Data Harvesting and Interchange Working Group
The Data Harvesting and Interchange Working Group provides information about, and supports the development and application of, formats and techniques for harvesting and interchanging information of relevance to the museum community.
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LIDO v1.0 has been released at CIDOCs 2010 annual meeting, November 8th-10th!
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The initial focus of the Data Harvesting and Interchange Working Group is to centralize information and activities that are currently taking place with Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO) under a committee that can sustain its understanding, advancement, exposure, and applicability. LIDO is a format for contributing museum information for resource discovery.
The Working Group serves as a place to bring together documentation and material for LIDO, along with information on CDWA Lite, and museumdat, the two XML schemas upon which LIDO is based. The Working Group will provide a history of developments and provide material to help understand how the schemas evolved. The Working Group will serve as the source for the most up-to-date information about advancements with LIDO, and serve as a place to evaluate its progress, implementations and understanding within the greater community.
Overview
Efforts for developing metadata formats that allow for contributing data in a standardized way have been bundled in a joint initiative from creators of CDWA Lite and museumdat. Led through the CDWA Lite Advisory Committee and the Documentation Committee of the German Museums Association, it was agreed to create a Working Group to develop a single schema that meets the requirements articulated by CDWA Lite, museumdat, and feedback received from the greater community of information and technology professionals. As part of this effort, compliance with CIDOC-CRM was a major requirement. Work was also carried out to align the schema with SPECTRUM.
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CDWA Lite is an XML schema for encoding core records for works of art and material culture based on the data elements and guidelines in Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) and following the data content standard Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO), provided by the J. Paul Getty Trust and ARTstor. It is intended as a low-barrier way to enable institutions to contribute their collections information to union catalogs using the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI/PMH). For more information see: http://getty.art.museum/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/cdwalite.html
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museumdat is an XML Schema provided by the Documentation Committee of the German Museums Association, which builds largely upon CDWA Lite, but overcomes its specific focus on art mainly by a reconfiguration of the CDWA Lite elements that takes into account the event-oriented multi-disciplinary approach of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. For more information see: http://www.museumdat.org/index.php?ln=en
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CIDOC CRM provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation. It is intended to be a common language for domain experts and implementers to formulate requirements for information systems and to serve as a guide for good practice of conceptual modeling. Work is carried out through the CIDOC-CRM Special Interest Group. For more information see: http://www.cidoc-crm.org/
- SPECTRUM XML schema is based on the UK and international standard for collections management with the same name from the Collections Trust. It provides a format for exchanging object records between different collections management systems and aggregating data. For more information see: http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum
LIDO , specified as XML Schema, is the result of a joint effort of the CDWA Lite, museumdat, SPECTRUM and CIDOC CRM communities. The schema combines the CDWA Lite and museumdat schemas and is informed by SPECTRUM. Being CIDOC-CRM compliant, it aims at contributing information of all kinds of museum objects for resource discovery.
The Data Harvesting and Interchange Working Group is co-chaired by Erin Coburn, a member of the CDWA Lite Advisory Committee, and Regine Stein, a member of the CDWA Lite – museumdat Working Group.
The formation of the Working Group is supported by: the CDWA Lite Advisory Committee, the Documentation Committee of the German Museums Association, the CDWA Lite – museumdat Working Group, and the ATHENA Working Group 3 "Identifying standards and developing recommendations".
For further information about LIDO contact Regine Stein ( r.stein@fotomarburg.de ).
Erin Coburn, Co-Chair
erin.coburn@metmuseum.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Regine Stein, Co-Chair
r.stein@fotomarburg.de
German Documentation Center for Art History, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany