Digitization, data recording and online-publication of the “Image Index of Political Iconography”

在德国汉堡的Warburg-Haus保存着“政治肖像图像索引”(Bildindex zur Poltischen Ikongraph ie，BPI)，该索引由马丁·沃恩克于1991年建立，此后一直在不断扩大。BPI包括大约20万张索引卡，上面有艺术品的复制品，但也有额外的材料，如照片、报纸节选和文献参考。这些索引卡按字母顺序排列，由来自政治、文化和社会历史领域的近1000个基于内容的索引词组成。除了尺子肖像等关键内容外，公众宣传册还包含大量关于艺术品政治动机和意义的说明。公众宣传局还允许追溯视觉主题和主题的文化和历史传统，从古代到现在，通常以神话和宗教象征为特征。该项目旨在将整个索引卡语料库数字化，全面了解其方法，并使其可在免费访问的公共在线数据库中进行搜索，同时保持相同的索引系统。这将作为Warburg-Haus、德国艺术史文献中心-Bildachv Foto Marburg和Thüringer University and Landesbibliothek Jena与DigitCULT-Verbund EG的合作完成。此外，加强对主题编目的权威控制和索引词的卡片将有助于提供先进的研究和联网可能性以及索引的可扩充性。以数字形式，公众宣传局将提供一个材料来源池，从中可以产生更多的研究项目。政治肖像学和指数从两个不同的研究角度来看：作为一个具有跨学科起源和思想历史的研究领域，必须得到批判性承认，以及作为一种创新的艺术和媒体历史方法，在数字空间也将被证明是可行的。除了将材料纳入研究和教学之外，还将举行一次研讨会，随后将出版一份出版物。计划与研究项目“Bilderfahrzeuge.Aby Warburg‘s Legacy and the Future of Iconology”(伦敦华堡研究所、柏林洪堡大学、柏林Max-Planck-Gesellschaft、汉堡Warburg-Haus)开展协调研究合作，该项目由联邦教育和研究部资助，并与马克斯·韦伯基金会合作实施。

Kept at Warburg-Haus in Hamburg, Germany is the "Image Index of Political Iconography" (Bildindex zur Politischen Ikonographie, BPI), which was established in 1991 by Martin Warnke and has since been continuously expanded. The BPI consists of about 200,000 index cards with reproductions of artworks, but also additional material such as photos, newspaper excerpts, and literature references. The index cards are organized alphabetically in a system of almost 1,000 content-based index terms from the areas of political culture and social history. Aside from key contents such as the rulers iconography, the BPI contains a multitude of captions on the political motivation and significance of artworks. The BPI also allows tracing cultural and historical traditions of visual themes and subjects, often characterized by mythological and religious symbolism, from Antiquity up until the present day. The project aims to digitize the entire corpus of index cards, gain a comprehensive understanding of its methodology, and make it searchable in a free-access public online database while keeping the same indexing system. This is to be accomplished as a collaboration between Warburg-Haus, German Documentation Center for Art History – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, and Thüringer Universitäts und Landesbibliothek Jena in association with digiCULT-Verbund eG. In addition, enhancing the cards with authority control and index terms for subject cataloguing will serve to provide advanced research and networking possibilities as well expandability of the index. In a digital form, the BPI will provide a source pool of materials from which additional research projects can emerge. Political iconography and the index are viewed from two different research angles: as a research area with an interdisciplinary genesis and history of ideas which must be critically acknowledged, and as an innovative method of art and media history that will prove viable also in the digital space. Aside from including the material in research and teaching, there will be a symposium with a publication to follow. A coordinated research cooperation is planned with the research project "Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology" (Warburg Institute, London; Humboldt-Universität, Berlin; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin; Warburg-Haus, Hamburg), financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and carried out in cooperation with Max Weber Foundation.