Kitodo.Presentation is a feature-rich framework for building a METS- or IIIF-based digital library. It is part of the Kitodo Digital Library Suite.
Kitodo.Presentation is a feature-rich framework for building a METS- or IIIF-based digital library. It is part of the Kitodo Digital Library Suite.
Kitodo.Presentation is highly customizable through a user-friendly backend and flexible design templates. Since it is based on the great free and open source Content Management System TYPO3, it integrates perfectly with your website and can easily be managed by editors. Kitodo.Presentation provides a comprehensive toolset covering all requirements for presenting digitized media. It implements international standards such as IIIF Image API, IIIF Presentation API, OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, METS, MODS, TEI, ALTO, and can be configured to support any other descriptive XML format using simple XPath expressions. With Kitodo.Presentation you can publish digitized books, manuscripts, periodicals, newspapers, archival materials, audio and video.
For a complete overview of all features, visit the Kitodo homepage.
Kitodo was formerly known as Goobi. Older releases can be found on Launchpad.
Kitodo.Presentation requires TYPO3 with PHP. It uses MySQL or MariaDB as database and Apache Solr via Solarium as search engine backend.
Currently TYPO3 10.4 ELTS and TYPO3 11.5 LTS is supported with the following system requirements:
Component | Constraints for 10 LTS | Constraints for 11 LTS |
---|---|---|
TYPO3 | 10.4.43+ | 11.5.35+ |
PHP | 7.4.33 | 7.4.33 |
MySQL | 5.7.x - 8.0.x | 5.7.9 - 8.0.x |
MariaDB | 10.2.7 - 10.11.x | 10.2.7 - 10.11.x |
Apache Solr | 8.x | 8.x |
OCR Highlighting Plugin | 0.8.x-solr78 | 0.8.x-solr78 |
Application level dependencies are handled by Composer (see composer.json).
Kitodo is an open source software suite intended to support the digitisation of cultural assets for libraries, archives, museums, and documentation centres of all sizes. A range of modules with open interfaces support the production, presentation, and archiving of digital assets. The software can be flexibly used for a multitude of digitisation strategies and scalable business models – for in-house projects, purely corporate services, or hybrid endeavours. Kitodo is backed and continually updated by a dynamic user and developer community and the non-profit association Kitodo e. V.
For general information and news, please visit our website.
As a system that has to meet the diverse requirements of a wide variety of institutions and the materials they want to digitise, Kitodo is a rather complex software solution, the installation and configuration of which can be challenging, especially for users with limited IT capacities and know-how.
To ensure it can best advise and assist users on technical and organisational issues, the Kitodo community has established support structures for the following typical scenarios.