Workshop | 18. June 2025
Documenting and Digitally Presenting Built Cultural Heritage: LIDO for Architecture and Immovable Works
Workshop LIDO-Handbuch Architektur
"Foto: Innenaufnahme Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt/ Main, Foto: Waltraud Krase, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. Hintergrundbild: LIDO-Format, Screenshot: Angela Kailus." Creator: Waltraud Krase, Angela Kailus, Owner: DDK - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg
LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) is an internationally recognised XML schema used to provide metadata about cultural objects in a variety of digital contexts. It is often used to enable data from different specialist information systems to be used together; however, common standards for data content and structure must be applied.
Describing architecture and other immovable works places particular demands on the recording, structuring and contextualisation of data.
The new LIDO handbook provides an application profile for such objects. It contains specific recommendations for documenting buildings, complexes, and other immobile objects, as well as for using controlled vocabularies.
At the online event on Wednesday, 18 June 2025 from 10:30 to 12:00, authors Julia Rössel and Angela Kailus presented the application profile and demonstrated how building-related information, such as building descriptions, construction phases, conversions, location details and references to other objects, can be structured in a precise, standard-compliant and interoperable manner. Practical examples demonstrated how LIDO can be used to represent complex objects and link them with other cultural data, ranging from monument preservation to 3D models. The more general question of how data quality influences usability and visibility was also addressed.
This event was intended for heritage conservation experts, architectural historians, building researchers and anyone else who works with metadata on site-specific works, as well as those who value sustainable, standardised data on buildings.
The LIDO Handbook on Architecture and Other Immovable Works is available to download for free or to purchase as a printed copy.
PROGRAMME
10:30-10:35 a.m. - Welcome and introduction
10:35-10:45 a.m. - Introduction to LIDO and its application profiles
10:45-11:10 a.m. - The LIDO profile for architecture and immovable works
11:15-11:30 a.m. - Interoperability and data quality
11:30-11:45 p.m. - Examples and hands-on material
11:45-12:00 p.m. - Discussion and outlook
The presentation is available for download here.