Greenstone Digital Library Software

Brian Aljer B. Coballes

Librarian In-Charge of Non-Print Ateneo de Manila High School

Greenstone Overview

Installation

Greenstone Demo

Greenstone Walkthrough

GREENSTONE OVERVIEW

What is Greenstone?
is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections open-source, multilingual software

Local Library

Web Library

INTERNET

Windows

Linux, MacOS, Windows

Finding information
constructs full-text indexes from the document text metadata indexes

Index structures are all created automatically.

Document formats
variety of formats converted into standard XML by plug-ins for indexing

Plug-ins convert plain text, HTML, Word, PDF documents, and email messages.

Multimedia and multilingual documents

can contain text, pictures, audio and video non-textual material is either linked into the textual documents or accompanied by textual descriptions (such as figure captions) Unicode - is a standard scheme for representing the character sets used in the world's languages allows consistent translation to different languages

Distribution
collections are accessed over the Internet, published, or on a self-installing Windows CD-ROM produced by New Zealand Digital Library (University of Waikato) distributed by UNESCO and Human Info NGO

Greenstone is readily extensible with GNU-licensed modules.

 Greenstone 2.85 vs. Greenstone 3.05

version 2.85 is the latest stable release version 3.05 is the research version of Greenstone and still incomplete and not stable

Greenstone 2.85

INSTALLATION

Download the latest software distribution from the GDLS website (http://www.greenstone.org/download):

Start>All Programs>Greenstone-2.85

GREENSTONE DEMO

GREENSTONE DEMO

localhost

Searching

search search for a particular words titles a-z access publication by titles subjects access publication by subject organizations access publication by organizations how to access publication by how to listing

Searching

Browsing Classifiers

Icons
Click on the book icon to read the corresponding book. Click on the bookshelf icon to look at books on that subject. View the document. Open this folder to view the contents. Click on the icon to close the book. Click on the arrow to go to the next section. Click on the icon to go back to the previous section. Open this page in a new window. Expand table of contents. Display all text. Highlight search terms.

GREENSTONE WALKTHROUGH:
THE LIBRARIANS INTERFACE

The Librarians Interface

can be run in one of three modes:
1. Library Assistant 2. Librarian 3. Expert

modes control the level of details within the interface

The Librarians Interface

Getting started (Windows)
1. Select the Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) from Programs section of the Start Menu. 2. Open an existing collection or create a new one.

The Librarians Interface

Opening an existing collection

File>Open

The Librarians Interface

Opening an existing collection

GATHER

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DESIGN

CREATE

FORMAT

Exploring the local file space

Operations available at this stage:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. navigating multiple selection of files dragging and dropping files deleting documents creating new sub-hierarchies filtering visible files opening of a selected file

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Enriching the documents

Enriching the documents

Sample Metadata Sets
1. Australian Government Locator Service Metadata Element Set (agls) 2. Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (dc) 3. Greenstone metadata set (gs) 4. New Zealand Government Locator Service Metadata (nzgls) 5. Qualified Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (dc) 6. RFC 1807 Metadata Element Set (rfc1807)

Operations available at this stage:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. assigning new and existing metadata assigning metadata to a document assigning metadata to a folder assigning hierarchical metadata editing or updating assigned metadata reviewing the metadata

Editing the metadata set

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Designing the collection

Designing the collection 4 Sections

1. 2. 3. 4. Document Plugins Search Indexes Partition Indexes Browsing Classifiers

Operations available at this stage:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. reviewing and editing collection-level metadata defining full-text indexes to be built creating sub-collections adding or removing support for predefined interface languages constructing a list of plug-ins configuring individual plug-ins constructing a list of classifiers assigning formatting strings reviewing the metadata sets

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Building the collection

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Configure your collection

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QUESTIONS?

References:
"About Greenstone." Greenstone Digital Library Software. Ed. New Zealand Digital Library Project. University of Waikato, [2007] Web. 09 May 2013. "Greenstone Support for South Asia." Greenstone Support for South Asia. University of Waikato, 2011. Web. 09 May 2013. "GreenstoneWiki." GreenstoneWiki. Ed. New Zealand Digital Library Project. University of Waikato, [2007] Web. 09 May 2013. "Tutorial Exercises." GreenstoneWiki. [University of Waikato], 20 July 2012. Web. 09 May 2013. Bainbridge, David, Dana McKay, and Ian H. Witten. "DEVELOPER'S GUIDE."DEVELOPER'S GUIDE. University of Waikato, 2007. Web. 09 May 2013. Loots, Michel, Dan Camarzan, and Ian H. Witten. "FROM PAPER TO COLLECTION."FROM PAPER TO COLLECTION. University of Waikato, 2007. Web. 09 May 2013. Witten, Ian H. "Introducing the Greenstone Library Software." University of Waikato, [2007]. Web. Witten, Ian H., and Stefan Boddie. "INSTALLER'S GUIDE." INSTALLER'S GUIDE. University of Waikato, 2007. Web. 09 May 2013. Witten, Ian H., Stefan Boddie, and John Thompson. "USER'S GUIDE." USER'S GUIDE. University of Waikato, 2007. Web. 09 May 2013.

Greenstone Digital Library Software

Brian Aljer B. Coballes
Librarian In-Charge of Non-Print Ateneo de Manila High School