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

德国汉堡的Warburg-Haus是“政治图像索引”（Bildindex zur Politischen Ikonographie，BPI），由Martin Warnke于1991年建立，并不断扩大。BPI由大约20万张索引卡组成，其中有艺术品的复制品，但也有其他材料，如照片，报纸摘录和参考文献。这些索引卡是按字母顺序组织的，由政治文化和社会历史领域的近1 000个基于内容的索引词组成。除了统治者肖像等关键内容外，BPI还包含大量关于艺术品政治动机和意义的说明。BPI还允许追溯视觉主题和主题的文化和历史传统，通常以神话和宗教象征为特征，从古代到现在。该项目的目的是对索引卡的全部资料进行检索，全面了解其方法，并使其能够在一个免费使用的公共在线数据库中进行检索，同时保持相同的索引系统。这是由Warburg-Haus、德国艺术史文献中心- Bildarchiv Foto马尔堡和Thüringer Universitäts und Landesbibliothek Jena与digiCULT-Verbund eG合作完成的。此外，加强卡片的权威控制和主题编目的索引术语将有助于提供先进的研究和联网的可能性以及索引的可扩展性。以数字形式，公众宣传局将提供一个材料来源库，从中可以产生更多的研究项目。政治图像学和索引从两个不同的研究角度来看：作为一个跨学科的起源和思想史的研究领域，必须严格承认，并作为艺术和媒体史的创新方法，也将在数字空间中证明是可行的。除了包括在研究和教学材料，将有一个研讨会与出版物遵循。计划与研究项目“Bilderfahrzeuge”进行协调的研究合作。Aby瓦尔堡的遗产和图像学的未来”（瓦尔堡研究所，伦敦;洪堡大学，柏林;马克斯-普朗克协会，柏林;沃伯格-豪斯，汉堡），由联邦教育和研究部资助，与马克斯·韦伯基金会合作进行。

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.