Grow the integration with other numismatic services

Hello,

A third of you selected "Grow the integration with other numismatic services" as one of the priorities of Numista evolution for 2020 in the recent survey. I would be interested to know what you have in mind. Which services would you like Numista to integrate with? For which purpose?

Some proposals:

• Other coin catalogues: NGC, PCGS, Nomisma, Colnect, uCoin, Numicanada...
  Linking from Numista to these catalogues might be interesting, as each may bring additional or different data (previously suggested here).
  
• Auction houses and online dealers: Heritage Auctions, CGB... or aggregators like NumisBids, Sixbid...
  Some integration already exist for 2 purposes: 1. links to see the coins for sell on some partner websites; 2. use the data of past sales to define the value of coins.
  
• Export/Import collection with competing services: Colnect, uCoin, Coin Mate
  
• Cross-projects with other websites/institutions/communities, maybe to improve knowledge about engravers, mints, or other numismatic topics.
  
• Collection insurance
  
• Links with social media or other communities, where you may share about your collection
  
• Develop further the Numista API
  
• Take part into the linked open data initiative, connecting our mints, rulers, metals, etc. to repository like Nomisma, Wikidata, the Virtual International Authority File...
  
• ...
  

As there is not much info we can dig up from competitive sites, I don't think that should even be an option, moreover when we proven that they have been stealing pictures from us.

Some social media connections would be probably an good option, or partnerships with online dealers.

I also think that sites with the same profile don't bring any worth too us.
If it’s a site specializing in certain regions or types it would be different.

Auction houses would be great for rare and exotic stuff that members are unlikely to own or register on Numista

Import of competitor’s site collections yes, export no wouldn't we want more new members instead of losing them

Cross projects sounds nice but I wouldn't know how this would function beyond single personal instances.

Links to social media only if the site is not flooded with those damn tracking icons and other crap from the Sugarmountain robot and Co.

Taking part in real numismatic projects would be very nice but as Numista is now I don't think we are equipped for solid scientific stuff. We would at least need to be more like a Wiki with stringent sourcing of everything we put on coin sheets etc. (and that's not an easy task).

NGC is just using the numismaster data from Krause...

For me, definitely the last point: open databases and repositories, which goes hand in hand with cross projects with other institutions.

We can't really talk about integration with anything without having implemented an API. After we have an API, integration with everything else would be a trivial task. So let's work smart not hard. If you need any help on this just ask and we can help.

PS: and why not, maybe this can start with some data quality operations over numista database

Quote: "Xavier"​Hello,
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​A third of you selected "Grow the integration with other numismatic services" as one of the priorities of Numista evolution for 2020 in the recent survey. I would be interested to know what you have in mind. Which services would you like Numista to integrate with? For which purpose?
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​Yes.

Cross-linking with other coin catalogues certainly sounds interesting. I'd start with NGC as it's the closest thing there is to Krause's official database. Cross-linking with Colnect would be interesting, too - I often have both sites open at the same time. Though, the sites' catalog organization is somewhat different and would require some kind of remapping of countries/issuers and types vs sub-types. Oh, and I doubt Amir would have any interest in providing links to Numista or any other site he considers a competitor.

Being able to import collection from competing services would make the transition easier and attract new members, but it's not that useful for existing members who already have their collections catalogued here, and you would run into pretty much the same challenges as with cross-linking.

Not really interested in links to auction houses / dealers. I would likely just block any such content the same way I block E-Bay ads. Just because I'm looking at a coin doesn't mean I have any plans to buy it and I do not want the ads to waste my bandwidth and make page loading times longer.