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Twin-Track计划，旨在推动和研究中亚和南亚的物质文化的策划和研究。首先，它试图生产出一种急需的工具，以理解中亚和南亚的Graeco-Bactrian和Indo-Greek在该地区转移到该地区的形成性阶段。通过该领域的两位专家创建了这种造币的新类型，以及与多个新的公共收藏品中使用基于标准的技术从多个公共收藏中分类的标本的链接，它将使这一重要证据从未像以前一样从未研究过，从而推进了新的研究议程。特别是希望这将允许研究Graeco-Bactrian和Indo-Greek王国的考古学和历史，以继续从“希腊”和“非格里克”影响的两极分化的观点转变为文化杂交之一。钱币奖学金一般一直集中在政治历史上，试图将硬币与文学资料中知道的很少的历史事件联系起来。因此，该主题早就该非殖民化的方法了，从欧洲殖民地背景中的历史学家脱离了19世纪创造的系统，并返回硬币本身的证据。 Oxus-Indus项目创建的新概述将根据这些新方法来重新评估王国的数值证据，并为研究和分析硬币提供了一个框架，这不依赖于详细和技术数值论点的知识。其次，Oxus-Indus项目旨在应用在其他数值分支机构中开发的链接开放数据（LOD）方法的最新进展，以将其推向一个重要的新领域。在希腊和罗马数字学领域，这种方法着重于实施nomisma.org知识组织系统（KOS），导致了工作方法的批发变化，无论是针对收集的研究人员和策展人。通过为在多种语言中分类的多个国家中的多个收藏中的大量数据组织提供在线框架，基于LOD的方法已经开辟了丰富的证据，以供经济历史学家，艺术史学家，考古学家，考古学家和策展人使用。现在，这个机会将扩展到与古老的阿富汗，土库曼斯坦，乌兹别克斯坦，塔吉克斯坦，巴基斯坦和印度的知识造成的同事一起工作。通过与巴基斯坦的同事合作，该项目将确保超越英语世界以外的广泛受众的可用性，尤其是通过开发多语言界面。 Oxus-Indus项目还旨在在其他领域复制成功，而且还以新的发展为基础。该项目将为古老的硬币创建一个数字类型学，还将开发基于TEI-XSLT的工作流程，从而使该数字产品简单而便宜地转换为印刷量。基于标准的方法，使用广泛接受的提名人KOS和良好的Numishare平台，将来也将完全扩展，以将Oxus-Indus的方法扩展到该地区和不同时期的其他造币。