Has anyone else ever done their own project derived from Numista?
If you have, please let me know how you went about it.
I would love to do exactly that to showcase my collection - & to create an educational resource about the British Empire & the British Commonwealth in the process.
Working on the Guernsey section of numista prompted me to finish an article on Guernsey notes which had been half written in a drawer for nearly 20 years [we are talking handwritten in ink on real paper here!]. After it is published I will add an unabridged version to my website - does that count!
Working on the Guernsey section of numista prompted me to finish an article on Guernsey notes which had been half written in a drawer for nearly 20 years [we are talking handwritten in ink on real paper here!]. After it is published I will add an unabridged version to my website - does that count!
What I mean is you can clone Numista - then if you have the technical skill, you can customise it to remove references to Numista, & to change the colouring.
Working on the Guernsey section of numista prompted me to finish an article on Guernsey notes which had been half written in a drawer for nearly 20 years [we are talking handwritten in ink on real paper here!]. After it is published I will add an unabridged version to my website - does that count!
There were none before I did so. I also added a few pictures from some of my coins. There is more work on that page to be done, I'll probably do that in the upcoming weeks or so.
As you have a lot of specific knowledge on coins, you can add that to existing Wiki pages where it makes sense or create a new page, with links to specific Numista pages where it makes sense.
You can also use your knowledge to improve specific Numista pages and/or upload better pictures when the present pictures are small and/or with bad colouring.
When you have a large size image with many pixels, then it is not necessary to crop them to make them smaller in size. Numista does that automatically, the more pixels the better, for use on larger monitor screens. However, to reduce of memory size, with the free program Irfanview one can downsize jpg files a lot, by using the ‘save as'-function with for example 50% or 60% quality (which is still really good), that way the size from multiple MB generally drops to below 1 MB of memory. That helps people to download the pictures fast when they view a page, while still getting a great view on what the coin looks like in detail.
Edo
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
I would love to do exactly that to showcase my collection - & to create an educational resource about the British Empire & the British Commonwealth in the process.
Aidan.
You have got a good idea here.
I don't think I have come across such a website on banknotes, and I haven't looked for one on coins.
BCNumismatics
What I mean is you can clone Numista - then if you have the technical skill, you can customise it to remove references to Numista, & to change the colouring.
Aidan.
I think it would be quicker for you to hand-code it from scratch and to use tables to store data and images. You could probably do it quite quickly in wordpress. Make sure to allow it to work on a mobile, apparently lots of people view the web on their mobiles these days.
I figure that numista is fed from quite a sophisticated back-end database [my knowledge on web stuff stops at html], more like a forum structure than a website. And unlikely to be 'cloneable'.
Based on my free time I am working on a mini project only with my data. I export my data into excel, then upload to a on-premise SQL server database, then doing some enrichment. Also added few custom columns. Once it's done, future plan is to find a free BI visualization tool and have some custom dashboards.
“Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”
Working on the Guernsey section of numista prompted me to finish an article on Guernsey notes which had been half written in a drawer for nearly 20 years [we are talking handwritten in ink on real paper here!]. After it is published I will add an unabridged version to my website - does that count!
Impressive Hibernia
Peer review currently, then scheduled for Coin News, likely November.
Based on my free time I am working on a mini project only with my data. I export my data into excel, then upload to a on-premise SQL server database, then doing some enrichment. Also added few custom columns. Once it's done, future plan is to find a free BI visualization tool and have some custom dashboards.
Very impressive,!as to free BI, wouldn’t PowerBI do in your case. I figure even if you have a student account, you could access the cloud version.
what kind Of enrichment do you do and what would you like to get out of a BI dashboard that you don’t get from a Numista dashboard?
Based on my free time I am working on a mini project only with my data. I export my data into excel, then upload to a on-premise SQL server database, then doing some enrichment. Also added few custom columns. Once it's done, future plan is to find a free BI visualization tool and have some custom dashboards.
Very impressive,!as to free BI, wouldn’t PowerBI do in your case. I figure even if you have a student account, you could access the cloud version.
what kind Of enrichment do you do and what would you like to get out of a BI dashboard that you don’t get from a Numista dashboard?
Thanks.
I have already explored Power BI and unfortunately don't have student account, then tried Tableau that also 14-day trial only the desktop version (Online is an option still I have)
And on the enrichment, it basically as highlighted in the picture below. Added a column ‘Coin’ by removing extra information. Then added Obverse and Reverse (manual entry), Year did a coalesce (means if primary year is not available pick the next possible one), composition data use a case statement to granularize. (For example, if 95% Copper and 5 % any other material selected as copper only). Now I have added many Custome columns in base table not yet brought to the final view like my own tags (Person, building, Animals, Birds, King, Queen…. etc) so that I can display custom charts. few more on pipeline
Feel free to suggest if you know any free visualization tools and any other ideas, that helps.
“Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”
Thinking of starting a coin channel on Youtube where I show case my collections and “educate” people about the history of British and New Zealand coins and banknotes. However my Prince channel does not have many views bit over 300 subscribers and a lot of loyal comments with every video.
Also I do the occasional thread here, like my steel wheels one based around some modern sets of coins, mostly made out of muck metals from less developed and less known countries.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Thinking of starting a coin channel on Youtube where I show case my collections and “educate” people about the history of British and New Zealand coins and banknotes. However my Prince channel does not have many views bit over 300 subscribers and a lot of loyal comments with every video.
Also I do the occasional thread here, like my steel wheels one based around some modern sets of coins, mostly made out of muck metals from less developed and less known countries.
Sharing your knowledge on YouTube is a great idea! Years ago I experimented stacking AU Euro-coins (that I received as change) edge to edge.
The results I shared in 3 YouTube videos, going from challenging (first video) to very challenging (second video) to needing extreme patience and very stable hands (third video):
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
I would love to do exactly that to showcase my collection - & to create an educational resource about the British Empire & the British Commonwealth in the process.
Aidan.
You have got a good idea here.
I don't think I have come across such a website on banknotes, and I haven't looked for one on coins.
BCNumismatics
What I mean is you can clone Numista - then if you have the technical skill, you can customise it to remove references to Numista, & to change the colouring.
Aidan.
I think it would be quicker for you to hand-code it from scratch and to use tables to store data and images. You could probably do it quite quickly in wordpress. Make sure to allow it to work on a mobile, apparently lots of people view the web on their mobiles these days.
I figure that numista is fed from quite a sophisticated back-end database [my knowledge on web stuff stops at html], more like a forum structure than a website. And unlikely to be 'cloneable'.
As long as we clone Numista we might as well create a new linguistic version, it will eventually become international and universal. German and Italian are in progress.
