This is fascinating, thanks Richard.
I was thinking of doing a simple mapping, describing some some SHIC
entries with ICONCLASS. One could then browse/search a collection that
was described in SHIC by using terms from ICONCLASS - and potentially
in other languages which is the big benefit. So a user could search in
German/French/Italian in an English collection without extensively
reclassifying the collection in question.
Yes, it will not be comprehensive and there will be certain concepts
which just do not map, but for discovery it can be a great help.
On 2 May 2012 11:26, Richard Light <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
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