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Message:: [QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7810908, member: 74282"]I'm not involved with OCRE or CRRO but as an outsider who has looked into the tech used a bit and knows a few of the people working on these databases, I can provide at least a partial answer. First and foremost, these projects are based on specific reference works, not just for organization, but also because the way that OCRE or CRRO show you all the coins for a given type in the BnF, BM, ANS, etc is through the use of linked IDs, so if you want to look at <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-287.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-287.1" rel="nofollow">RRC 287/1</a> then all those institutions must catalog their examples as "RRC 287/1" for them all to show up on the page. So types in the publication are relatively "easy"(though still a lot of work), but it takes a lot more coordination to add the necessary data for the system to reflect coin types not included in whatever the main publication is that is used for that database and have the examples actually appear from other museums. It would not surprise me if, at some point, an effort is made to add some of the many types published or rehabilitated since the publication of these various works, but I know at the moment a lot of their resources are tied up on other projects such as further integration of RRDP into CRRO.[/QUOTE]