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Numishare is an open source suite of applications for managing digital cultural heritage artifacts, with a particular focus on coins and medals.
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Translation, meaning of "identifier" #109

Closed Msch0150 closed 2 years ago

Msch0150 commented 2 years ago

Numishare > Admin UI > > Administrative > +Identifier > "my_identifier" Publish the coin. The english page displays:

Identifier: my_identifier

The German page displays:

Bestimmt von: my_identifier

The meaning of the German "Bestimmt von" is equal to "identified by" or "determined by", but it not the meaning of an inventory number. But a look to "http://nomisma.org/nuds#identifier" shows:

The is the holding repository's internal identification number--typically an accession number. If the may be expressed in a way that is valid for a URI, it is recommended that this number be simultaneously used as the in the of the NUDS record.

So this meaning expects more a inventory-number than a person. In this case the translation is misleading.

ewg118 commented 2 years ago

Yes, that's correct. The "Identifier" should refer to the inventory or accession number. The Berlin database uses "Objektnummer". Is this generic enough? Different museums have slightly different vocabulary for the same thing. The British Museum uses "Registration number."

Msch0150 commented 2 years ago

I think "Objektnummer" is quite ok.

Msch0150 commented 2 years ago

Hm. I took a deeper look. Berlin uses "Inventarnummer" in addition to "Objektnummer". Example:

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?lang=de&id=18268161

Many Universities use "Inventarnummer" next to "Objektnummer", a few examples:

University Rostok: https://numid.uni-rostock.de/object?lang=de&id=ID173

Goethe Universität Frankfurt: http://www.mkfrankfurt.uni-frankfurt.de/object?id=ID294

Ruhr-Universität Bochum: http://ikmk.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/object?id=ID410

Based on the the description in "http://nomisma.org/nuds#identifier" the term "Inventarnummer" would fit better. But maybe another meaning would help.