I just heard from Etienne Posthumus of ICONCLASS - he gave me permission to reproduce his response on this list.
Hopefully the next release will be dedicated to the public domain! Jonathan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi Jonathan Glad you like it. ICONCLASS has been around for more than 30 years, so it has been worked on by a LOT of people over the years. Initially in the print version it spanned many bookshelves, then it was computerised in the late eighties, improved and translated into many languages in the nineties, and since the late nineties I have been working on several versions and applications of it in a few projects. The version on iconclass.info was a bit of a hurried hack cobbled together late last month when Ed Summers had to close down the lcsh.info. I had been planning on doing something similar but was forced to hurry up a bit with the idea of 'getting it out there' while topical. I need to clarify with the current official stewards of ICONCLASS - the RKD (http://www.rkd.nl) which license they would prefer. My understanding is that it will probably be something like Public Domain or Copyleft- this is what we have been advising them to use. In the first quarter of 2009 I will be developing a back-end management module for the RKD, and one of the parts thereof will be the RDF export option. Having an explicit (and open!) license will definitely be displayed. Thanks so much for the tips on the The Public Domain Dedication and License and buttons, I will be passing on the info to the RKD management and recommend that it be used. Myself and colleague Hans Brandhorst act as the ICONCLASS external experts for the RKD. Kind regards, Etienne Posthumus PS, while not open data if you are interested metadata and images in general, http://www.arkyves.org/ might be interesting too. (This is a practical application of the ICONCLASS system) _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
