Thanks, Chad!

I will look for that Collective Imagination presentation right now.

BTW I think ICONCLASS is making a comeback, or reinventing themselves; they have a brand new browser and a new platform. If people are interested I’ll let them know what I find out. Seems like a good system for Christian and Classical subjects, particularly narrative themes that are hard for catalogers to summarize in a quick and consistent manner.

Emily

Emily Nedell Tuck

Data Standards Manager

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chad Petrovay
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Emily,

Iconclass was part of the data standards for Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum, but when I was reworking the style guide from ARGUS to TMS, I was told that Iconclass was more or less a thing of the past. While some such data lived in TMS, there was no active development or work with it during my time there.

I believe that there was a presentation about Iconclass at Collective Imagination 2009. You may want to check the presentation archive on the GS support site.

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Subject: ICONCLASS?

Greetings,

I keep coming across references to ICONCLASS (http://www.iconclass.org/) in articles discussing indexing subjects and iconographic themes. Just wondering if any of you are using it, or are attempting to capture this kind of information in any systematic way.

Thanks,

Emily

Emily Nedell Tuck

Data Standards Manager
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
telephone:  713-353-1523
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