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Kitodo

Field	Value
name	Kitodo.Presentation
qid	Q47007505
logo size	200px
logo alt	Kitodo Digital Library Modules
developer	Kitodo Community Board{{cite web
accessdate	2014-05-06
date	2013-02-02
publisher	Kitodo. Key to digital objects e. V.
title	Kitodo. Digital Library Modules GitHub
url	https://github.com/kitodo}}
released
latest release version
latest release date
programming language	PHP, JavaScript
operating system	platform-independent
language	English, German
genre	Digitisation
license	GNU GPL 3

Kitodo (Abbr. of key to digital objects) is an open-source software suite intended to support mass digitization projects for cultural heritage institutions. The software implements international standards such as METS, MODS and other formats maintained by the Library of Congress. Kitodo 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.{{cite web

Structure

Kitodo contains the two main modules Kitodo.Presentation and Kitodo.Production and the following properties:

Central management of the digital copies (images)
Central metadata management: it supports cataloguing and integration of 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 work steps and to convey to the next step, including the change of partners
Platform-independence: Kitodo 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.

The viewer module includes an indexer.

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

Until May 2016, Kitodo was known as Goobi (Abbreviation of Göttingen online-objects binaries). The workflow part of the software exists in two different forks of the original Goobi software. While the Goobi community edition, now known as Kitodo, is cooperatively maintained by major German libraries and digitization service providers, the Intranda edition is developed by a single company.{{cite web |url-status = dead Kitodo is used in at least 8 German libraries.

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.{{cite web |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160513185548/https://tmdb.eu/trademark/015325517/eu/kitodo |archive-date = 2016-05-13 |url-status = dead

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