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February
General In February 2026, the icon migration to Tabler icons was completed in almost all plugins. In addition, the security of REST interfaces has been improved, new plugins for working with archival ...
January
General In January 2026, the replacement of Font Awesome icons with Tabler icons across the entire Goobi workflow ecosystem was largely completed. There were also important new plugins and extensive f...
December
General In December, two major topics were in the foreground: the user interface receives a modern new look with the introduction of Tabler icons in the navigation and menu. At the same time, the Batc...
November
General In November, the focus was on performance and search: the search in the core was significantly accelerated by full-text indexes and database indexes. In addition, a new lightbox component, ima...
October
General In October, Goobi workflow was extended with a central help menu including a keyboard shortcut overview. The configuration of file groups for exports has also been made significantly more flex...
September
General In September, the METS editor was at the centre of development: Goobi workflow is receiving comprehensive support for video and audio files, including chapters, subtitles and an integrated vid...
August
General The major overhaul of the documentation platform continued in August. In addition, there were also innovations in completely different areas. Among other things, Goobi now offers the option of...
July
General July was our infrastructure month. We revised several aspects of the deployment of Goobi workflow with regard to Docker. The documentation also underwent a major overhaul. Core Docker installa...
June
General This month, we have been working hard internally on the future plugin for ingesting data into the ARCHE system of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. But there are also innovations in other area...
May
General This month we have made some visual adjustments to improve accessibility and usability. We also finalised a major construction site regarding the process properties. There were new features in...
April
General This month, we primarily caught up on a number of digests. These had been somewhat neglected in recent months. However, they have now been fully updated. Of course, we also worked in other are...
March
General information As expected, the changeover to Java 21 has brought us some additional work. The changes related to both the infrastructure and the user interface, where we completed the Bootstrap ...
February
General information This month we were finally able to finalise the major conversion of Goobi workflow and all plugins to Java 21. Due to the complexity, we expect that there will certainly be some re...
January
General A lot of development work has taken place this month to migrate Goobi workflow and all plugins to Java 21. However, as the work is so extensive, we have decided not to publish a release this m...
December
General With this last version of the year, we are probably releasing the last Goobi workflow release that can still be operated under Java 11 and Tomcat 9. From next month, we will begin the transiti...
November
General As the October release was published relatively late, there was not much time left in November to develop new features. The digest is correspondingly shorter. Core Adjustments to the vocabular...
October
General This month's release comes a little late and is correspondingly extensive. We will limit ourselves here to the most important points of this month. Core Access restrictions for metadata The UG...
September
General As in previous years, the big user meeting was held in Göttingen again this year. Nevertheless, we were still able to achieve a lot this month. Core Conversion to Java 17 We have changed the s...
August
General The new vocabulary server is finally ready and has already gone live. But many other areas of Goobi have also received new features this month. Core New vocabulary server Goobi workflow has al...
July
General This month, the focus was on three things in particular: remodelling the vocabulary, implementing the new archive management system and developing the plugin for the Austrian housing fund. Cor...
June
General This month, the focus was mainly on implementing the new vocabulary management system. However, the archive management has also been given a new look. Core More flexible folder configuration F...
May
General The changes to the Maven infrastructure described in April have taken much longer than expected. However, progress has also been made in other areas, for example with the vocabularies and some...
April
General Attention The major changeover in the Maven architecture of Goobi workflow and the plugins was completed in April. Due to the large amount of rework, we recommend that you only use the May rel...
March
General Attention The major changeover in the Maven architecture of Goobi workflow and the plugins is in full swing, which is why there will be no Goobi workflow release in March. Core Config Editor T...
February
General Attention We are planning a major change to the Maven architecture of Goobi workflow and the plugins in the coming months. This internal work may temporarily affect the way developers and syst...
January
General Attention We are planning a major change to the Maven architecture of Goobi workflow and the plugins in the coming months. This internal work may temporarily affect the way developers and syst...
December
Core Tables Finally, the column width can be customised within Goobi workflow. The information is saved in the browser's local storage. Once a setting has been made, it is therefore linked to the PC a...
November
Core Process properties The process properties available in Goobi workflow can now also be displayed as a text area. They are configured using the familiar goobiprocessProperties.xml. An example confi...
October
Core Harvester Much of the functionality of the intranda harvester has been integrated into the Goobi workflow core. Repositories of different types can now be created and configured. The harvester qu...
September
Core Usability The Goobi workflow creation screen has always prevented a process with the same name from being created again. You would then receive a short error message saying that the process alrea...
August
Core Usability We are always looking for small areas in the user interface in order to specifically improve usability. In August, it was the area of actions within an assumed task, where we tried to c...
July
Coming soon GoobiScript changes Documentation of step details Core GoobiScript Templates It often happens that several GoobiScript calls have to be made in succession. Often the calls are repeated bec...
June
Coming soon GoobiScript templates Documentation of step details Core API Token In the settings of one's own user account, there is a new tab in which an API token can be generated and equipped with th...
May
Coming soon Documentation of step details Personal API Token Core Error and correction messages Error and correction messages can be sent in an accepted task. New is that now an optional dropdown menu...
April
Coming soon Documentation of step details Improved PDF-A generation Core User interface We have worked several hundred hours in the background on it and in the result only little changes at the surfac...
March
Coming soon Porting of user interface to new framework Documentation of step details Improved PDF-A generation REST API Core Periodic tasks For some time now, Goobi workflow has been able to trigger c...
February
Coming soon Porting of user interface to new framework Periodic tasks * Documentation of step details Core Performance A bottleneck in the performance of SQL queries with "Like" queries could be ident...
January
Coming soon Porting of user interface to new framework Periodic tasks Documentation of step details Core ALTO Editor The ALTO Editor for OCR correction, which can be opened in the Metadata Editor if r...
December
Announcements December was marked in the project by the upcoming end of the year: A lot of housekeeping and the attempt to tidy up and finish small things to start with air and a clean desk / project ...
November
Projects easydb Together with a partner we developed a process chain that allows to import records exported from an easydb fully automatically into Goobi workflow, to process them and to export them i...
October
Core Better display of validation results in the metadata editor In Goobi workflow, the rule set can be used to control which metadata may occur, for example, how often, where they are permitted and w...
September
Core Saving in the metadata editor Within the metadata editor, we noticed that different browsers reacted differently when users clicked on the save button. Specifically, the Chrome and Safari web bro...
August
Core General layout changeover to Bootstrap 5 We already announced it. Some users may have already noticed that the layout will change minimally (at first): We are gradually changing the layout of Goo...
July
Core Generation of URLs for the SRU Interface and the IIIF Manifest In the project settings there are now two additional fields in the tab METS Parameter to record the URL to the SRU interface of the ...
June
Opac Plugin for Kalliope documented The plugin has been around for a long time. But somehow we haven't found the time to document the plugin yet, and so one could almost think that Goobi has no connec...
May
Display of the number of images in tasks and activities Within the user interface, it is now possible to display the number of images as a column. This can be done within the task list as well as in t...
April
Step plugin for the generation of run sheets We have developed a new plugin that automates the generation of dockets during the workflow. Up to now, it was already possible to download routing slips i...
March
New GoobiScript for changing person roles For some time now, there have been various GoobiScripts that can very conveniently make changes even to metadata in bulk. In the past, we have often focused o...
February
Flip functionality in the QA plugin Within the plugin for the quality control of files, it has already been possible for some time that specific individual files can also be changed, provided that thi...
January
Extension of the user settings for individual configuration of the display mode Within the user settings, there is now the option in the General section for each user to individually define the displa...
December
Security vulnerability Log4j Like many other well-known software solutions and websites, Goobi workflow was also affected by the security vulnerability within the Log4j programme library. At least the...
November
Better display in case of metadata that cannot be imported When a process is created in Goobi workflow and data from a catalogue is to be imported for it, it can occasionally happen that it has not al...
October
Coming soon - Extension of the plugin for issue recognition of newspapers - Support of S3 as storage in further plug-ins - Enhanced accessibility for tables - AEON plugin development - Documentation a...
September
Coming soon - New plugin for editing configuration files - New plugin for editing rule sets - Adjustments to the institution display - AEON plugin Print view for metadata revised About two years ago w...
August
Coming soon Development of a new capture plugin for integration with Atlas AEON Development of a new plugin for editing configuration files from the user interface Development of a new plugin for edit...
July
Coming soon Performance optimisations for very large data sets Development of a new capture plug-in for integration with Atlas AEON Development of a plugin for simultaneous processing of metadata from...
June
Coming soon Outsourcing of some statistics to plugins with refreshing of the user interface Implementation of a new search syntax Revision of the internal folder structure to comply with the Maven con...
May
Coming soon Extension of the Archive Management Plugin Extended Java 11 support Adaptation of the export options Extension of the handling of museum data from LIDO New functionality for full text edit...
April
Coming soon Implementation of an ALTO editor for editing full texts Extensions to the dashboard Adaptations to the caching Major restructuring of metadata groups The metadata editor now allows metadat...
March
Coming soon Extension of metadata group support Flex editor for capturing manuscripts and more New pagination type for double pages Markup of double pages in METS Support for IIIF URLs within the Vari...
February
Coming soon Extension of the processing of GoobiScripts New rights management for the execution of GoobiScript Better support for corporate bodies and metadata groups Flex editor for capturing manuscr...
January
Coming soon Flex editor for capturing handwriting and more Extension of rights management for individual GoobiScripts Enhancement of the dashboard Better support for corporate bodies New function for ...
December
Coming soon Extension of LayoutWizzard functionalities Extension of the documentation for many existing plugins Implementation of metadata transfer from images Extension for handling corporate bodies ...
November
Coming soon Final work on the archive management plugin Extension of the Flex editor for provenances * Extension of the vocabulary management New single sign-on authentication for users based on HTTP ...
October
Coming soon Extension of single sign-on support Implementation of checksum comparisons for exports Completion of accessibility work according to WCAG Swagger support Workflow plugin for exporting a co...
September
Coming soon Completion of the tectonics editor Extension of the manuscript editor with provenance information Implementation of a multi-process editor Implementation of a tectonics editor Data managem...
August
Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Implementation of a tectonics processing mask Extension of metadata processing for a better handling of corporate bodies...
July
Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Completion of WCAG compatibility Revision of the process creation page to use the data of the respective ruleset Extensi...
June
Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Extension of the folder management per process Accessibility according to WCAG * Enabling a cross-process possibility fo...
May
Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: LayoutWizzard Refactoring Conversion of the Goobi code to use CDI Accessibility according to WCAG 2.1 Display of audio a...
April
Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Refactorization of the LayoutWizzard plugin for automatic image cropping Conversion of the Goobi code to use CDI Extensi...
March
Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: LayoutWizzard extensions Audio and Video integrations Documentation Extension of the vocabulary functionalities Projects...
February
Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Further expansion of scalability to cloud infrastructure Completion of the flexible editor for handwriting capture Autom...
January
Coming soon Migration of Goobi workflow for Java 11 support Extension of the vocabulary manager * Implementation of a flexible editor for manuscript indexing Capture of image sections for structural a...
December
Multi-client capability in Goobi workflow With the current release, Goobi workflow is now multi-client capable. To this end, Goobi workflow now has institutions to which the routing slips, rule sets, ...
November
Two new GoobiScripts Two new GoobiScripts have been added: deleteUserGroup removes a user group from steps renameStep renames a step in multiple processes Single sign on with openID Connect Goobi work...
October
New REST endpoint for file upload into an operation. A file can now be copied to one of the image folders of an operation via multipart POST. The endpoint looks like this: POST https://mygoobi.tld/goo...
September
New login screen There is a new login screen that better reflects the "workflow" in the name. Removed intermediate session screen If you were already logged in as a user and tried this again in anothe...
August
ActiveMQ queues are now displayed Already [some time ago](/en/workflow/digests/2019/04) we added a new queue to Goobi. There hasn't been much of this queue so far, it did its work quietly in the backg...
July
Optimizing the image display Previously, the entire process was fetched from the database if an image from this process was to be displayed. This has now been optimized so that database queries are no...
June
Integration of VIAF for authority data acquisition A search in the [VIAF](https://viaf.org/) has been integrated into the metadata editor. In this way, the authority databases from 40 countries can be...
May
Adjustments to the mass import screen The interface for the mass import of Goobi workflow has been massively revised. Previously, users had to select the correct import mechanism and then import the p...
April
Thumbnails folder per process Goobi workflow has now been extended so that thumbnails can now also be used in addition to the directories already used for the master files and derivatives. After compl...
March
Better display of results for script executions If a GoobiScript was faulty, the red error status was a good indicator, but the cause was often not visible. Therefore the display was extended to show ...
February
Display of longer OCR results within the METS editor now scrollable If the results of a full-text recognition were displayed within the METS editor, the full-text recognition has been abbreviated for ...
January
Usability adjustments for the boxes within the METS Editor Within Goobi's METS editor, there were a few minor improvements in usability. For example, the title bars of the boxes can now be clicked acr...
December
Extended support of standard data via DANTE In addition to the metadata fields for texttareas, select menus, read-only fields or the connection of [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) and [GND](https...
November
Final conversion to maven as build-tool After extensive testing, the internal management of program libraries and interaction with the 170 plug-ins currently available were converted to [Maven](https:...
October
Optimized image display within the METS editor The metadata editor has been reworked for a better image display. In particular for the ideal display with consideration of image height and image width ...
September
Individual styling of Goobi Goobi has been enhanced so that users can now influence the visual design. Using smaller CSS instructions, each user can now adjust colors, fonts, spacing and much more for...
August
Support of S3 as storage system for Goobi workflow After several months of development, support for S3 as a storage system for Goobi workflow has now been integrated. This means that Goobi can now be ...
July
Support of 3D objects in the entire workflow After several months of work on support for processing and displaying 3D objects, the first milestone has now been reached. 3D objects are now supported in...
June
New GoobiScript for editing metadata There are now several new GoobiScripts for manipulating metadata within METS files. This GoobiScript, like all others, can be called and executed simultaneously fo...
May
Storage of file sizes within the Goobi database In order to guarantee the possibility to generate further individual statistics, from now on the respective storage space within the database is also ca...
Digests
At this point we provide a detailed insight into our current developments. We try to keep them relatively up to date and to summarize for each month if possible what innovations or changes have been m...
February
Coming soon Centralised announcements of maintenance work Support for the METS/MODS from the DDB newspaper portal Developments General There is not much visible to report from February. We mainly focu...
January
Coming soon Centralised announcements of maintenance work Support for the METS/MODS from the DDB newspaper portal Developments Technical The January release of the Goobi viewer contains no new feature...
December
Coming soon Tomcat 10 support Announcements Be sure to note We are planning various breaking changes for the January 2025 release: Support for Tomcat 10 Support for Java 21 Syntax changes in the confi...
November
Coming soon Access-restricted metadata Tomcat 10 support Image change via scrolling and without reloading the page Announcements Be sure to note We are planning various breaking changes for the Januar...
October
Coming soon Access-restricted metadata Tomcat 10 support Announcements Be sure to note We are planning various breaking changes for the January 2025 release: Support for Tomcat 10 Support for Java 21 ...
September
Coming soon Access-restricted metadata Metadata: Configuration and display Announcements Attention With this version, the Solr internal management of Iddocs will be changed to an alternative data type...
August
Coming soon Multiple masks within the advanced search Access restrictions for metadata Announcements Note In July and August, the Goobi viewer team will only be available to a limited extent due to va...
July
Coming soon Year selection in calendar search as overview Technical metadata from images Access restrictions for metadata Announcements Note In July and August, the Goobi viewer team will only be avai...
June
Coming soon technical metadata from images S3 storage Access restrictions for metadata Announcements Note In July and August, the Goobi viewer team will only be available to a limited extent due to va...
May
Coming soon Revision of EAD structures technical metadata from images S3 storage Access restrictions for metadata Developments Backend: Themes The Goobi viewer backend offers the option of configuring...
April
Coming soon Revision of EAD structures Styling of booleans in the faceting new CMS elements technical metadata from images Developments Live preparation of records The Goobi viewer can now retrieve ex...
March
Coming soon Live preparation of records Revision of EAD structures Accessibility Developments Widgets It's been a long time coming, but now it's finally here. The "Cite and reuse" widget has been spli...
February
Coming soon IIIF manifests with only one image New widgets for download, metadata, links and citation Live preparation of records Revision of EAD structures Developments Solr The biggest change in Feb...
January
Coming soon Solr 9 IIIF manifests with only one image New widgets for download, metadata, links and citation Live preparation of records Announcements Be sure to note With the January release of the G...
December
Coming soon Java 17 and Solr 9 IIIF manifests with only one image New widgets for download, metadata, links and citation Live preparation of data sets Announcements Attention On January 1, 2024, we pl...
November
Coming soon Search engine optimisation Live preparation of data sets Announcements Note On January 1, 2024, we plan to make Java 17 mandatory for new installations and updates. An update to the curren...
October
Coming soon Search engine optimisation Live preparation of data sets Announcements Note On January 1, 2024, we plan to make Java 17 mandatory for new installations and updates. An update to the curren...
September
Coming soon Maps Search engine optimisation * Live preparation of data sets Developments Search in CMS pages The text content of CMS pages can optionally be indexed so that they can be found in a sear...
August
Coming soon * Text as main view for records Developments TEI display What was previously realised via a custom module is now integrated into the Goobi viewer core: A native TEI display. The use case c...
July
Coming soon Search results groups Text as main view for records Developments External download links It sometimes happens that in METS files there is a DOWNLOAD file group, in which a URL to a PDF fil...
June
Coming soon Search results groups external download links for records Developments Highlights Whether as "object of the month", "treasures from the inventory" or simply highlights: In the backend, dat...
May
Coming soon Highlights Search results groups Developments Search results There have been several small developments for the display of search results. For example, search results can now optionally be...
April
Coming soon Highlights Search results groups Announcements Note We are hiring and looking for Web designers (m/f/d) and Java developers (m/f/d) to support our team. In the background we are fully occu...
March
Coming soon Highlights Search results groups Announcements Note We are hiring and looking for Web designers (m/f/d) and Java developers (m/f/d) to support our team. Developments PDF generation In Janu...
February
Coming soon Compact and high-resolution PDF files Highlights Announcements In February we worked a lot on projects and less on the Core itself. That's why this month's digest is shorter than usual. De...
January
Coming soon Compact and high-resolution PDF files Developments Faceting The new element "faceting" has been developed for CMS pages. It is a mixture of a search results list and the restriction by let...
December
Coming soon Compact and high-resolution PDF files Developments CMS Finally it's here. We've been talking about it for a long time and developing it for far too long, but the initial impact for the ove...
November
Coming soon Revision of the CMS area Compact and high-resolution PDF files Developments SAML / Shibboleth Already in April 2020, a first SAML implementation for authentication was adopted in the Goobi...
October
Coming soon Revision of the CMS area Compact and high-resolution PDF files Authentication Developments Search The interface for the advanced search has been completely revised. In doing so, we broke a...
September
Coming soon Revision of the CMS area Revision of the advanced search Announcements In September we worked a lot on the Coming Soon features. Unfortunately, these are not yet ready for the release, so ...
August
Coming soon Revision of the CMS area Revision of the advanced search Goobi users meeting :tada: Developments Config Editor Finally, the configuration files of the Goobi viewer can be edited directly i...
July
Coming soon Innovations in access restrictions Revision of the CMS area Display of access status and usage licence Access statistics Announcements In August, the Goobi viewer team will have limited av...
June
Coming soon Innovations in access restrictions Revision of the CMS area Developments E-Publications General Together with the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB), we are developing an open sour...
May
Coming soon Innovations in access restrictions Revision of the CMS area Behind the scenes In the first half of the year we have already completed many projects. We would like to mention two of them he...
April
Coming soon Upload of records Revision of the CMS area Innovations in access restrictions Developments Maps If many markers are to be displayed on a map, markers that are close to each other are group...
March
Coming soon Performance for maps with many pins Upload of records * Revision of the CMS area Developments Disclaimer Modal Time and again it happens that an additional context is necessary for display...
February
Coming soon Display of a disclaimer for records Comment views * Upload of records Announcements :flagua: This Digest comes at a time when war has broken out in Europe. We are receiving horrific news f...
January
Coming soon Cookie banner management Display of a disclaimer for records CMS page as start page for records Upload of records Developments Backend As announced in the December Digest, we have changed ...
December
Coming soon Changes to the search algorithm Cookie banner management Announcements Like every year, December is again a very short month for us. That's why the December release contains only minor cod...
November
Coming soon Changes to the search algorithm Cookie banner management Announcements As mentioned last month, we would like to work on the search in the coming months. If there is interest in designing ...
October
Coming soon Comments revision Changes to the search algorithm Announcements We plan to devote some time in the coming months to reworking search. As a rule, changes in these code areas are difficult t...
September
Coming soon Comments revision Docker container User dashboard in the frontend Developments Docker With the September release, the Docker setup is taking shape. A large number of works were published t...
August
Coming soon Comments revision Docker container User page in the frontend Announcements Attention As already announced in the last two digests, Java 11 will be mandatory from this release. If a system ...
July
Coming soon Comments revision Docker container User page in the frontend Announcements In August, the Goobi viewer team will have limited availability due to various annual vacations. Note As already ...
June
Coming soon Revision of the feedback form Improvements to the citation links User page in the frontend Announcements We have been using Java 11 in development for some time now. Even with new installa...
May
Coming soon Collection configuration in the backend User page in the frontend Developments Crowdsourcing campaigns Until now, the units in campaigns have always been the records themselves. But if, fo...
April
Coming soon Enhancements to the maps Crowdsourcing adjustments URL adjustments for double pages Developments IIIF The Goobi viewer Core now implements the IIIF Presentation API and the IIIF Image API ...
March
Coming soon Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces Enhancements to the maps Crowdsourcing adjustments Developments Metadata Users who put a lot of love into their metadata can now present it even better. ...
February
Coming soon Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces Enhancements to the maps Crowdsourcing adjustments Announcements With each release we also make available on Github a ready compiled version with the ref...
January
Coming soon Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces Themes with right-to-left reading direction * Emptying caches from the user interface Announcements Goobi viewer has synchronised the versioning scheme w...
December
Coming soon Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces Themes with right-to-left reading direction Record based hints with formatted text General In the last days of December there have been no significant de...
November
Coming soon Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces Themes with right-to-left reading direction Record based hints with formatted text Announcement In the first quarter of 2021, extensive changes will be m...
October
Coming soon Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces WCAG Display of a tectonic Developments Campaigns The work in this version was entirely in the light of crowdsourcing campaigns. In many places there hav...
September
Coming soon Expansion of crowdsourcing campaigns Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces WCAG Developments Terms of use Terms of use can now be stored in the Goobi viewer backend. A new area is available i...
August
Coming soon Expansion of crowdsourcing campaigns Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces Data sets without images on the reading lists Announcement In September, the Goobi viewer team will only be availabl...
July
Coming soon Expansion of crowdsourcing campaigns Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces Data sets without images on the reading lists Announcement In August and September, the Goobi viewer team will only ...
June
Coming soon Expansion of crowdsourcing campaigns Adjustments to the IIIF interfaces Data sets without images on the reading lists Developments Backend One and a half years ago we introduced a new desi...
May
Coming soon :tools: improved usability in the Admin Backend :computer: REST API Developments Maps The functionality of the cards presented in April is extended with this release. From now on, the desi...
April
Coming soon :map: Maps :tools: improved usability in the Admin Backend :computer: REST API General This month, we will mainly report on the development itself. The new possibilities with the maps are ...
March
Coming soon :closedlockwithkey: Shibboleth :map: Maps :tools: improved usability in the Admin Backend General Despite the many circumstances and changes, the Goobi viewer has again seen a great deal o...
February
Coming soon :interrobang: Conditions for displaying metadata :closedlockwithkey: Shibboleth :map: Maps General A lot has happened in the last few weeks! Various Goobi viewer instances have been update...
January
Coming soon :interrobang: Conditions for displaying metadata :closedlockwithkey: Shibboleth :map: Maps General The new year is off to a cracking start. There are some great new features in the Goobi v...
December
Coming soon :bookmark: Public reading lists :interrobang: Conditions for displaying metadata :closedlockwith_key: Shibboleth General An updated version of Goobi-to-go was released at the end of the ye...
November
Coming soon :bookmark: Public reading lists :pencil: A revised guide to setting up the development environment :interrobang: Conditions for displaying metadata General We are pleased to announce the r...
October
Coming soon :magright: Support for the IIIF Content Search API :bookmark: Public reading lists * :pencil: A revised guide to setting up the development environment General At the user meeting it was h...
September
In September, the campaign functionality in the Goobi viewer was completed. This lays the foundation for further development at the open source crowdsourcing functionality. Completion was accompanied ...
August
August brings some minor improvements to the Goobi viewer. This month's highlight is a small change to the login screen, the first fully merged pull request from the community! Previous change request...
July
As announced, July was a quiet month, albeit a very special one! Never before in one month have there been so many external contributions from the community as in the past. No less than three independ...
June
We are pleased about the activation of MNHA Collections. Here the Musée national d'histoire et d'art from Luxembourg presents the first digitized collections. The special feature is the complete trili...
May
In May there was a lot going on behind and beside the scenes. There is also an important announcement. We are very happy that the Goobi viewer instance ORKA and the crowdsourcing module of the Goobi v...
April
April has once again brought exciting topics to the fore. There were developments in the context of social media, different things to improve the usability in the CMS or restructuring within the docum...
March
As always, a lot has happened over the past month. For example, the Goobi viewer at Stuttgart University Library was updated and the installation of the Vorarlberg State Library in Bregenz was put int...
February
In February the Goobi viewer instance of the Chamber of Labour in Vienna was updated. As part of this update, the sub-theme possibilities around the CMS were further refined in order to be able to edi...
January
The new year has started with fresh energy into the Goobi viewer development and there will be a lot of reports in January. First of all we would like to mention the great social media work on Twitter...
December
The year is drawing to a close and we look back with pride on the past 12 months of Goobi viewer development. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all users who have again contributed ...
November
In November the Goobi viewer of the Wiener Library in London went online. Based on METS/MODS and TEI documents, the portal presents eyewitness accounts and reports from the 1938 pogrom night. The inst...
October
In October we are pleased to announce the publication of the digitalized estates of Kurt W. Rothschild and Josef Steindl of WU Vienna at the following address: [https://viewer.wu.ac.at](https://viewer...
September
The month of September was dominated by the Goobi user meeting. All slides of the presentations can be found in the media corner on intranda.com: [https://www.intranda.com/news/media/](https://www.int...
August
August was also marked by the summer holidays. Beside several smaller bugfixes there were feature developments in two areas. Developments Crowdsourcing User-generated content captured in crowdsourcing...
July
Due to the summer holidays, the development speed of the Goobi viewer slowed down in July. Work has been done more "under the hood", but there are also new features to be seen on the surface. In addit...
June
In June, the University Library of Kassel held an event on crowdsourcing. ORKA and the Grimm-Portal were presented together with the crowdsourcing module and its possibilities. We are pleased about th...
May
In May, three customers received an update of the Goobi viewer: 1. Digital Library Mecklenburg Vorpommern 2. Digital State Library Berlin 3. eLiechtensteinensia We are also proud that the Grimm portal...
April
The month of April was characterised by two main themes 1. Implementation of the IIIF Presentation API. 2. Bugfixing and refactoring To the IIIF Presentation API more than first point among the develo...
March
Various new features have also been added to the Goobi viewer in March. This month, however, they are mainly to be found under the hood. We were delighted to hear that the Kassel UB is now represented...
February
In February, the University Library of Kiel and the National Library in Liechtenstein received an update of the Goobi viewer: [http://dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de/viewer/](http://dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de/viewer...
January
January's work in the Goobi viewer team was characterised above all by the development and implementation of individual customer wishes. The crowdsourcing module at HLB Fulda went online. Welcome to t...
December
Even though the month of December and the year 2017 are not yet over, the development work for this month has been completed. There are several new features to report. First of all, we are proud that ...
November
In November, two Goobi viewer instances received an update to the current stable version: [http://hauspublikationen.mak.at](http://hauspublikationen.mak.at) [https://haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de](...
October
In October we are happy about the release of the new theme of the HLB-Fulda: [http://fuldig.hs-fulda.de](http://fuldig.hs-fulda.de) [https://www.hs-fulda.de/hlb/ueber-die-hlb/aktuelles/meldungsdetails...
September
Developments In September, the Goobi viewer was used for various development projects, which are summarized here once again in a nutshell. Search In the search there were improvements and bugfixes. Fo...