The Goobi viewer is a web application that allows digitised material to be displayed in a web browser. It is used as central basis for an online digital library and offers various functionalities as browsing through digital collections, complex full-text searches, displaying images based on the IIIF standard, deliver audio and video material and a lot more.

Metadata handling

A consistent use of standardised metadata format (e.g. METS or LIDO) allows to present data from various sources. Additionally the viewer can be fully integrated into Goobi, the popular open-source workflow management software for digitisation projects, thus creating a seamless transition from the book to the web presentation.

Content and access

The Goobi viewer handles the entire visualisation of the digitised material. Based on standardised metadata formats, it not only displays the material but also offers website visitors a range of useful tools that help them to navigate and even to contribute their own content – for example a page turning/location function and quick links from the digital index. Content inside of the Goobi viewer is available for download as small parts (e.g. individual chapters) or as a complete work in the form of archivable PDF/A files. Beside this there is a licensing system embedded to control the access to special content by granting an authorisation for example to certain IP addresses or to individual users.

Layout

The layout of the Goobi viewer is based on a sophisticated templating engine with highly configurable skins to offer a wide range of visual display options and to allow an integration fully into a given corporate design.