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