Category: Workshops

WHEN AND WHERE:

29.05.2024, 13-14.30 CEST (Berlin) / 14.00 -15.30 EEST (Sofia)
Hybrid: Zoom https://shorturl.at/lIKT9
Meeting ID: 850 8237 4902 Passcode: 923756
Auditorium 23, Rectorate, South wing,
SU “St. Kliment Ohridski”

The necessity for handling numerical data in numismatics has increased rapidly in the past twenty years. The introduction of modern measurement techniques and computers has generated vast amounts of such data, which require a sound understanding of the quality and evaluation of this information.

The webinar will discuss the numbers, their digits, and their validity for the daily work. Statistics will be reviewed, and their shortcomings and possibilities will be presented. The principle, hardware and data characteristics of modern experimental techniques, such as the measurement of the electrical conductivity and the XRF-Analysis, will be explained. Finally, the biological and mathematical background of artificial intelligence will be discussed, as well as its shortcomings and then, by all means, promising potential for use in numismatic research.

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ORGANISERS:

At a small international workshop, the CN Team would like to present the preliminary results on natural language processing in coin descriptions and image recognition in numismatics to a selected group of users to gather additional feedback and make improvements.
They also aim to inquire about further needs and ideas from users in order to adapt the tools in the best possible way. Further opportunities for collaboration will also be explored. Wlook forward to welcoming many colleagues at the Academy in Berlin.
The Dressel Lecture by Peter Franz Mittag will conclude the program (https://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-bruch-bulla-bau-die-medaillons-der-severerzeit).

Wednesday, 29.11.2023: BBAW, 10117 Berlin, Unter den Linden 8, room 07W04

13:30–14:00
Coffee
14:00–14:15
Welcome and Introduction
Ulrike Peter (Berlin): Project D4N4
14:15–14:45
NLP for Semantic Search | Data Quality
Karsten Tolle (Frankfurt/M.): NLP for Semantic Search and Data Quality at Corpus Nummorum
14:45–17:20
Image Recognition
Sebastian Gampe (Frankfurt/M.): Image Recognition with CNNs at Corpus Nummorum
Martin Langner (Göttingen): Computational Image Analysis in Classical Archaeology
15:30–16:00
Coffee
Ralph Ewerth (Hannover): Visual Analytics and Image Recognition: the Project iART
Mario Schlapke (Weimar): Questions and Approaches to the Classification of Heavily Barbarized so-called Gaius-Lucius-Denarii on the Basis of Finds from Thuringia
Discussion
17:20–18:30
Transfer and Linking
Jan Köster / Claus Franke (Berlin): Versioning System at Corpus Nummorum and its API
Alejandro Peña (Valencia): Visualization and Services (Shared Tools)
Discussion
19:00–
Dinner: Restaurant Via Nova II, Universitätsstraße 2, 10117 Berlin

Thursday, 30.11.2023: BBAW, 10117 Berlin, Unter den Linden 8, room 07W04
9:15–9:30
Coffee
9:30–11:00
User Perspectives and Experiences
Hristina Ivanova (Zürich): Using Corpus Nummorum in Research
Lily Grozdanova / Julia Tzvetkova (Sofia): Using Corpus Nummorum with Students
Bartosz Awianowicz (Torun): Private collections in Corpus Nummorum and Corpus Nummorum from a private collector’s perspective
Florian Haymann (Frankfurt/M.): Corpus Nummorum and its Use for Coin Trade
Discussion
11:00–11:15
Coffee
11:15–12:30
Undefined, Vague, Uncertain
Manuel Gozalbes (Valencia): Data Uncertainties in Numismatics
Florian Thiery (Mainz): Modeling of Relative and Absolute Dating
Discussion
11:00–11:15
Lunch
14:00–17:00
Networking and Collaboration
Andrew Meadows (Oxford): Corpus Nummorum in the Cosmos of Nomisma and ARCH
Ulrike Peter / Vladimir F. Stolba (Berlin): Problems with “Duplicates”?
Frank Dührkohp (Göttingen): The Integration of Numismatic Data into Research Data Infrastructures
15:15–15:45
Coffee
David Wigg-Wolf (Frankfurt/M.): Different Data Quality in Linked Data Sources
Bernhard Weisser et al. (Berlin): NFDI4objects und die Numismatik
Discussion

18:00–19:15
Peter Franz Mittag (Köln): Bruch, Bulla, Bau: Die Medaillons der Severerzeit (3rd Heinrich Dressel lecture: Gobelin-Saal, Bode-Museum)
19:15–20:30
Reception

The Berlin meeting of the Ancient Coins Counterfeits Scientific Network will occur on the 1st of December, 2023.

The members of ACCSN will meet with numismatists with expertise also in the area of forgeries, who will also attend the Corpus Nummorum project meeting in Berlin (29-30/11/2023). The event will offer exciting insights into methods of forgery and a discussion on further collaboration perspectives and activities.

ACCSN Round Table
Friday, 01.12.2023
Morning Session:
BBAW, 10117 Berlin, Unter den Linden 8, room 07W04
9.30 – 10.00: Welcome Coffee
10.00 ‒ 10.10: ACCSN presentation: Concept and activities
10.10 ‒ 10.30: Forgery techniques and experimental numismatics ‒ examples and results (Jean Hourmouziadis)
10.30 ‒ 10.50: Forgery techniques and experimental numismatics ‒ examples and results (ACCSN team)
10.50 ‒ 11.20: Discussion
11.20 ‒ 12.30: Collaboration and development perspectives and ideas brainstorming
12.30 ‒ 14.00: Lunch break
Restaurant Jolly (Am Kupfergraben 4, 10117 Berlin)
Afternoon Session:
BBAW, 10117 Berlin, Unter den Linden 8, room 07W04
14.00 ‒ 16.00: ACCSN organisational meeting

The ACCSN had the opportunity to organise a workshop as part of the international conference program “10th Joint Meeting of ECFN and Nomisma.org & 2nd BulgNR TOGETHER“.

The panellist presented and elaborated on some experimental numismatic concepts for identifying artificially created worn marks on forged coins and particular case studies.

On the 18th of May 2023, at the Conference Hall of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” the ACCSN organised a seminar discussing different aspects of the topic of ancient coins forgeries.

The lecturers, Prof. NCU, Dr. Habil. Bartosz Awianowicz, Prof. Dr. Dr.Sc. Dilyana Boteva-Boyanova and Stanimir Metodiev, MA, made presentations on the development of the concept of forgeries throughout the centuries, techniques to identify forged objects and specific case studies and had a vivid discussion with the audience of specialists in the area of Numismatics, but also students.

The first workshop of the ACCS Network took place from 29th April to 1st May 2022 at the Archaeological base in Malko Gradishte village, Bulgaria.
During the days of the workshop, under the scientific guidance and expertise of Prof. Dr. Dr.Sc. Ilya Prokopov, the participants were able to explore and test a variety of practices for the identification of forgery techniques.
The international team was involved in intensive discussions and conducted practical experiments, amongst which XRF analyses on test materials.
Together with the colleagues from the ACCS Network from Bulgaria and Germany, specialists from diverse institutions from Bulgaria and abroad attended the workshop, creating thus the opportunity not just to exchange experience but also to extend the ACCS Network. A key aspect of the event was the opportunity for the invited young scholars and students to acquire a new set of skills in the area of numismatics.
On the last day of the work program, the scholars visited important archaeological sites in the region (the Mezek Tomb and the Gluhite kamani rock-cut complex).
The workshop was a successful first event from a series of such planned by the ACCSN.