Legally consistent presentation of Goobi digital content
Zeutschel offers a solution to present the content of digital collections protected by copyright, created using the open source solution Goobi. The module zedExporter establishes a connection to the electronic reading room MyBib eL® by ImageWare, where authorised users can display the protected contents online.
This software interface is an important result of the cooperation agreement between the two companies, concluded in 2013.
At the moment, 50 libraries, archives and museums in Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Austria and Spain use Goobi to present their digital collections. This open source digitisation software, which does not cost any license fees, is used to capture, collate, process, administrate and subsequently to present online scanned pages of books and other printed materials. The software is maintained by Goobi.Digitalisieren im Verein e.V. Libraries and library suppliers joined within this developer and user cooperative to create more professional structures for digitisation. The modules, for which no license fees are charged, are available for download and also co-development from the platform GitHub on the Internet.
zedExporter supports presentation management
The Tübingen-based company Zeutschel, library supplier since 1961 and member of the Goobi initiative, delivers a set of additional, license-based tools for work with the open source digitisation software, integrated in the software platform ZED server. The new Zeutschel module zedExporter supports the presentation of digital collections in Goobi environments in a manner consistent with copyright law. "Goobi permits definition of access protection using 'Yes' and 'No'. Until now, it has not been possible to arrange presentation with adherence to copyright law. We're changing that now", explains Michael Lütgen, sales manager for software solutions at Zeutschel.
Positioned between the levels 'Goobi.Production' and 'Goobi.Presentation', it looks after transfers to the respective presentation platform. zedExporter permits digital content in the public domain to pass in full to the Goobi presentation interface. It only shares the metadata for content under copyright. Information customers are not able to access the content of publications, but can nevertheless see in the metadata that the library stocks the book or copy of the printed magazine protected by copyright that the customer is seeking, also that the entire content of the work is available in a digitised from in the electronic reading room MyBib eL®. This is where the Zeutschel module exports the images and the entire metadata
MyBib eL® presented in a legally protected environment
Arriving in the electronic reading room, customers can then define precisely whether, where and how they would like to access the document protected by copyright. When conducting searches in the digital collections, a symbol appears in the Goobi.Presentation interface to indicate that the person seeking information can view the publication in MyBib eL® (Figure 1). If the user possesses authorisation to use MyBib eL® reading rooms (e.g. holders of library passes), he or she can read the document in the library reading room or on the screen at his or her workplace.
The Zeutschel solution for access protection in Goobi environments was presented in public for the first time at CeBIT 2014 at the start of March. Zeutschel sells zedExporter and MyBib eL® as a package offer. The Zeutschel module may also be purchased individually, provided the electronic reading room by ImageWare is already installed. The Tübingen-based company offers the additional service of installing Goobi digitisation workplaces or merely their integration in existing environments, also maintenance and service.
Solving problems with digital collections
As Michael Lütgen states, Zeutschel is responding to a pronounced market need by developing the zedExporter: "Libraries asked us repeatedly what they should do with digitised stocks that are subject to copyright. Combining zedExporter and MyBib eL® is our response." What makes the solution so elegant, says Lütgen, who also sits on the board of the Goobi parent association in Hanover, is that anyone seeking to digitise their collection can now complete the process in one workflow while still ensuring adherence to the copyright regulations for publication.
The goal defined at the Library Congress in Leipzig 2013 to roll out an 'integral solution' to mark the Librarian Conference 2014 in Bremen was even achieved a few weeks early. The Tübingen-based digitisation specialist is hence expanding its product portfolio to include a solution for the presentation of materials in the public domain and those protected under copyright.
*****
About Zeutschel:
With its scanning and microfilm systems, Zeutschel GmbH has played a key role for more than 50 years in the digitisation and digital preservation of valuable documents, both in librarianship and archive management as well as in industrial companies and public administration. The company is the world market leader in book scanners and a trendsetter in the field of microfilm cameras and microfilm scanners. Now, zeta, Zeutschel's multiple award-winning overhead scanner, brings all the advantages of "scanning from above" into the modern office. It has never been so easy, efficient and eco-friendly to digitally copy pages from books, files or balance sheets. The range of software products and accompanying services under the "OSCAR" umbrella brand is extensive and supports libraries and archives in building up digital collections in the internet and in the realisation of digital services. The company founded in 1961, employs 65 members of staff and its products and services are represented in more than 100 countries. All Zeutschel products are "Made in Germany": The complete manufacture and entire research and development activities take place at the company's headquarters in Tübingen-Hirschau.
Corporate Contact
Zeutschel GmbH, Heerweg 2, 72070 Tübingen, E-Mail: info@zeutschel.de; Internet: www.zeutschel.de
Press contact:
Zeutschel GmbH, Margot Rauscher, Tel.: +49 (0) 7071 / 9706-11,
Fax: +49 (0) 7071 / 9706-44, E-Mail: margot.rauscher@zeutschel.de
PR-Agency: neitzel communications, Jürgen Neitzel, Löwenstr. 46a, 70597 Stuttgart,
Telefon: 0711/ 440 800-63, Fax: 0711 / 440 800-70, E-Mail: jneitzel@neitzel-services.de