People have suggested that we should take a look at LIDO, a new harvesting format developed by the ATHENA project. The website tells me that 'LIDO is an harvesting schema for delivering metadata for use in the service environment of an organisation’s online collections database, portals, and aggregations, including Europeana itself. Its strength lies with its ability to support the full range of descriptive information about museum objects'.

It could be interesting, but archaeological monuments and historic buildings are not the same as museum objects and so I wonder how well it will fit our data. The project's metadata working group will enjoy taking a good look at it once they start their work!

More information about the LIDO scheme is available on the ATHENA project website.