ATHENA PHAIDRA University of Padua hdl:11168/11.6823 https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:6823 McKenna, Gordon, et al., Lightweight information describing objects (LIDO): the international harvesting standard for museums, ATHENA, 2011-01-01, 44 p.. PDFDocument http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/it/legalcode EuroVoc 4.2 -- EDUCAZIONE ET COMUNICAZIONE (D32) -- informazione ed elaborazione dell'informazione (MT3231) EuroVoc 4.2 -- BILDUNG UND KOMMUNIKATION (D32) -- Information und Informationsverarbeitung (MT3231) LIDO, standard, metadata, harvesting, Dublin core, museums, Europeana, collections EuroVoc 4.2 -- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (D32) -- information and information processing (MT3231) 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 http://www.athenaeurope.org/ McKenna, Gordon Rohde-Enslin, Stefan Stein, Regina ATHENA WP3, “Identifying standards and developing recommendations” http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:6786 2011 Lightweight information describing objects (LIDO): the international harvesting standard for museums eng application/pdf (524333 bytes)