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Daniel Francis
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Greenstone Overview
Digital Library collections building and distribution software Issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License Freely available, Open Source Software (OSS) First developed in 1996 by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikatos Computer Science Department
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Greenstone Overview
Aims to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions to build their own digital libraries (to avoid being read-only societies)
The Greenstone developers hope that the software will encourage the effective deployment of digital libraries to share information and place it in the public domain
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Greenstone Overview
Current production version UNESCO Distribution of humanitarian collections on CD-ROM Training Workshops Human Info NGO, Antwerp, Belgium Information For All Programme (IFAP) Through establishment and coordination of the Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN) eIFL.net
Greenstone Overview
What Greenstone
You cannot use Greenstone to automate your library, e.g., circulate your books using computers Greenstone IS NOT Library Automation software Greenstone IS NOT Scanning software Greenstone ALLOWS you to BUILD Digital Libraries. It is not a Digital Library in itself Greenstone cannot be used for scanning. You first have to scan your materials elsewhere AND THEN upload them into Greenstone Greenstone IS NOT a Digital Library
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Greenstone Requirements
Server is platform independent Runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris, MAC OS X Java Run-time Environment (JRE) Version 1.4 or above required Required for Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) Must be installed before installing Greenstone ImageMagick
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Greenstone Requirements
C++ compiler Perl A Web Browser
Visual Studio or GCC Needed only if you wish to compile the source code
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Greenstone Features
Search
Boolean Full text Cross-collection Wildcard
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Greenstone Features
Access controls Password protection at document/collection level Easy to install Graphical User Interface for building/managing collections - Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) Supports multiple file types, e.g., DOC, PDF, MP3, JPG Interoper able 9 9
Greenstone Features
Easily customisable
Supports protocol both as client and as server
Greenstone Features
Customisable metadata
Includes metadata editor
Greenstone Features
Large User Base Large Technical Support Base
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Applications
Multi-format digital collections Text Image Audio Bibliographic Collections Text Image Audio Institutional Repositories Text Image Audio
Video
Video
Video
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Access Controls
Collection locking
Item-centric
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Source: http://www.greenstone.org/factsheet
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Support
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Support Networks
African Digital Library Support Network
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Documentation Manuals
On Greenstone Site: Demo collections Tutorial Exercises Wiki FAQs
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Help
Librarian Interface User Interface
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Mailing Lists
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Greenstone 3
A complete redesign and reimplementation of Greenstone Research version of Greenstone (not recommended for production use) When complete, will retain all advantages of Greenstone 2
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Greenstone 3
Incorporates all features of current system
Backward compatible (can run and build existing collections without any need for modification)
Further Information:
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Greenstone Interfaces
User/Reader Interface
Librarian Interface
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T A M H h c u i e c l g e t h D s i l L s l y i U b n C s l g u e u s r a t v l o s i m a S i v u s i a p e n p b w y o l r e o w t f e
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G E J A R I r a v n e a s v c m p i y a l o h l u t i t a b d e c b o a e a l s m l u e a s d a n I e i a n m g t e e E t m r n a e f g d n a l t c i t e s a o h f u , e
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COLLECTION AREA
WORKSPACE AREA
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In GLI
In Reader Interface
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Access Controls
Limit access to particular documents Document-level
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Access Controls
For document-level protection enter, e.g.:
Password protection:
private_documents You can also use authenticate collection For collection-level protection enter, e.g.: Enter Open collections collect.cfg file for editing authenticate document
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Customisation
Look Done mainly through ,Macro files, Images, & and Feel Done GLI) mainly through ,Macro files, Images, & LookGLI) Feel and Format statements (in Format statements (in
Program functionality modifying C++ and Perl source code that is freely Can be altered by Can be availablealtered by modifying C++ and Perl source code that is freely available Program functionality Requires some level of knowledge of HTML Cannot be done using an HTML editor since the pages are not Cannot be done using an HTML editor since the pages are not static static 4 9
References
Han Yan (2004), Digital Content Management: the Search for a Content Management System , University of Arizona Library Rajas ekhar Witten I. an (2007), http://www.gre enstone.org Witten I. et al (2006), Greenstone Users Guide, Waikato University Schr eibm Consortium of Academic and an Research Libraries in Illinois, Bran colin i
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