Last week, the East Asian department of the American Numismatic Society (over 51,000 objects) was migrated into the new CollectiveAccess curatorial database. This data cleanup and reconciliation work was performed by curator, David Yoon. Many thousands of new people, dynasties, and corporate entities were added to the database, many or most of which were linked to Wikidata URIs. Similarly, the vast majority of placenames were linked to Geonames or Wikidata, dramatically improving the quality and consistency of entity names throughout the department.
A handful of these objects have findspots, such as 1989.114.88, an 11th century Chinese coin found at al Qatif, on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia.
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| Display of 1989.114.88, a Song dynasty coin found in Saudi Arabia |
Only the Medieval and Modern European departments remain for migration. This work is being undertaken now, and should be migrated into CollectiveAccess sometime by mid-May, although the reconciliation of places and entities will continue through 2026.
