Etienne,

I don't have any records containing SHIC classifications to hand, but 
here is an extract from SHIC itself, to give you a flavour.  SHIC allows 
you to record the social context in which an object was actually used 
(rather than its original purpose, for example).  As such, I don't see 
how it could be easily mapped to an iconographic scheme like ICONCLASS.  
However, it could clearly be interesting to classify objects using 
multiple schemes, and then compare usage across a set of objects.

Richard

1.10 GENERAL
1.11-12 CUSTOM AND BELIEF
Includes all traditional customary practices and beliefs relating to the 
aspects of community life listed
below. For folk tales and legends relating to these topics see 1.14 and 
cross-reference if desired.
1.13 LANGUAGE AND DIALECT
Includes items relating to any of the following categories. Often this 
material will be in the form of folk
narratives or discussions of work practices and should be 
cross-referenced to the appropriate section.
1.130 GENERAL
1.131 LINGUISTIC ELEMENTS
1.1310 GENERAL
1.1311 GENERAL USAGE
Includes particular or peculiar uses of standard English such as 
phonetics, phonemics, morphemics,
occupational and other vocabulary, grammar, syntax, semantics.
1.1312 REGIONAL DIALECT
Includes phonetics, phonemics, morphemics, occupational and other 
vocabulary, grammar, syntax,
semantics.
1.1313 SOCIAL DIALECT
Includes phonetics, phonemics, morphemics, occupational and other 
vocabulary, grammar, syntax,
semantics.
1.1314 ONOMASTICS
Includes personal names, nicknames, place names, Blasons Populaires, 
material object names, folk
names.
SECTION 1 COMMUNITY LIFE
30 SHIC CLassification System
1.1315 WORD GROUPS, PHRASES, ETC
Includes calls to animals, calls to humans, yells, chants, euphemisms, 
verbal substitutions, similes,
proverbial comparisons, proverbial exaggerations, metaphors, proverbs, 
Blasons Populaires, phrases,
codes and mnemonic devices and abbreviations.
1.1319 OTHER
1.132 SILENT FORMS
Includes all written and non-verbal traditions.
1.1320 GENERAL
1.1321 WRITTEN
Includes traditional forms only.
e.g. autographs (including signatures, rhymes and phrases), 
inscriptions, epitaphs, graffiti, ciphers,
codes.
See also 1.712 and 3.1.
1.1322 NON-VERBAL
e.g. gestures, hand signals, facial expressions.
1.1329 OTHER
1.133 SOCIAL EXCHANGES
1.1330 GENERAL
1.1331 SOCIAL
Includes blessings, graces, prayers, toasts, greetings, leave taking.
1.1332 ANTI-SOCIAL
Includes epithets, insults, jeers, taunts, ridicule, oaths, curses, 
boasts, defiance.
1.1339 OTHER
1.134 VERBAL PLAY
1.1340 GENERAL
1.1341 RHYMES
Includes parodies, topical rhymes, satirical rhymes, teasing rhymes, 
nonsense rhymes, limericks, bawdy rhymes, Blasons Populaires rhymes, 
adult-to-child rhymes (including poking/tickling rhymes, featurenaming 
rhymes, clapping rhymes, bouncing rhymes, nursery rhymes).
1.1342 VERBAL TRICKS
Includes riddles, trick language, tongue twisters, verbal traps, 
mathematical puzzles, shocks (boo, etc.).
1.1343 PLAY ON WORDS
Includes wellerisms, humorous responses (including responses to verbal 
and non-verbal situations),
epigrams, puns, mock orations (including mock speeches, blessings, 
graces, prayers, toasts), unrhymed parodies (including speeches, 
blessings, graces, prayers, chants, foreign language), teases, tangle talk.
1.1349 OTHER
1.135 VERBAL SOCIAL CONTROLS
1.1350 GENERAL
1.1351 DISCOURAGEMENTS
Includes terms of constraint, appeals, warnings, reproofs, evasive 
answers, put-offs, threats.
1.1352 ENCOURAGEMENTS
Includes reinforcements, appeals, come-ons, promises, cheers.
SECTION 1 COMMUNITY LIFE
SHIC CLassification System 31
1.1359 OTHER
1.14 FOLK NARRATIVE
Many of the items included in this section should be cross-referenced to 
the relevant sections elsewhere in the Classification.
1.140 GENERAL
1.141 FOLKTALES
Folk tales are essentially prose narratives which are regarded as 
fiction and told primarily for
entertainment.
1.1410 GENERAL
1.1411 FOLK TALES - COMPLEX (MULTIPLE ELEMENTS)
1.1412 FOLK TALES - SIMPLE (SINGLE ELEMENT)
Includes anecdotes, formula tales, jokes.
1.1419 OTHER

On 02/05/2012 09:52, Etienne Posthumus wrote:
> Dear Richard,
>
> I had a look at the Wikipedia page and the SHIC Working Party page by
> Stuart Holm, but could not get a feel for what the classification
> system 'looks' like from there. Do you have a URL with some example
> entries, or could you post a snippet of some items somewhere with
> their classification?
>
> There is an interesting project in Rotterdam linking physical
> artefacts to their depictions http://alma.boijmans.nl/en/ which is
> relevant as a nice case study for where bridging systems like SHIC and
> ICONCLASS could be very interesting.
>

-- 
*Richard Light*

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