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Kitodo. Key to digital objects |
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Kitodo is an open source software suite intended to support mass digitization |
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projects for cultural heritage institutions. Kitodo is widely-used and |
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cooperatively maintained by major German libraries and digitization service |
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providers. |
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Kitodo consists of several independent modules serving different purposes such as |
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controlling the digitization workflow, enriching descriptive and structural |
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metadata, and presenting the results to the public in a modern and convenient |
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way. |
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Kitodo was formerly known as Goobi. |
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About Kitodo.Presentation |
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Kitodo.Presentation is a feature-rich framework for building a METS-based digital |
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library. It is highly customizable through a user-friendly backend and flexible |
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design templates. Since it is based on the great free and open source Content |
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Management System TYPO3 (http://typo3.org), it integrates perfectly with your |
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website and can easily be managed by editors. Kitodo.Presentation provides a |
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comprehensive toolset covering all requirements for presenting digitized media. |
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It implements international standards such as IIIF Image API, OAI Protocol for |
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Metadata Harvesting, METS, MODS, TEI, ALTO, and can be configured to support any |
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other descriptive XML format using simple XPath expressions. |
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About the naming of Kitodo.Presentation |
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The Kitodo Software Suite is used for digitizing huge amounts of books, journals, |
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newspapers, and other printed and hand-written material, and making it available |
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to the public. Thus Kitodo helps collecting, archiving and providing knowledge to |
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everyone. This is a great task that inspired many writers of not only science |
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fiction and fantasy novels, too. Thus there are many brilliant stories in which |
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libraries or librarians play an important role. |
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We therefore decided to name each major release of Kitodo.Presentation after a |
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fictional librarian from one of these novels who ideally shares our vision of |
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collecting and publishing the entirety of human knowledge one day (or who at |
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least is an extraordinary remarkable character in the plot). |
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1.0: Horace Worblehat |
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Horace Worblehat is the Librarian of the Library of the Unseen University (UU) |
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in Terry Pratchett's fantasy series of "Discworld" novels. |
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Like the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the UU Library features chained books – |
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although at Oxford this is done to protect the books from the students, whereas |
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at UU it is done to protect the students from the books. The high concentration |
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of magical lore makes it possible for the Library to contain every book ever |
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written, possibly written, unwritten and yet to be written. |
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The Librarian appeared in the first novel of the series and was transformed into |
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an orang-utan by accident while handling a magical book in a later novel. On |
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discovering that being an orang-utan had certain advantages for a librarian - he |
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can climb up to high shelves, for example - he refused to be transformed back |
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into a human and has remained an orang-utan ever since. |
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(partly from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unseen_University) |
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1.1: Patterson Tchung |
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In Frank Herbert's book "Direct Descent" the 81st century Earth has been |
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hollowed out entirely and turned into a planet-sized library. The innards of the |
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Earth were used to construct a fleet of ships that colonized the stars while the |
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people who remained behind dedicated themselves to the pursuit of knowledge. |
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They sent wave after wave of librarians out who collected knowledge, returned to |
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Earth, created programming about their discoveries and then broadcast those |
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programs to everyone in the universe for free. |
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The director of this library is (in the second part of the book) an intelligent |
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simian named Patterson Tchung. |
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(partly from http://www.omphalosbookreviews.com/index.php/reviews/info/453) |
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1.2: Hari Seldon |
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Hari Seldon, a mathematician and psychologist in Isaac Asimov's first science |
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fiction novel of the "Foundation Trilogy", has developed psychohistory, a new |
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field of science and psychology that equates all possibilities in large societies |
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to mathematics, allowing for the prediction of future events. Using psychohistory |
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he has discovered the declining nature of the 12,000-year-old Galactic Empire, |
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which will collapse within 500 years and enter a 30,000-year dark age. However, |
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he believes that creating a compendium of all human knowledge, the Encyclopedia |
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Galactica, would not avert the inevitable fall of the Empire but would reduce the |
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dark age to one millennium. |
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Hari Seldon departs to a remote world with other Encyclopedists to start working |
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on his foresightful plan to compile the Encyclopedia Galactica. |
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(partly from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel)) |
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2.0: The Librarian |
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Snow Crash from Neal Stephenson |
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For more information on the Kitodo project, please visit the |
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following websites: |
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- https://www.kitodo.org/ |
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- https://github.com/kitodo |
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For more information on the TYPO3 project, please visit the |
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following websites: |
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- https://typo3.org/ |
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- https://github.com/typo3 |
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