Goobi

Over the decades, a large number of analog documents have accumulated in museums, collections and state monument offices. These include image documentation, publications of all kinds and excavation files. In addition to the digital indexing of the archaeological objects themselves, these documents are important sources for research. They themselves should also be digitally indexed and made available to the research community.

Based on the open source software Goobi from the company intranda, the mass digitization of these documents can be carried out in adapted workflows. By enriching the centrally managed digitized documents with standard data, transcribing the texts and manuscripts into machine-readable form using OCR, linking them to library catalogs and publishing them with connected open access interfaces, the documents thus indexed can become research data that can be used by the community in the long term.

The Göttingen Central Office already operates Goobi instances together with cooperation partners such as the Archaeological Museum Hamburg and the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, which are also participating institutions in NFDI4Objects. The aim of NFDI is to further develop these services and make them available to other institutions. New institutions can build on the experience and established workflows.