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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
