May 2021
Developments and innovations to Goobi workflow in May 2021
Coming soon
Extension of the Archive Management Plugin
Extended Java 11 support
Adaptation of the export options
Extension of the handling of museum data from LIDO
New functionality for full text editing in the metadata editor as ALTO files
For some time now, the Goobi workflow metadata editor has allowed OCR results to be viewed in text format. However, if you then discovered a recognition error, you were left with only three options:
use the transcription plugin in Goobi workflow and export
textinstead ofALTO-XML, which however prevents the marking of search hits on an image in Goobi viewer.edit the ALTO file with a separate text editor in the file system. This is very time-consuming and hardly feasible for non-professionals.
do not correct the recognition error and try to sleep peacefully anyway.
Since this Goobi workflow version there is a new possibility:
You can use the new integrated ALTO editor within the metadata editor. The coordinates of the words are thus preserved and the full text can be edited almost like regular continuous text.
Highlighting the lines and words allows it to be easily seen where on the page each word is printed.
The documentation for the new functionality can also already be found in the Goobi workflow manual available online:
https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/50302f4464c417f090593a91151eb3c127643223 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/4ebd2aa551680117bd8ef6f224f030a31caaef3c https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/04b4cddefcebb8d8675c116946bff3c1df4a9fda https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/293e19fc4cdc3289d4f6049868578bc7d4e21d61 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/c0dcfcb477ef0c3266db1d18c7ff5da495f1835b https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/ef8609c9de7aeee3e00d66ff62a7545d1f88c00e https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/c619c43bdbd02763391e253056e44b3fc4953c2f https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/0a4350efff933aed8a6196074f40329591b19efa https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/94db988c85e3861fcad3c946917e353a697a1824 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/e82ee6d1a2d8544a692141affda6fbffce51e31b
Layout adjustments in the metadata editor and faster loading times
When an action is triggered in the metadata editor, the entire page is rarely reloaded so that the workflow is not interrupted and the scroll position of the individual containers can be maintained. When refreshing the page in this way, the developer can decide exactly which parts of the page should be refreshed.
In the past, some actions also updated parts of the page where it was not necessary. As a result, some actions, such as setting the representative, took an unusually long time. We have completely checked the metadata editor for this problem and optimised the updating for all actions.
https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/c8c4bb7bf26e3127795e5efef016f6c7bd88a36b https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/8d8fc0ba9de8344d1f8d7fe7ed1a4f6f99e2dba2 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/e583242c440624e4b6ee8c63691c8ed7bfd7e993 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/f472088c86c579faffabd33800cda5960d9227c2 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/5c43b1e89e32ccf9927c2770354d78950213a26b https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/c390ceb75df8c4219711c9ef1fa9d0d754dd5844 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/5550ce2393456cc214f1f21787fa49c91f841616 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/27a0653758593f24d7e82ef645f239ed0805f8d2 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/5cf7bd6e7b3176ae4692df5a25373f8474db49f6 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/827aa52ff63663fa1aab7028b32786e4e5206976 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/7cc545c634bd355d0d5b7ea66e39d5261930376c https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/020f270d011bb10d81ef23dddec9d095c9c2be57 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/5ccfbf44e4c57302b834b8a04d7d0638ec229f05 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/adf93e08dff00cf879fb4c4436cf935e156c6cf2 https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/fc516f07f9170849331be0271ae093b5e38f9cdb
Avoiding unwanted caching for layouts
In the past, it was often the case that after an update, the first time you entered the just freshly updated Goobi, the layout and/or some stylings were completely broken. This was not because the developers did a bad job, but because browsers like Chrome or Firefox cache files on the local device to save resources and bandwidth. The files are only re-downloaded from the server if they have changed. Therefore, it sometimes happened after an update that old files were mixed with new files and therefore the layout was broken. In this case, the page had to be completely reloaded (with the key combination Ctrl+Shift+R) to discard the cached files and reload them.
To prevent this from happening in the future, we now append a unique text associated with the version to the address of each file that could potentially be cached locally for each Goobi release. This way, the browser will always request a new file for new versions and the layout will look correct immediately after the update, without having to press secret key combinations.
https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/b597c0439d3f5d6004e82811929c6156100ce167
Better handling of processes without metadata
Goobi workflow is used in many different ways. For example, there are some institutions that are not interested in metadata in METS/MODS or LIDO format. For these institutions it has been noticed that script calls mandatorily require a meta.xml file in the task folder, otherwise they are aborted with an error. This has now been changed so that the meta.xml file is only read for script calls if metadata information is actually required within the script call.
https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/d7d7d2ca5fa60a59c2ef3a996eaa43c5acb2845a
Adjustments to the functionality of GoobiScript
After the GoobiScript runtime was completely re-implemented last month, some problems with GoobiScripts from plugins still arose that caused the plugins not to work properly. These problems have now been fixed and everything is working as usual again.
https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/d154874ba63a7e815267db378218c551cf11273c https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/a8320d942345e6aaa39bc856a1d701184c2ed0ae https://github.com/intranda/goobi-workflow/commit/d232a0f60d6db4b81c3c14d0ade4ddc1e668c97c
New functions and setting options of the dashboard
The enhanced dashboard has been extended even further. There are two new widgets: The widget Changes in the last 7 days shows steps that were completed, in progress or had errors in the last 7 days. The second new widget shows the steps that are currently in the queue. This is based on the new INFLIGHT status introduced last month.
Another new feature is that the layout of the dashboard can now be configured individually via the user settings. This configuration can be done by editing the setting Arrangement of dashboard elements within the user-specific User configuration in the tab General. Each line within the text box adds an element to the dashboard. Each line consists of two parts, separated by a space: First is a number that specifies the column in which the widget is to be displayed. The second part after the space is then the name of the widget to be added.
The list of currently available widgets is: assignedSteps, batches, htmlBox, itm, processSearch, processTemplates, queue, rss, statisticsProcesses2, statisticsProcesses, taskHistory, tasksLastChanges.
An example configuration could look as follows:
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