A note about the countries listed here: These are only those countries for which we were able to successfully geocode (an object's location) against the Where on Earth (WOE) gazetteer.

Eventually every object will have a unique gazetteer ID (whether it's WOE or the Getty's thesaurus of named places or some other source) but that's not the case at the moment, partly because in the push to release the alpha version of the website we've opted for things that could be solved programatically with a high degree of confidence and left things that need extra checking to identify, whether by humans or machines, for later.

The alpha is meant to be a living, breathing example of the direction we're heading – things like unique and easily indexible identifiers for countries – but we're trying to solve the simple things first and leave the harder things (like geography) for the beta release and beyond.