Wikidata:Property proposal/Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID
Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier of a coin in the Online Coins of the Roman Empire platform, with numbering based on the Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) series published by Spink & Son |
|---|---|
| Represents | Online Coins of the Roman Empire (Q24577239) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | coin (Q41207) |
| Allowed values | [1-9][0-9]{0,3}(\([1-9]\))?(\.[a-z]{0,3})?(\.[0-9]+[A-Z]{0,1})? |
| Example 1 | Denarius of Otho, Cohen 15 type (Q100319648) → 1(2).ot.11 |
| Example 2 | denarius of Philip I with Aequitas (Q50332042) → 4.ph_i.240 |
| Example 3 | denarius of Gordian III with Venus Victrix (Q50332013) → 4.gor_iii.131 |
| Source | http://numismatics.org/ocre/ |
| External links | Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt]. |
| Planned use | I personally plan to progressively add a few hundred coin types, which are interesting for me, but of course the property may be used by any researcher or collector interested in Roman Imperial coinage. |
| Number of IDs in source | 41713 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Formatter URL | http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.$1 |
| See also | Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID (P4455) |
| Applicable "stated in"-value | Online Coins of the Roman Empire (Q24577239) |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
| Wikidata project | WikiProject Numismatics (Q10858447) |
Motivation[edit]
The Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) platform provides identifiers for Roman Imperial coins using a numbering system based on the Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) series published by Spink & Son. This is arguably the most used standard reference for the identification and classification of Roman Imperial coin types. OCRE reflects the typology described in RIC, but it may be updated with additional coin types. OCRE/RIC IDs may be and are currently used by both museum curators/archaeologists or coin collectors/dealers and represent one of the main standards for the description of Roman Imperial coinage. (Full disclosure: I have no relationships with the OCRE project, I'm just a coin collector using it frequently.) Some aliases of the property may be: OCRE coin ID, OCRE ID, Roman Imperial Coinage ID, RIC coin ID, RIC ID. Notice that I'm not a regex expert: here you can find a few URL examples that should work with my proposal, but feel free to improve it:
- http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.1A
- http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.ss.98
- http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.10.afr.3819
- http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.530A
- http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).cl.114
FedericoMorando (talk) 23:57, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Support --Epìdosis 15:40, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
Notified participants of WikiProject Ancient Rome
- Support --*Treker (talk) 15:47, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
- I don't have any serious objections, but I'd like to know if there are any issues between this cataloging system & other widely-used systems. (And even if there are, this may not be grounds for objecting to its adoption.) -- Llywrch (talk) 01:03, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not aware of any particular issue, because OCRE as such is not a widely used standard, but it is essentially the machine readable (linked data) version of RIC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Imperial_Coinage which is instead the main reference for Roman imperial coins. FedericoMorando (talk) 20:51, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
- Support. In the near future we should also look to add the others online projects supported by the American Numismatic Society, they are quite useful. --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 11:21, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
- Support. --Romulanus (talk) 11:04, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
@FedericoMorando, Epìdosis, *Treker, Llywrch, Jahl de Vautban, Romulanus: 
Done Now Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID (P9645). --Lymantria (talk) 18:07, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks to everybody! --FedericoMorando (talk) 08:07, 11 June 2021 (UTC)