Harvesting Format for Providing Core Data from Museum Holdings
museumdat
museumdat is a harvesting format optimised for retrieval and publication, meant to deliver automatically core data to museum portals. It builds largely upon the data format 
CDWA Lite developed in the
US by the Getty, the Visual Resources Association and others, with a specific focus on
arts. museumdat now applies
for all kinds of object classes,
e.g. cultural, technology or
natural history, and is
compatible with the reference
model of the international
documentation committee 
CIDOC-CRM (ISO 21127). museumdat is an outcome of the work of Fachgruppe Dokumentation des Deutschen Museumsbundes (DMB).
News
museumdat activities are currently involved in an initiative on international level that aims at developing a common, internationally
acknowledged metadata format providing museum information for internet resource discovery:
Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO).
A Working Group "Data Harvesting and Interchange" has been established within the
Documentation Committee (CIDOC) of the
International Council of Museums (ICOM)
with the initial focus on centralizing information and activities towards the development of LIDO as standard format.
The formation of the Working Group is supported by the
CDWA Lite Advisory Committee,
the
WG Data Exchange / Fachgruppe Dokumentation im DMB,
the CDWA Lite – museumdat Working Group, and developers of
SPECTRUM.
More information about the Working Group and about LIDO will be available here.
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