LIDO
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LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) is an XML schema for describing museum objects.[1] It is applicable to all kinds of objects: art, natural history, technology, cultural objects. LIDO is widely used for harvesting museum data in union catalogs, and as a preliminary step for converting to semantic formats like CIDOC CRM or EDM.
LIDO Specification
The LIDO specification[2] is a publicly available XSD schema of relatively high complexity. Comprehensive introductions and overviews are available.
It was influenced by the following metadata standards and ontologies:[3]
- CDWA by the J. Paul Getty Trust
- museumdat by the German Museums Association
- SPECTRUM by the UK Collections Trust
- CIDOC CRM by the ICOM CIDOC committee
LIDO Tools
A few tools are available for handling LIDO:[4]
- OAICatMuseum by OCLC Research allows publication of museum data as LIDO or CDWA, using the OAI-PMH protocol
- MINT is a general tool for metadata mapping developed by National Technical University of Athens that is often used by Europeana-related projects. It can map to EDM or LIDO[5]
- LIBIS has created a LIDO profile for the CollectiveAccess open source Collection Management System.[6] This allows museums to catalog objects directly in LIDO. While LIDO is not a fully-fledged museum Collection Management schema (e.g. like SPECTRUM by the Collections Trust), it is quite sufficient for most collections.
References
- ^ "What is LIDO". ICOM CIDOC.
- ^ "LIDO Specification". ICOM CIDOC.
- ^ "LIDO Related Standards". ICOM CIDOC.
- ^ "LIDO Tools". ICOM CIDOC.
- ^ "MINT Demo (presentation)" (PDF).
- ^ "CollectiveAccess - LIDO profile". ResearchSpace project.