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LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) is an XML schema for describing museum objects. 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.

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LIDO Specification

The LIDO specification 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:

  • 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:

  • 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
  • LIBIS has created a LIDO profile for the CollectiveAccess open source Collection Management System. 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

    LIDO Wikipedia
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