The halt leading the

blindNecessity of Mutual

Co-operation

Hans BrandhorstEtienne Posthumus

5 March 2013 - Getty DAH Lab

Hans: Iconographer & Art HistorianICONCLASS since 1985

Etienne: Software Developer & Metadata specialistICONCLASS since 1998

Collaborative makers of Arkyves database

Background

http://iconclass.org/

ICONCLASSMulti-lingual Iconography - the de-facto global standard for subject indexing of images and text.

The Arkyves database

Arkyves offers a single access point for subject searches across a rich and growing collection of cultural sources.

Although our partners supply material varying from medieval illumination to modern photography, all of it is

made accessible with the help of Iconclass.

http://dev.arkyves.org/

Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum

Herzog August Bibliothek, WolfenbüttelAnton-Ulrich Museum, BraunschweigKoninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague

Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamCESR Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance

Glasgow UniversityUtrecht UniversityUniversity of Milan

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignDMVI Cardiff University

Native Arkyves collections: Erasmus's Adages,Dutch printer's devices, Emblem books, Iconclass bibliography

...and more.

Collaboration 1:

Art historian & IT-developer think differently

Heraclitus & Democritus

Modus Operandi

Interactive design & development driven by discovery.

Difficulty of formulating requirements if you don't even know what you want yet...

Complex software and complex content

Collaboration 2: language issuesand vocabulary control

building on each other's efforts

sharing and enriching datasets

collaborative scholarly tagging, in particular in iconography

Arkyves attempts to facilitate

Discussion points

How do we deal with multiple languages?How to share data, and datasets?

How to organize collaboration?Open Access vs sustainable business models

Enriching existing data

The blind leading the

blind?