The digital numismatics research development in Ukraine (2013-2021)

Abstract

The significance of this historiographical study lies in the need to summarise the preliminary results of numismatic scientific thought development in the field of digitalisation and to determine further prospects for both digitalisation itself and scientific directions for its study. The research objective was to systematise and review the Ukrainian historiography concerning the use of modern technologies and general digitalisation processes in numismatic science during the period from 2013 to 2021: a crucial period from the beginning of the publication of the first works in this research area in Ukraine to its full institutionalisation and integration into international cooperation. The work was written using critical, comparative, evolutionary historiographical research methods and meta-analysis of sources, which allowed to determine the direction of the scientists’ interests and general trends in the digitalisation study development in numismatics. In the study process the author conducted a historiographical analysis of the national scholars’ works on the problems of numismatic digitalisation in 2013- 2021 in order to identify the views and changes related to the problem under study and to draw balanced and reasonable conclusions. The conducted study results showed that during mentioned period not only the Ukrainian scientific numismatic community prestige increased, but also new knowledge was formed, new methods and approaches in the numismatics study were rethought and formed. The study results demonstrated the importance of incorporating digital tools into the numismatists’ scientific practice, and specific recommendations for future research in this area are developed, considering its role in expanding opportunities for domestic research in the field of numismatics. The relevance and expediency of using specialised Internet sources for numismatic research, as well as their role in revealing new facts about the history of coinage and money circulation, were emphasised. The article analysed scientific publications that emphasise the importance of having official and properly structured resources that could serve as a basis for further research. The practical value lies in the possibility of applying the results and recommendations of the research in planning the topics of further numismatic and historiographical research, preparing lectures on the national numismatics history