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<p>[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3617468, member: 88829"]Much <i>available</i>? True from a referential standpoint, but scattered hither and yon, and alongside the vanity sites that merely show off collections. In a very real way the building of websites could provide for the missing element in the collecting of ancients, i.e. competitive exhibiting, but who has the clout to establish standards for evaluation of entries in a competition? So vanity it is and likely to remain so.</p><p><br /></p><p>For reference purposes, however, you and Augustus have/had the right idea to offer significant indexing on your sites along with your direct educational content (Warren even more than you, perhaps). Zach Beasley, Reid Goldsborough, and Victor Clark created special focus sites that are good jumping off points in a different way, and Victor has tried to add current reference to others in his areas of interest (not sure he has time for that now). Dave Surber harvested the online auction offerings to get illustrations for everything in the standard cats when he created Wildwinds, which Dane has been keeping up, of course, but so far no one has come up with "one sight to rule them all." I think it will need to be a collaborative effort, but I don't know that anyone has that agenda now. I still think it is still out there as something this field of interest could use, for collectors and for scholars. I am aware that putting some of the literature most used by numismatists online has been happening. </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps others here know of efforts yet a-borning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3617468, member: 88829"]Much [I]available[/I]? True from a referential standpoint, but scattered hither and yon, and alongside the vanity sites that merely show off collections. In a very real way the building of websites could provide for the missing element in the collecting of ancients, i.e. competitive exhibiting, but who has the clout to establish standards for evaluation of entries in a competition? So vanity it is and likely to remain so. For reference purposes, however, you and Augustus have/had the right idea to offer significant indexing on your sites along with your direct educational content (Warren even more than you, perhaps). Zach Beasley, Reid Goldsborough, and Victor Clark created special focus sites that are good jumping off points in a different way, and Victor has tried to add current reference to others in his areas of interest (not sure he has time for that now). Dave Surber harvested the online auction offerings to get illustrations for everything in the standard cats when he created Wildwinds, which Dane has been keeping up, of course, but so far no one has come up with "one sight to rule them all." I think it will need to be a collaborative effort, but I don't know that anyone has that agenda now. I still think it is still out there as something this field of interest could use, for collectors and for scholars. I am aware that putting some of the literature most used by numismatists online has been happening. Perhaps others here know of efforts yet a-borning.[/QUOTE]
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