LIDO is an XML schema intended for delivering metadata, for use in a variety of online services, from an organization’s collections database to portals of aggregated resources, as well as exposing, sharing and connecting data on the web. Its strength lies in its ability to support the typical range of descriptive information about objects of material culture. It can be used for all kinds of object, e.g. art, cultural, technology and natural science and supports multilingual portal environments.
The LIDO schema is the result of a substantial redesign and enhancement of the CDWA Lite and museumdat schemas based on recommendations of the CDWA Lite/museumdat Working Group, community feedback and further CIDOC-CRM analysis. It includes additional concepts to meet SPECTRUM requirements.
For the full history of LIDO developments refer to [lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-specification.pdf](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-specification.pdf), 2.3 History of the schema.
The LIDO schema is the result of a substantial redesign and enhancement of the CDWA Lite and museumdat schemas based on recommendations of the CDWA Lite/museumdat Working Group, community feedback and further CIDOC-CRM analysis. It mainly builds on CDWA and includes additional concepts to meet SPECTRUM requirements.
For more information on LIDO please refer to: [http://www.lido-schema.org](http://www.lido-schema.org)
The schema is developed at [https://gitlab.gwdg.de/lido/development](https://gitlab.gwdg.de/lido/development)
LIDO v1.1 is backwards compatible with LIDO v1.0. For a summary of changes please refer to the repository’s [README](https://gitlab.gwdg.de/lido/development/-/blob/master/README.md). The full history of LIDO can be found in the [LIDO v1.0 specification, Chapter 2.3 History of the schema](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-specification.pdf).
Prepared for CIDOC LIDO Working Group by LIDO-DE Working Group.
Editors: Erin Coburn, Richard Light, Jutta Lindenthal, Gordon McKenna (Collections Trust), Regine Stein (Göttingen State and University Library), Axel Vitzthum (digiCULT Verbund e.G.), Michelle Weidling (Göttingen State and University Library)
Contributors: Detlev Balzer, Regine Heuchert (Technoseum), Angela Kailus (Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg), Herdis Kley, Marco Klindt (Zuse Institute Berlin), Markus Matoni (Göttingen State and University Library), Timo Schleier (Göttingen State and University Library), Francesca Schulze (German National Library), Martin Stricker (Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik).
LIDO name and logo courtesy Rob Lancefield.
Copyright 2009-2020 ICOM-CIDOC for the LIDO Working Group.
License: [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
# Get Started
This repository contains all relevant files of the LIDO standard. The schema is described as an XML Schema Definition, the documentation and a terminology. The most recent version is **LIDO 1.1 Public Beta** and is available for download here:
-[**LIDO 1.1 Public Beta XML Schema Definition (XSD)**](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.1/lido-v1.1.xsd)
-[**LIDO 1.1 Public Beta XML Schema Definition (QA extended XSD)**](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.1/lido-v1.1.xsd)(This version extends the schema with Schematron rules to improve quality assurance)
This repository contains all relevant files of the LIDO standard. The schema is described as an XML Schema Definition, the documentation and a terminology. The most recent version is **LIDO v1.1 Public Beta** and is available for download here:
-[**LIDO v1.1 Public Beta XML Schema Definition (XSD)**](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.1/lido-v1.1.xsd)
-[**LIDO v1.1 Public Beta XML Schema Definition (QA extended XSD)**](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.1/lido-v1.1.xsd)(This version extends the schema with Schematron rules to improve quality assurance)
-[**Online documentation (HTML)**](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.1/lido-v1.1-public-beta.html)(Explore the schema from the [root element](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.1/lido-v1.1-public-beta.html#lido_lidoWrap))
- LIDO 1.0 is still available online. [XML Schema Definition](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0.xsd) - [Documentation online](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-schema-listing.html) and for [download](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-specification.pdf)
**Previous versions of LIDO:**
- LIDO v1.0 is still available online. [XML Schema Definition](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0.xsd) - [Documentation online](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-schema-listing.html) and for [download](http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-specification.pdf)
