News

August 28, 2022

The Forum is live! Please join in the discussions, add your comments or questions.

July 17, 2022

The testset for AI research has been added to the Hugging Face Datasets repository. This is part of the BigScience initiative to create an open source, community resource of LAM datasets

May 12, 2022

iconclass.org is now the production version of the new Illustrated Iconclass

April 28, 2022

Small bugfixes done to prepare for switching off old site.

January 25, 2022

A few weeks ago a "Help/How to use" file was started; also addressing more general issues of iconography. It is not yet linked, but it is accessible as it progresses
Suggestions and comments are very welcome

December 21, 2021

For the previous six days, since adding the keywords to the search index, some results for certain search queries were not correct. Sorry about that, was due to human error. It has been fixed now, and as a bonus, we are also adding search for more languages. The index now includes English, German, French and Italian.

December 15, 2021

Received feedback from staff at Marburg and the Rijksmuseum that there are some critical aspects of the new server that does not support their work. As the system is used by professional catalogers on a daily basis, we are restoring the old system until the new system satisfies more criteria.

Added notes on what is being done on the development of the new system.

Do you use the "old" system and have identified things in the new system which need attention? Please let us know!

December 14, 2021

Due to the critical log4shell vulnerability we decided to move the switch-over from the old site to the newer version ahead, effective immediately.

While the new site is not completely done yet, we feel that it is more worthwhile investing effort into getting the last minor issues sorted to bring the new site on par with the old.