Emojiconclass maps emojis to Iconclass concepts to help make indexing, accessing and understanding art more visual and fun.
The project aims to render complex ideas about artworks and the history of art into simple sequences of emojis which are intuitive to users regardless of knowledge, nationality or language.
Emojis should be able to be used both literally and metaphorically. More elaborate ideas can be expressed by ordering and grouping sequences of different (or repeating) emojis.
- names of artefacts and man-made objects 🏺🏷️ 61G
- names of historical events and situations 📜📅🏷️ 61I
- mark of ownership ✍️🏷️ 49L27
- handwriting, writing as activity ✍️👈 49L11
- specific works of literature 📖👈 83
- volcano 🌋👈 (not volcanism 🌋) 25C12
| Image | Emojiconclass | Iconclass code |
|---|---|---|
 The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660 |
👩🍳⛓️ 🥛👩⛓️ 🥛 🍞 🦶🔥 🏺 |
41C222 47I22311 41C6413 41C621 41B23 41A773 |
 The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642 |
💂🧑 ⚔️👈 🥁👈 👧 💂🏴 🐕 |
45(+26) 45C1 48C7341 31D11222 45D12 34B11 |
 Self-portrait, Vincent van Gogh, 1887 |
🤳🖌️ 🤳 📜🙂 |
48C513 48B3 61B2 |
The Emojiconclass controlled vocabulary is implemented as Linked Open Data, and will be available as JSON-LD.
@prefix crm: <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/> .
@prefix uni: <https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#> .
<http://emojiconclass.org/🎨️🤔️> a crm:E42_Identifier ;
crm:P1i_identifies <http://iconclass.org/0> ;
crm:P2_has_type <http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404629> ;
crm:P190_has_symbolic_content "🎨️🤔️" ;
crm:P106_is_composed_of uni:1f3a8,
uni:1f914 .This project is in very early development. Everything is likely to change.
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