiNUMA Advisory Board includes Professor Michael Lewis (British Museum), Dr David Wigg-Wolf (German Archaeological Institute and Nomisma.org), Dr Frida Ehrnsten (National Museum of Finland), Ville Rohiola (Curator at Archaeological Collection, FHA) and Dr Jouni Tuominen (University of Helsinki & Aalto University).


Studying Viking Age dirhems at the Coin Cabinet of the National Museum of Finland. From left to right, Eljas Oksanen, Frida Ehrnsten, Heikki Rantala and an apprentice of the Cabinet. Photo: Eero Hyvönen.

Publications

2024

Eljas Oksanen, Frida Ehrnsten, Heikki Rantala and Eero Hyvönen: Semantic Solutions for Democratising Archaeological and Numismatic Data Analysis. ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 16, no. 4, Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. bib pdf link
Michael Lewis, Eljas Oksanen, Frida Ehrnsten, Heikki Rantala, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen: The Impact of Human Decision-making on the Research Value of Archaeological Data. June, 2024. Submitted for evaluation. bib pdf
Heikki Rantala, Eljas Oksanen, Frida Ehrnsten and Eero Hyvönen: Publishing Numismatic Public Finds on the Semantic Web for Digital Humanities Research – CoinSampo Linked Open Data Service and Semantic Portal. SemDH 2024, First International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities, co-located with ESWC 2024, Hersonissos, Greece, Proceedings, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3724, May, 2024. bib pdf link
Heikki Rantala, Eljas Oksanen, Frida Ehrnsten and Eero Hyvönen: Searching and Analyzing Coin Finds with a Linked Data Based Web Application. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 26 - 30, 2024, Proceedings, Springer, May, 2024. bib pdf
Eero Hyvönen: How to Create a National Cross-domain Ontology and Linked Data Infrastructure and Use It on the Semantic Web. Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, IOS Press, 2024. DOI: 10.3233/SW-243468. bib pdf link
Eero Hyvönen, Eljas Oksanen, Heikki Rantala and Jouni Tuominen: Kansalaistiedettä Helsingin yliopistossa - Löytösampo kokoaa kansalaisten arkeologiset löydöt semanttisessa webissä. 2024. Blogi-kirjoitus. bib pdf link

2023

Eljas Oksanen and Johanna Roiha: Methodological Perspectives for Applying Spatial Point Pattern Analyses to Finnish Iron Age Remote Sending Data. Moving Northward. Professor olker Heyd’s Festschrift as he turn 60, pp. 426-444, The Archaeological Society of Finland, 2023. bib pdf
Eljas Oksanen and Michael Lewis: Evaluating Transformations in Small Metal Finds Following the Black Death. Medieval Archaeology, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 159-186, 2023. bib link
Eero Hyvönen: Creating and Using a National Linked Open Data Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage Applications and Digital Humanities Research: Lessons Learned. DARIAH Annual Event 2023, Budapest, Hungary, abstracts of papers, DARIAH-EU, June, 2023. bib link
Frida Erhnsten, Eljas Oksanen, Heikki Rantala and Eero Hyvönen: DigiNUMA ja Rahasampo – uusi digitaalinen palvelu rahalöydöistä kiinnostuneille. Numismaattinen aikakausilehti, April, 2023. bib pdf link
Eero Hyvönen: How to Create a National Cross-domain Ontology and Linked Data Infrastructure and Use It on the Semantic Web. Programming and Data Infrastructure in Digital Humanities, Book of Abstracts, pp. 7, High Performance Computing Centre, University of Évora, Portugal, March, 2023. bib link
Eero Hyvönen: Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web: Sampo Model and Portal Series. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 729-744, IOS Press, 2023. bib pdf link

2022

Anna Wessman and Eljas Oksanen: Metal-detecting data as citizen science archaeology. Odes to Mika. Professor Mika Lavento s Festschrift as he turns 60 years old (Petri Halinen, Volker Heyd and Kristiina Mannermaa (eds.)), pp. 293-302, The Archaeological Society of Finland, 2022. bib
Eljas Oksanen, Heikki Rantala, Jouni Tuominen, Michael Lewis, David Wigg-Wolf, Frida Ehrnsten and Eero Hyvönen: Digital Humanities Solutions for Pan-European Numismatic and Archaeological Heritage Based on Linked Open Data. DHNB 2022 The 6th Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference, pp. 352-360, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3232, 2022. bib pdf link
Heikki Rantala, Eljas Oksanen and Eero Hyvönen: Harmonizing and Using Numismatic Linked Data in Digital Humanities Research and Application Development: Case DigiNUMA. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2022 Satellite Events, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13384, pp. 26-30, Springer, July, 2022. bib pdf link
Heikki Rantala, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Eero Hyvönen, Ville Rohiola, Eljas Oksanen and Mikko Koho: FindSampo: A Linked Data Based Service for Analyzing and Disseminating Archaeological Finds. 6th Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference, poster paper, book of abstracts, pp. 118-119, March, 2022. bib link
Heikki Rantala, Esko Ikkala, Ville Rohiola, Mikko Koho, Jouni Tuominen, Eljas Oksanen, Anna Wessman and Eero Hyvönen: FindSampo: A Linked Data Based Portal and Data Service for Analyzing and Disseminating Archaeological Object Finds. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2022, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13261, pp. 478-494, Springer, 2022. bib pdf link

2021

Eero Hyvönen, Heikki Rantala, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, Jouni Tuominen, Babatunde Anafi, Suzie Thomas, Anna Wessman, Eljas Oksanen, Ville Rohiola, Jutta Kuitunen and Minna Ryyppö: Citizen Science Archaeological Finds on the Semantic Web: The FindSampo Framework. Antiquity, A Review of World Archaeology, vol. 95, no. 382, pp. e24, Cambridge University Press, August, 2021. bib pdf link

               

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