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Cultural institutions hold extensive cultural assets that have universal and timeless value. Digitisation simplifies access and expands and multiplies the usability of the cultural treasure managed by these institutions. However, open access is often severely hampered by legal, technical, or financial constraints.
Therefore, in 2021, the most important cultural heritage institutions in the state of Hesse committed to a joint Open Access Policy. This guide explains the policy and gives people working in cultural heritage institutions – not only in Hesse – practical advice on how to implement it.

Volume 1 of the LIDO-Handbook, focusing on graphic arts, was developed in close cooperation with the members of the international network Graphik vernetzt. In order to link data from different collection systems in museums and libraries on cross-collection platforms, common standards for data content and data structure have to be applied. This practical guide lists all relevant data elements for the description of drawings and prints. Each data element contains a definition, advice for cataloguing, examples as well as additional information relevant when exporting data to the LIDO-XML format.

Volume 2 of the LIDO Handbook is dedicated to painting and sculpture. It describes a specific application profile of the internationally established metadata standard LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) and serves as a guide for the coherent structuring of information in local collection management systems. Each data field contains a definition, tips for data entry, examples as well as instructions for exporting data based on the LIDO XML schema. All recommendations support the objective of preparing data from different sources in ways that enable comprehensive and precise search results and open opportunities for further cross-linking and integration of information.