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Numismatic and History Discussion Forums => Ancient Coin Forum => Topic started by: Pep on May 12, 2007, 09:06:27 pm

Title: The Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals - Award Poll
Post by: Pep on May 12, 2007, 09:06:27 pm

http://www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/index.html

Title: Re: The Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals - Award Poll
Post by: *Alex on May 13, 2007, 06:02:58 am

I didn't find this site particularly "user friendly" but on the plus side it is "Numismatically excellent" and a vast amount of material is available for viewing. So, with the latter in mind, I voted yes.

Alex.

Title: Re: The Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals - Award Poll
Post by: slokind on May 13, 2007, 01:49:36 pm

If a site has things that we actually want and need and no garbage, as is true of this one, the odd notion of friendliness (to whom?) seems particularly inappropriate.  Clicking dozens of buttons searching for something worth searching for is time consuming and irritating.
Besides, I find this site perfectly friendly to me.  Pat L.

Title: Re: The Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals - Award Poll
Post by: *Alex on May 13, 2007, 09:37:00 pm

Quote from: slokind on May 13, 2007, 01:49:36 pm

If a site has things that we actually want and need and no garbage, as is true of this one, the odd notion of friendliness (to whom?) seems particularly inappropriate.  Clicking dozens of buttons searching for something worth searching for is time consuming and irritating.
Besides, I find this site perfectly friendly to me.  Pat L.

Ouch! ;D
To make myself clearer. The site's search function is fine - if you are looking for a particular coin, but not if one wants to browse a small section of coins. It is not the clicking of dozens of buttons, it is the typing of dozens of words in the search function that is time consuming and irritating. I would have liked a few more buttons to click. But each to his (or her) own, I didn't condemn the site, and in fact I voted for it, I only made an observation from my own point of view.  :-X

Alex.

Title: Re: The Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals - Award Poll
Post by: AlexB on May 14, 2007, 12:22:28 am

Its the primary reference for English Hammered finds and thus indespensible to me.  I think its excellence comes from its sheer size and completeness and the fact that someone had to load all that data up.

Deserves a good beer after work at the very least :)

Alex

Title: Re: The Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals - Award Poll
Post by: Cleisthenes on May 14, 2007, 03:40:44 am

This is an excellent resource/research site.

Jim

Title: Re: Closed Award Poll - The Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals
Post by: Pep on June 08, 2007, 07:43:34 am

Here is a reply from Dr. Mark Blackburn, Keeper of Coins and Medals:

"
Dear Pep,

Thank you for giving us your Forum Award.  We very much believe in making information about our collection, our research projects and numismatics in general available to the public as widely as possible.  And so it is great to receive the encouragement of groups such as yours to make us think that our efforts are worthwhile. 

I'll take a look to see if there is some way in which we can include your logo on the site.

Best wishes

Mark

Dr Mark Blackburn
Keeper of Coins and Medals
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge CB2 1RB
"