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Only find coins that can be assigned to a secure findspot can be used for our research and will therefore be published in the ↗ KENOM portal after they have been digitally recorded. KENOM („Kooperative Erschließung und Nutzung der Objektdaten von Münzsammlungen“/“Cooperative development and use of object data from coin collections”) is a collection database for the structured management of metadata of numismatic objects.
Access to digital copies of find coins is made available worldwide and free of charge via an online portal. For example, hoards that were once torn apart and are now located in different collections, can be digitally brought together and evaluated regardless of location.
In the interests of comparability, the systematic recording via KENOM is carried out using standard vocabulary and georeferenced location information, which are essential with regard to statistical evaluations. Internationally common metadata bases are used, which enable uncomplicated data exchange. This allows the object data from various online databases to be linked together using the data exchange format LIDO (“Lightweight Information Describing Objects”).
more about the norm vocabulary ...
This refers to controlled vocabularies that clearly assign and describe people, corporations, geographical areas and factual terms. For example, the word “Mark” can mean not only the German currency Mark but also the pulp (in German Mark) of fruits or historical regions such as the Mark of Brandenburg. In KENOM, the norm vocabulary is used via ↗ DANTE ("DAtendrehscheibe für Normdaten und Terminologien“/“data hub for norm data and terminiologies“). The use of such norm data makes it easier to index collection holdings and ensures comparability across databases.
We create information about the context of the find as find complex entries and existing entries are revised and updated if necessary. This is done via the Numismatic Commission's catalogue of coin finds ↗ Numismatischen Kommission, which is integrated into KENOM.
Across countries, various museums, libraries, universities, monument preservation, archaeology and numismatic institutions are involved in KENOM, which cooperate with each other and further develop KENOM in exchange with other associations, such as ↗ Numid and the Berlin Coin Cabinet ↗ Berliner Münzkabinett.
KENOM offers the possibility of direct linking to databases from numismatics.org, which are managed by the American Numismatic Society ↗ American Numismatic Society. Accordingly, ancient coins can be integrated directly into ↗ OCRE (Online Coins of the Roman Empire) or ↗ CRRO (Coinage of the Roman Republic Online), among others.
Our collected digitization results will also be made available to the public in the foreseeable future on the German Digital Library ↗ Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek and ↗ Europeana portals.
