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Research data on cultural objects is generated in a variety of contexts. As a key goal of NFDI4Culture, the consortium for cultural data within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), is to automatically interlink this data and integrate it into shared applications, such as knowledge graphs and web portals. This allows logical statements to be made about persons, works of art and architecture, places, or events, thereby generating new insights.

However, any evaluation and integration of data requires that such data has already been recorded in source systems with the necessary scientific diligence and stored in local systems within a logical structure. The more information is available at the time of recording the data considering how it might be used later as part of a data export, the more successful will be the capturing. This requires an ongoing dialogue between experts in the respective domains in which the research data is generated, and those who process it, ensuring data is optimally available for third-party reuse, both technically and legally.

This thematic portal serves as exchange and information platform for the internationally established LIDO standard for publishing data on tangible cultural objects. It is primarily addressed to the German-speaking community, covering both visual and object-based disciplines such as art history and archaeology, as well as information science and related disciplines. The LIDO standard is being developed further in an ongoing exchange with international experts within the framework of the ICOM Documentation LIDO Working Group. The development process is also being driven forward by theGerman-speaking LIDO Working Group within the Fachgruppe Dokumentation of the German Museum Association.

We invite you to:

•    Get in touch with us (see below Contact),

•    Take advantage of the consultations and workshops offered by the LIDO Agency,

•    Read the LIDO handbooks and apply them to your practical work,

•    And get familiar with LIDO XML example records   (see for ex. the  handbooks for Painting and Sculpture and Architecture).

Besides the LIDO handbooks, we would also like to draw your attention to two LIDO application profiles: the “Minimum Record Recommendation for Museums and Collections (v1.1)” and “DDB-LIDO”, the application profile for providing data to the German Digital Library.

Please feel free to contact us with any comments or questions you may have regarding the LIDO standard and how it is used for object documentation (see Contact Us).