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First Digital Object Identifiers Minted for ANS Digital Library Items
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First Digital Object Identifiers Minted for ANS Digital Library Items
By Ethan Gruber

Several weeks ago, the ANS migrated an older, circa 2002 TEI ebook on the Taranto 1911 hoard, authored by John Kroll and Sebastian Heath, into our Digital Library. The original TEI file and subsequent updates have been loaded into our TEI Github repository. The updates follow transcription precedents that we have set in older ANS-published printed monographs as part of the Mellon-funded Open Humanities Book Program: relevant places, objects, people, etc. have been linked to entities in LOD systems, such as Nomisma.org. All of the objects within this hoard (itself linked to IGCH 1864) are in the British Museum and linked to their URIs. Upon…

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Full Run of The Colonial Newsletter Now Open Access
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Full Run of The Colonial Newsletter Now Open Access
By Andrew Reinhard

Courtesy of the American Numismatic Society (ANS), the Newman Portal now features the Colonial Newsletter (CNL) from 1960 to 2015…

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Newman Numismatic Portal Opens
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Newman Numismatic Portal Opens
By David Hill

The Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) is now live and open to the general public at NewmanPortal.org. Funded by the Eric…

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On Open Access
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On Open Access
By Andrew Reinhard

Why the American Numismatic Society is Open Access . . . and why your institution, learned society, publisher, etc., should…

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Identifying Roman Coins on Micropasts
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Identifying Roman Coins on Micropasts
By Matthew Wittman

Micropasts is a web platform that hosts crowd-sourced collaborative research projects focused on archaeology, history, and heritage. The admirable goal of…

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NEH-Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Project
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NEH-Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Project
By Matthew Wittman

The American Numismatic Society has been chosen as one of ten publishers to participate in the Humanities Open Book project, a…

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Real Currency in Virtual Worlds
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Real Currency in Virtual Worlds
By Andrew Reinhard

Coins and video games were connected for the first time  with the arrival of Computer Space (1971) and Pong (1972), the first…

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