European Projects Take the Plunge into LIDO
I have just spent the last week leading and teaching at a couple of workshops, in Rome and Berlin, for partners of the ATHENA project.The aims of the workshops were:
- Familiarise those who attended with the ATHENA system for ingesting and mapping content into an aggregation;
- Give an introduction to the new metadata harvesting schema LIDO (Light Information Describing Objects).
The workshop in Rome was filmed and you can see what happened at:
http://www.athenaeurope.org/index.php?en/159/training
This page has all the relevant information you will need.
LIDO (pronounced LeeDoe) is a harvesting schema that holds rich information about museum objects and the events (e.g. creation and use) associated with them. It is designed to work in the ‘service environment’ of a museum’s online collections database or portal. Here it should be possible to provide the user a much more engaging and useful experience than has been possible before.
LIDO is a development of:
- CDWA Lite;
- Museumdat;
- SPECTRUM.
The schema is also on course to be the standard for European projects providing content to Europeana. ATHENA has had interest from:
- MIMO;
- Judaica Europeana;
- EuropeanaLocal;
- APEnet;
- Sterna.
