Goobi (Abbr. of Göttingen online-objects binaries) is an open-source software suite intended to support mass digitisation projects for cultural heritage institutions. The software implements international standards such as METS, MODS and other formats maintained by the Library of Congress. Goobi consists of several independent modules serving different purposes such as controlling the digitization workflow, enriching descriptive and structural metadata, and presenting the results to the public in a modern and convenient way. It is used by archives, libraries, museums, publishers and scanning utilities.[4]
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| Developer(s) | intranda GmbH[1] |
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| Initial release | 2004 |
| Stable release | 24.09.9[2] 
/ 29 October 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | platform-independent |
| Available in | English, German |
| Type | Digitisation |
| License | GNU GPL[3] |
| Website | www |
Structure
editGoobi has the following properties:
- Central management of the digital copies (images)
- Central metadata management: it is possible to catalogue and integrate metadata from various locations
- Controlling mechanisms: they are used to control the progress of work of the partners
- Export and import interfaces for metadata and third-party digital copies
- Management tasks: managing error messages, completion of work steps and conveying to the next step, including changing partners
- Platform-independence: Goobi is a Web application and has to be designed in this way, as partners in digitisation of a customer are often distributed all over the world.
Components for the distributed workflow management are integrated into the product to ensure the management of a distributed communication and production among various partners.
History
editGoobi is widely used in 40 European libraries in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and UK. The workflow part of the software existed in two different forks of the original Goobi software. While the Goobi community edition was cooperatively maintained by major German libraries and digitization service providers, the Intranda edition is developed by a single company.[5][6][7]
In May 2016, the German Goobi association Goobi Digitalisieren im Verein e. V. decided to choose the new name Kitodo to avoid legal problems with the old name Goobi.[8][9]
The software Goobi will be further developed.
References
edit- ^ "Goobi. Digital Library Modules GitHub". intranda GmbH. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ "Release 24.09.9". 29 October 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ "Goobi workflow". GitHub. 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Goobi - open source software for workflow management in digitisation projects". intranda GmbH. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ Bonte, Achim (26 March 2014). "Goobi wird Verein. Anwendergemeinschaft von freier Digitalisierungssoftware schafft professionelle Strukturen". Bis - das Magazin der Bibliotheken in Sachsen - Jg. 5. 2012, H. 4. SLUB. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
- ^ "Goobi ist Verein" (in German). Goobi.Digitalisieren im Verein e. V. 2 February 2013. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ^ Harkiran Dhindsa and Rioghnach Ahern (19 October 2012). "Digesting Ingest". Digital Welcome Library. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ^ "Trademark Kitodo registered by "Goobi. Digitalisieren im Verein" e.V. at OHIM". IP CENTRAL GmbH. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ^ "Kitodo. Key to digital objects". Goobi.Digitalisieren im Verein e. V. 13 May 2016. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.