o:6823 Lightweight information describing objects (LIDO): the international harvesting standard for museums en Booklet on LIDO, a format used to aggregate museum data and transform and deliver them to EUROPEANA. According to ATHENA project's survey, DC-based systems ‘flatten out’ museum metadata, with most of the data going into limited subset of elements. It was to overcome this situation that LIDO was developed. Edited by ATHENA WP3 Working Group “Identifying standards and developing recommendations” Table of contents 1. Why is LIDO needed? 1.1 Collections management 1.2 Service 1.3 Discovery 2. LIDO's background 3. LIDO's home 4. When to use LIDO 5. LIDO - the basic design principles 6. Practices with LIDO: the ATHENA experience 6.1 ATHENA’s choice of LIDO 6.2 The ATHENA mapping and ingestion process 6.3 Results Annex 1. LIDO overview Annex 2. The importance of persistent identifiers {link}http://www.athenaeurope.org/ {/link} LIDO, standard, metadata, harvesting, Dublin core, museums, Europeana, collections no 2012-02-29T10:55:06.065Z 44 no 1552095 Gordon McKenna Collections Trust (UK) Stefan Rohde-Enslin Institut für Museumsforschung, SMB-PK (Germany) person Regina Stein Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (Germany) person ATHENA WP3, “Identifying standards and developing recommendations” institution 2012-02-28 application/pdf 524333 http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:6823 no no 5 70 3 6199 6505 CENTRI CAB Describing objects (LIDO): the international harvesting lightweight information standard for museums 44 p. ATHENA 2011-01-01