My reconstituted web site

I recently made the extremely tough decision to really “downsize” my collection and shift my collecting and researching focus. That has led me to re-write my website and pages. You can access the new home page at:

http://jp29.org/000master.htm

I hope the explanation I supply there (and repeat here) is satisfactory. All comments and suggestions are welcome.

About the new site and pages ……………

I have always had a special interest in the coinage depicted on these pages. And that is only natural, for I was born and grew up in northern England (Lancashire and Yorkshire).

The area where I grew up was steeped in Britannic-Roman history. Some of the moors I hiked in my youth could have been the land on which Septimius Severus and his sons Caracalla & Geta had campaigned in AD 211 and Constantius & his son Constantine in AD 306. Both of those fathers died in York (Eboracum) in north Yorkshire during those campaigns

And so with my heritage it was also natural that I sought out Roman coins with Britannic association from that period of history when I began to collect and research them shortly after the end of WW2 (1945). I have collected and researched them ever since.

Creative Commons

There is now an enormous amount of excellent reference material available on the Internet, however, much of it is not freely available due to copyright concerns.

I am a passionate advocate for maximum free use of online material. Creative Commons licensing is an excellent means to that end. Naturally there are numerous Copyright owners (including institutions, corporations and business owners) who wish to fully protect their material because it is a source of income - Creative Commons licensing is usually not for them.

Creative Commons licensing provides free use and sharing of online material without the encumbrance of having to seek author permission -- which is often a long, time consuming, procedure -- and at the same time insuring that author intellectual property ownership is recognized and protected.

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. This is the Creative Commons license I use for my web pages. It permits visitors to freely copy and use the content with attribution to me. Information relating to all licenses is at this page

 

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Thanks for posting the link to your website @jamesicus - I must say I really enjoyed reading about the tetrarchy's dissolution and collapse. A fine site.

 

Thank you @ancient coin hunter.

 

It's an excellent site.

 

Thank you Randy. It has felt kinda nice to put RIC volume VI aside for awhile and dust off BMCRE volume I - an old friend back in action!

 

I love the new site, @jamesicus. And three cheers for Creative Commons!

 

Thank you @Severus Alexander - especially for the Creative Commons support!

 

a very interesting and informative site. I can see you put a lot of hard effort and time into it. thanks for sharing. I learned a lot of about British-Roman history.

 

Thank you very much for those very kind words @britannia40 - it was indeed a labor of love. I am very pleased, and humbled, to read that you learned a lot from visiting my site.

 

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and passion to all. It is a wonderful website.
My opinion is that knowledge is something that should be freely accessible to every person on this planet - rich or poor. I have read old posts from many of the best contributors here (many of whom have their own excellent websites - which I am thankful for) who seem to have asked themselves if they are hurting the print industry, authors, publishers or stifling research by making their knowledge available freely to the public. I understand there are many concerns and ramifications that are still not resolved regarding this question. But it is my belief (my personal belief - nothing more) that knowledge should not be monetized. It should be free for all who seek it. No one should be denied knowledge if they cannot afford a book or do not have access to a book...it's as simple as that. The free internet IS under attack.. we may not be feeling it personally now but the laws are changing as we speak and we should be cognizant of the repercussions.
Sorry for the soap box speech.. but please be vigilant with your politicians. Allowing companies to throttle or divide the internet (basically Internet providers giving primary bandwidth or access to companies that pay) is beginning... soon your search results may only show paying customer's results. I sincerely hope that the golden age of free, accessible knowledge is ahead of us and not behind us.

Thank you Sir for sharing your knowledge with us all!

 

I know making and up keeping websites are very time consuming as I made a Spanish Historical website about 2 years ago. Many I have seen have errors and not easy to use. Yours on the others hand was user friendly and quite well laid out.

 

Thank you for that very thoughtful and passionate reply @Clavdivs (great username and in correct format yet!). You reflect my own values and beliefs relating to the use and availability of online content. Thank you.

 

The creators of intellectual property may have a different view, though you are certainly entitled to yours. I have a copyright notice on my course syllabi. I point out that creative content takes effort to produce and that this should be compensated where appropriate. In other words, I wrote my lectures and this involved work on my part. Students pay tuition to get access to my content I certainly do not want this shared for free on the internet.

On the other hand, the content I create for fun is fair game as far as I am concerned. If people with to use content from my website they are free to do so as long as they give a proper attribution.

 

@jamesicus I am going to look into a creative commons license for my website. Thanks very much for posting the links.

 

Thank you @Orfew. Creative Commons have an excellent FAQ at:

https://creativecommons.org/faq/

 

Good points @Orfew - see above for a link to the Creative Commons FAQ.

 

My site is now licensed under Creative Commons. Click on the link in my signature to visit.

 

Great site @Orfew! And congratulations for licensing the content via Creative Commons! Thank you!

 

Thanks James, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you @britannia40. If you should encounter any errors or navigation glitches please let me know via a posting here or PM.