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Create new structure element
Moving structure elements
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Edit OCR results
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‘import’ sub-directory
‘metadata’ sub-directory
‘plugins’ sub-directory
‘rulesets’ sub-directory
‘scripts’ sub-directory
‘xslt’ sub-directory
Directory structure of the application
Integrating external storage
Integration of S3 as storage
Services
MySQL database
Apache Tomcat servlet container
User authentication using LDAP
File system access using Samba
Exporting to digital libraries
Technical data
Mets parameters
Mets file groups
Export configuration in the Goobi configuration file
Working with the intranda Task Manager
Automatic workflow steps
Example combination for an automatic script task
Migration of technical data to METS files
Automatic image deletion
Configuration files
goobi_activemq.xml
goobi_config.properties
goobi_digitalCollections.xml
goobi_exportXml.xml
goobi_mail.xml
goobi_metadataDisplayRules.xml
goobi_normdata.xml
goobi_opac.xml
goobi_opacUmlaut.txt
goobi_processProperties.xml
goobi_projects.xml
goobi_rest.xml
goobi_webapi.xml
messages_xx.properties
config_contentServer.xml
goobi_configeditor.xml
goobi_ruleseteditor.xml
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Authentication
Authentication via the database
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Create thumbnails for accelerated image display
Handling of 3D Objects
Export of 3D-Objects into the Goobi viewer
Development
Development environment
Preparatory work
Download source code and demo data
Setting up the development environment
Best practice for developing Goobi and working with Eclipse
Using the REST API
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Administration
ACTApro synchronisation
ARCHE Project export
Archive Management
Using the plugin
Configuration of the plugin
Configuration editor
Copy Master-Anchor
Data Poller
Goobi-to-Goobi
Installation and configuration
Creation of the export directories
Transfer of the export directories
Importing the export directories
Licences
Reset pagination
Restoring archived image folders
Ruleset Compatibility
Ruleset editor
Dashboards
Barcode scanner Dashboard
Extended Dashboard
Exports
Customised export for the DMS Imagen Media Archive Management
Exporting ARCHE data to the Goobi viewer
Single Page Export
Configurable export
Fedora Export PROV
Fedora Export
Heris Export
Export for newspapers to the portal of the German Digital Library
PDF export to the NLI directory structure
Export of selected images
Stanford Export
VLM Export
Export Plugin for generating METS/MODS files analogous to LIMB
HAAB Export
ZOP Export
Generic
Barcode Scanner
Imports
Legacy data import for the Austrian Federal Monuments Authority
Archive data import
Data import without catalogue query for ETH Zurich
Importing records from an Excel file
Import of card catalogues from KatZoom
Importing MAB Files
Import of Sisis SunRise Files
Import for journal articles from an Endnote Export
Data import with ALMA catalogue query for Zurich Central Library
Data import with CMI catalogue query for Zurich Central Library
Data import without catalogue query for the Zentralbibliothek Zurich
Metadata
Change Publication Type
Metadata extension for the creation of structural elements per image
OPAC
Ariadne Import
EAD data transfer
Generic XML Import
Generic JSON Import
Kalliope Import
MARC Import
PICA Import
Soutron Import
Repeated Jobs
Data import for the Austrian Housing Promotion Fund
HERIS Vocabulary Update
Statistics
Sudan Memory Translations
Visualisation of the throughput per user
Steps
OCR with ABBYY FineReader Server
Enriching ACTApro documents
ALMA API Plugin
Automatic pagination based on file names
Data delivery to ARCHE
Validation of metadata and properties for ARCHE ingest
Archiving image folders
Generating Archival Resource Keys (ARK)
Libsafe Integration
Assign batch
Batch Progress Plugin
Catalogue Request
Changing the workflow based on process properties
Generation of PDF files
Conditional workflow status delay
Delay Workflow
Delete Content
Display of metadata and folder contents in a task
Plugin for DOI registration
Downloading and verifying files
Duplication of work steps
ePIC PID Registration (Handle & DOI)
EWIG Long term archiving
Metadata enrichment via Excel file
Package Export
Copying files from metadata fields
Upload files
File validation
Flex Editor
GDZ Image Import
Generate ALTO IDs
Generate Identifier
Generate properties
Geonames Annotation
GeoNames Correction
Automatic Handle Assignment
Heris data import
Extraction of image metadata
Image scaling and watermarking
Selection of images
Quality control of images
Metadata transfer from a directory
Metadata Cleaning
LayoutWizzard
Using the plugin
Preview
Image area
Display and navigation options
Single page view
Folder and file options
Current image
General settings
File list
Save view
Working steps
Selected analysis step
Global cutting options
Technical details
Installation
Configuration of the LayoutWizzard
Configuration of the user interface
Workflow
Conversion of scores in MEI format
Metadata edition
Capture metadata per image
Automatic enrichment of metadata from own vocabularies
Structure data import from an Excel file
Update Metadata Fields
Automatic METS enrichment with image files and pagination
Enrich METS file
Data migration from Visual Library
MIX Metadata Enrichment Plugin
OCR execution with mixed fonts
Ingest in MyCoRe
Archive node creation and process splitting
OCR page selection
Transfer OCR result to metadata field
Object Identifier Generation
Correction of tables of contents after an OLR
Control of Issue Recognition within Newspapers
Data import for Book Interchange files
Split PDFs, extract full text and read table of contents
Electronic Publications
Generation of placeholder images
Process folder migration
Enrich structural data from CSV
Renaming files before the Rosetta ingest
Renaming files
Renaming Processes
Reorder Images
Replace images
Automatic setting of the representative
Reverse Image Order
Generation of docket files
Sending emails
Split processes
Import of ECHO files as TEI
Tif-Validation
Transcription of image content
Import and download from Transkribus Collections
OCR using Transkribus
Updating and creating archive nodes
Creation of Uniform Resource Names (URN)
User Assignment
Validation of metadata fields
Vocabulary enrichment
Waiting for Other Processes
Step Plugins for Exporting XML Files for Fedora Ingest
Writing XMP metadata to image files
Metadata validation within a task
Invoices and delivery notes for user orders
Workflow
AEON data transfer
Barcode Generator
Percentage-based quality control of deliveries
Close steps
Entity Editor - Artist Dictionary
Generic import plugin for excel files including validation
Process creation through file upload
Mass import from Excel data with EAD enrichment
Generic import plugin for JSON files
LayoutWizzard workflow plugin
Create process relationships
Mass upload
Import of newspaper issues as single pages
Project export as folder with images and Excel file
Mass import for brand studies and advertising material
TMS Import (Import of XML data)
Data transfer from AIM25
Goobi viewer
Manual
Overview
Documentation areas
About the Goobi viewer
Roles and rights
Configuration
Goobi viewer Core
Local settings
Translations
Folder configuration
URL configuration
User accounts
Authentication Provider
Sending e-mails
Further settings
Technical accounts and service accounts
Performance
Access conditions and images
Captcha
PDF download
Variants
Download Links
Individual PDF title page
ePub download
Image options
Extended scrolling in the image view
Navigation between structure types
Image view configuration
Maintaining zoom and rotation while browsing in the image view
External images
Restriction of image scaling
Thumbnail settings
Image Footer
Individual page types
Opening certain document types in alternative page views
Full text hints
Language settings
Themes
Search
Sorting
Faceting
Advanced search
Timeline
Calendar
Save search
Expand query for search sub-results
Aggregated search hit display
Versioning of records
Exporting search results
Search hit metadata display options
Digital collections
Collection hierarchy
Sorting of records
Sorting of collections
Blacklist
Collection size
Further settings
Structure element whitelist
Metadata
Main metadata
Sidebar metadata
Search hit metadata
Archive metadata
Image metadata
Display of authority data
Browsing
Multilingual metadata
Licenses
Tables of contents
Main table of contents
Sidebar table of contents
Download tables of content as PDF file
Tag clouds
Resolver
Sidebar
Navigation and display
RSS feed
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CMS
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Original content
Piwik/Matomo
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API
JSON
IIIF
Authentication
CORS
OpenSearch
Embedding
Maps
Translations
Archive
Campaigns
Add content
Usage figures
Config Editor
Proxy
ActiveMQ
Developer
External Ressources
Log Viewer
Goobi viewer Indexer
Main configuration
Directories
Proxy
Performance
Structure types
Metadata
Starting and Exiting
Indexing records
Updating individual page documents
Deleting records
Solr scheme
Further settings
Goobi viewer Connector
OAI interface
Main Configuration
Dublin Core
Europeana
METS
LIDO
MARCXML
Xepicur
Goobi viewer overview pages
Goobi viewer crowdsourcing
TEI
CMDI
Sets
SRU interface
Miscellaneous
Use cases
Series and convolutes
Access restrictions
Subthemes
Authority data
Multilingualism
Maps
Sub collections
Multiple Goobi viewer
Crowdsourcing module
Archival documents
Solr Queries
Linking from METS file groups
Add content
Shibboleth
Access restricted metadata
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Build tools
Gulp build process
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API
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CMS templates
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Overwrite standard XHTML pages with your own customised pages
Theme conversion to Maven
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Vocabulary Server
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Vocabulary Creation Guide
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intranda TaskManager
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What is the intranda TaskManager
Access protection
Interface and invocation via the TaskClient
User interface
Dashboard
Searching
Plugin sections
Job plugins
JPEG-2000-Generation with Lurawave
Image conversion with ImageMagick
Generating JPEG 2000 using Open JPEG
Validation of JPG2000 images with jpylyzer
Full-text recognition - OCR
Archiving with Tessella Preservica
Internet Archive download
Using intranda AltoConvert to generate ALTO files from ABBYY xml files
Downloading multi-volume source works from the Internet Archive
Importing multi-volume source works from the Internet Archive (J-import)
Validating TIFF images using JHOVE
Analysing images using intranda LayoutWizzard
Distributed storage using Storage Balancer
Generating ebooks in EPUB format
PDF generation for the Goobi viewer
Creation of a PDF document for an entire work
Upload files to the EWIG long-term archive
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Introduction
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Document model
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Content files
Metadata
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Anchor
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Definition of metadata types
Definition of metadata groups
Definition of structure types
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MARC
Introduction
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Example configurations
METS/MODS
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General configuration
Configuration of the mapping of structure and metadata
Extended METS export options
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XStream
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Definition of the Persistent Identifier in the database
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