Provide metadata and recommended citation in pdf generator

[felixlohmeier]

To guide users in citations it would be helpful to extend the generated pdfs with a preceding page that displays available metadata in table format and a recommended citation (e.g. "SLUB Dresden, Mscr.Dresd.M.32, digital.slub-dresden.de/id272362328 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)")

Feature request at meeting SUB HH and SLUB DD, April 29th, 2015.

[sebastian-meyer]

Since Goobi.Presentation doesn't generate the PDF files itself, this isn't easy to accomplish.

There are two options: a) Implement this feature into the image pre-processing as it is currently handled. That would be easier, but it wouldn't be part of Goobi.Presentation. b) Add an image/content server to Goobi.Presentation, which handles image processing and PDF generation in the future. That's harder, but would have even more advantages.

I prefer the second option, but currently neither one is planned to be realised.

[zuphilip]

It would be nice, if Goobi could be improved "[t]o guide users in citations". However I don't think that is a good idea to add a preceding page into the pdf with some metadata printed on. Why?

• Well, as an experienced user I would use a reference management system and actually I would like to have a possibility to save the metadata into my reference management system easily. For this use case maybe COinS or some metatags in the webpages might be a good starting point.
• Moreover, some rudimentary metadata can be saved in the metadata fields of the pdf itself.
• A less experienced user might not systematically collect the references before writing and has just to look up the metadata during the writing process. It would be enough to provide a link to the metadata which are already present in Goobi. I personally like quite much the idea to use a bookmark in the pdf for that (as the DNB is doing that), e.g.

I find it IMO quite annoying when reading some JSTOR articles with this extra pages. Maybe, in 95 % of the use cases you just want to read the article (and don't care that much for the citation). If you print it out, then also the left and right page are sometimes switched, because of this extra included page. If you imagine any preview images, they are normally build from the first page. Thus, the first thing which I am doing after downloading such an article, is to look for a pdf-tool to remove the extra generated pages.

Actually, I would argue in general that "linking to the metadata" is much more how we should do the things nowadays, rather than "printing metadata on some page into the pdf". What do you think?

[sebastian-meyer]

You make a lot of valid points and I like the DNB's approach, too. I think that's the way we should do it.