060024 KU Digital Competencies in Numismatics (2025S)

This course will familiarize students with basic digital numismatic skills, including documentation, research, database creation and management, and data analysis and visualization. The bulk of the course will involve hands-on work in small groups, typical of the digital humanities.
Students will explore the available digital numismatic resources (for example NUMiD, MANTIS, and Nomisma) and learn to use them for research. We will learn about the principles of Linked Open Data (LOD), the backbone of most modern digital humanities projects. Students will learn to document and photograph coins "in the field" using readily available technology (smartphone cameras) as well as methods of data visualization and statistical analysis using R (histograms; box-and-whisker plots).
Once students are familiar with basic digital numismatic methods and the available resources, we will go "under the hood" to engage with the data structures that underlie these resources. Students will learn to create, use, and maintain databases for the purpose of research and publication by participating first-hand in the digitization of the Central Card File (the department’s collection of over 1 million file cards containing information on coins, primarily from auction catalogues). To this end, we will also learn to use AI-assisted OCR (Artificial Intelligence-assisted Optical Character Recognition) software, which allows the computer to "read" the written information as it scans the cards.

Bitte besuchen Sie unsere allgemeine Vorbesprechung zum Semesterbeginn am Montag, dem 3.3.2025, um 16:30 Uhr im Hörsaal des Instituts für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190 Wien, um weitere Informationen zu unseren Lehrveranstaltungen und Studienangeboten zu erhalten.