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People often prefer to view digital representations of cultural-historical objects online via the Internet if this is sufficient to answer their questions, and travel costs can be saved. By digitizing their holdings, cultural heritage institutions can preserve the use of their collections and at the same time present them Open Access to a wide audience, so that their visibility and importance increases. Kitodo is a multilingual software available under the GNU GPL. It is a pair, Production and Presentation, that has been built specifically for the purpose of digital image acquisition and visualization. The two components were built from the grassroots by its users for two decades, thus all their experience in daily Digital Asset Management and documentation, supporting a wide range of metadata standards, is included. Kitodo is more than a long decade already backed and maintained by a dynamic user and developer community and the non-profit association Kitodo e. V., a Registered Association under German law, who carries the constant maintenance and further development of this unique open-source software. So, you benefit from the experience in Digital Asset Management, that makes an effort from the smallest to very large institutions and for cost-efficient mass operation.