Culture Knowledge Base

An older, but still valid set standard to Web Annotations, which serves as a basis for various projects.

In its discussion impulse on the scientific, scholarly and cultural use of collections, the Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII) addressed the (future) role of collecting institutions in the digital transformation of science with regard to the framework conditions.

The LIDO Handbook is dedicated to objects of the genres painting and sculpture and is an application profile of the internationally established metadata standard LIDO, which serves as a guide for structuring information in local collection management systems.

The handbook provides graphic collections with guidance on cataloguing their objects and integrating data into cross-collection contexts. It considers both the scholarly description of the objects and the informational organisation of the data.

This handbook is an application profile of the metadata standard LIDO, providing guidance on how to create coherently structured object descriptions for architectural and other immovable objects, and how to adhere to standards for best results (sharing and linking on the Web).

The LIDO Primer provides a sound introduction to the metadata schema LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) and contains illustrative XML examples for describing objects with LIDO.

Wikidata is a rapidly growing database on all knowledge domains that has been in existence since 2012 and can be edited by anyone interested or supplemented by automated enrichment. Wikidata represents one of the most important data hubs of the Linked (Open) Data network.

LIDO is an XML schema for providing metadata on objects of material culture for various post-use contexts, from online publication to output via interfaces. It supports the full range of descriptive information on cultural property.