The article discusses theoretical background for indexing iconographic documents, selected indexing standards and tools. A few problems found during analysis and interpretation of documents, selection of indexing terms, and their registration, were described. The author presents methods used in the Library of Congress. Basing on documents from the National Library collection, he developed an indexing scheme enabling universal and effective access to such a collection.
Digitalisation of documents popularizes access to iconographic documents. However, it is not easy to organize adequate access points to such collections. Development of subject access points is particularly difficult. A key issue is image analysis and – in consequence – development of adequate description. This is a review, with methods of analysis and models of indexing iconographic documents presented on a few examples.
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