OXUS-INDUS. A Linked Open Data Resource for research in Central and South Asian Coinages

OXUS-INDUS。

• 批准号: AH/V009648/1
• 负责人: Andrew Meadows
• 金额: $ 24.9万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV009648%2F1
• 关键词: OXUS; INDUS.; Linked; Open; Data

The OXUS-INDUS project is twin-track initiative to push forward the curation of and research into the material culture of Central and South Asia.First, it seeks to produce a much-needed tool for understanding the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek coinage of Central and South Asia at a formative stage of the transfer of monetary technology into this region. Through the creation of a new typology of this coinage by two experts in the field, and the linking to that of multiple, newly catalogued specimens from multiple public collections using established, standards-based technology, it will enable this important body of evidence to be studied as never before, thereby advancing new research agendas. In particular it is hoped that this will allow the study of the archaeology and history of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms to continue its move away from a polarized view of 'Greek' and 'non-Greek' influences to one of cultural hybridity. Numismatic scholarship has generally remained focused on political history, with attempts to link the coins to the very few historical events known from literary sources. The subject is thus long overdue for a decolonizing approach, moving away from the systems created in the 19th century by historians from a European colonial background and returning to the evidence of the coins themselves. The new overview created by the OXUS-INDUS project will allow a reappraisal of the numismatic evidence for the kingdoms in the light of these new approaches and provide a framework for studying and analyzing the coins, which does not rely on knowledge of detailed and technical numismatic arguments. Second, the OXUS-INDUS project seeks to apply recent advances in Linked Open Data (LOD) approaches that have been developed in other branches of numismatics to an important new area. In the fields of Greek and Roman numismatics, such approaches, focused on the implementation of the nomisma.org Knowledge Organization System (KOS), have led to wholesale changes in methods of working, both for Researchers and Curators of Collections. By providing an online framework for the organization of a large, disparate mass of data across multiple collections in multiple countries catalogued in multiple languages, the LOD-based approach has cracked open a rich vein of evidence for use by Economic Historians, Art Historians, Archaeologists and Curators. This opportunity will now be extended to colleagues working with the poorly understood coinages of ancient Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and India. Through collaboration with colleagues in Pakistan, the project will ensure usability for a broad audience beyond the English-speaking world, particularly through the development of a multilingual interface. The OXUS-INDUS project also seeks not only to replicate success in other areas, but also to build on it with a new development. This project will see the creation of a born-digital typology for an ancient coinage, and will also develop a TEI-XSLT-based workflow that will allow the conversion of this digital product simply and cheaply into a printed volume. The standards-based approach, using the widely-accepted Nomisma KOS and the well-established Numishare platform, will also be fully extensible in the future to extend the approach taken in OXUS-INDUS to other coinages from the region, and from different periods.

Oxus-Indus项目是一项双轨计划，旨在推动对中亚和南亚物质文化的管理和研究。首先，它寻求制作一种急需的工具，以在货币技术转移到该地区的形成阶段理解中亚和南亚的格雷科-巴克特里亚和印度-希腊货币。通过由该领域的两位专家创建这种硬币的新类型学，并利用既定的基于标准的技术将来自多个公共收藏的多个新编目的标本与该类型学相联系，它将使这一重要的证据能够得到前所未有的研究，从而推动新的研究议程。特别是，希望这将使对格雷科-巴克特里亚和印度-希腊王国的考古学和历史的研究继续从“希腊”和“非希腊”影响的两极分化的观点转向文化混杂的观点。货币学派一般都把重点放在政治史上，试图将这些硬币与极少数从文学资料中获知的历史事件联系起来。因此，这个主题早就应该采取非殖民化的方式，摆脱19世纪由欧洲殖民背景的历史学家创建的体系，回到硬币本身的证据上。由Oxus-Indus项目创建的新概览将允许根据这些新方法重新评估王国的货币证据，并提供一个研究和分析硬币的框架，这不依赖于详细的和技术上的货币论证的知识。其次，Oxus-Indus项目寻求将其他钱币学分支开发的链接开放数据(LOD)方法的最新进展应用到一个重要的新领域。在希腊和罗马钱币学领域，这种侧重于实施onomisma.org知识组织系统(KOS)的做法，导致研究人员和藏品馆长的工作方法发生了重大变化。通过提供一个在线框架，用于组织以多种语言编目的多个国家的多个收藏的大量不同的数据，基于LOD的方法已经打开了丰富的证据脉络，供经济历史学家、艺术历史学家、考古学家和策展人使用。这个机会现在将扩展到与阿富汗、土库曼斯坦、乌兹别克斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、巴基斯坦和印度这些鲜为人知的古代硬币一起工作的同事。通过与巴基斯坦同事的合作，该项目将确保英语世界以外的广大受众都能使用，特别是通过开发多语种界面。Oxus-Indus项目不仅寻求在其他领域复制成功，而且还在此基础上进行新的发展。该项目将创建一种古代硬币的出生数字类型学，并将开发一个基于TEI-XSLT的工作流程，使这一数字产品能够简单而廉价地转换为印刷卷。基于标准的方法，使用被广泛接受的Nomisma Kos和久负盛名的Numishare平台，在未来也将完全可扩展，将Oxus-Indus所采取的方法扩展到该地区不同时期的其他硬币。