In addition to new basic personal entries, new articles by numerous specialists are published under the direction of the scientific SIKART editorial team on an ongoing basis.
In 1991, SIK-ISEA published its first fully computerised publication: Künstlerverzeichnis der Schweiz 1980–1990 (Artists’ Directory of Switzerland 1980–1990 [KVS]).
After extensive preparatory work for the new data modelling of the entire online inventory according to CIDOC CRM standards, SIKART was relaunched in 2021 and has been integrated in the SIK-ISEA research portal since 2023.
From 2006 until March 2023, all lexicon entries were divided into a five-level points system to reflect the public’s reception of the artists (‘editing depth’).
The editors reacted to the fact that this visualisation of reception was repeatedly misunderstood as an editorial ‘rating’ by dispensing with the indication of editing depths.