The purpose of Iconclass
The use of Arkyves
to index documents by themes, motifs, stories, situations,
activities, gestures, events, ideas,messages,
miracles&
to find them again by …
spider
emblems
web
elephants
symbolallegory
turtles
fable
dragons
fabulousanimals
basilisk
myths
Apollo & Daphne
metamorphoses pursuit
adultery
myths
Venus & Mars Vulcan
net
myths
virtue
Hercules & Cerberus
heroes
virtue
David &Goliath Bible
Old Testament
Bible
Crucifixion
New Testament
behaviour gestures
lifting one’s hat
behaviour
emotions
weeping
behaviour
sleepingsituations
tennis
activities
recreation
fencing lessons
positions
‘recreation’
recreation
tobacco
recreation
alcohol
abstract ideas
good & bad government
leadership
Indexing with Iconclass: how does it work?
find the concept you need
check context & export concept
export a virtual ‘word cloud’
copying this to a database: 25F113(+4712)
means(virtually) copying this to a database:
Spiders (+ animals nesting; making nests, lodges, webs, etc.)
and this:
animal · arthropod · behaviour · burrow · cobweb · den · earth · hole · instinct · lodge · lower animal · nature · nest · psychology ·
spider · world
Retrieving with Arkyves: start with a keyword search
Adagium I iv 47: “Someone else compared the laws to webs spun by spiders, which are easily torn apart by big birds and only trap flies.”
clickable ‘word cloud’ in your language of choice
shift from a keyword search to concept-based browsing and searching using the Iconclass plugin
! no need for programming skills: the Iconclass ‘plugin’ on the left is available as a webservice and it is free …
with notation-based browsing and searching it is easyto broaden a query… 25F71 arthropods has 3653 hits
from catalogue to ‘knowledge discovery tool’ …
Million dollar question:How do I get
The thousand dollar question:
How to get the Iconclass plugin?
Million dollar question:How do I get
Don’t be shy,
it’s free, so
just ask ...
like they did at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel
Glasgow university
Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR Tours)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
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