August 2018

Developments and innovations to Goobi workflow in August 2018

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 operated within the Amazon Cloud using the appropriate storage structure.

https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/ab154014f8e03ecc34973eacdd78a0564afe52cc https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/2f14bd25911d1715004dc93d3a9b863af8e1b316 https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/b591884c3d234bffefe0a49aaac7e5b2f2119ec2 https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/2c42756520a3365f078c3e94e77817edca3426f7 https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/9ef20712319f8a7b1bdad3bcb5b0dc6d4aa764ab

New type for editing fields in the METS editor

In addition to the existing editing fields such as InputBox, SelectBox, MultiSelectBox, TextArea and some others, a new type for editing metadata has been added to the METS Editor. This serves for the treatment of RichText data and permits thus a collection of texts including formatting defaults. The storage takes place thereby within the METS file as HTML.

The configuration of this new field type takes place within the file goobi_metadataDisplayRules.xml as an example:

  <htmlInput ref="TitleDocMain">
      <label></label>
  </htmlInput>

Display of the title as RichTextBox

https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/365f575e3ffd2f4fb6657f51a067be01ff5d7802

Limiting requests to GND

In order to ensure that the Common Authority File (GND) of the German National Library continues to function correctly in the event that it cannot be accessed, the GND will now only be queried with a maximum of three attempts. In the event of faulty communication, further attempts and a further waiting period for the user are thus avoided.

https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/5928186a80f72f632d48000d00ea9ff3b9817b36

New GoobiScript for adding and changing properties

In addition to the existing GoobiScripts, there are now several new scripts for editing process properties. With these new calls, it is now possible to change or delete existing properties and add new properties for multiple tasks together.

action:propertySet name:PROPERTY_TITLE value:MY_VALUE
action:propertyDelete name:PROPERTY_TITLE

New GoobiScript for properties

https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/e75188caac225af59470f2943e8dfd67b84a6f56

Limiting the display of suggestions within the METS Editor

Within the METS editor, Goobi suggests content to the user for several fields. This suggestion list has now been optically limited to a certain height, so that it is still easy to use even with a large number of suggestions.

Limited display of suggestions

https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/73bd0950899f177ca0ebd9ddb25e64b8f52426b0 https://github.com/intranda/goobi/commit/6cbc17a50807a2f363f2da9dca3ae6c11f16a912