Greenstone and DSpace

by
Supaporn Chaithammapakorn

Greenstone and DSpace

Greenstone
- http://www.greenstone.org
- Digital library software
- Originated in 1996
- Produced by the New
Zealand Digital Library
Project at the University
of Waikato University
- Distributed by Unesco +
Human Info NGO
DSpace
- http://www.dspace.org
- Institutional repository
- Launched on Nov 4, 2002
- Developed by MIT
Libraries and HP

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Greenstone
- Open source,
multilingual software,
reader’s interface is
available in over 40
languages, and the
librarian’s interface,
including all
documentation, is
available in 4
(E,F,S,R)
Greenstone and DSpace
Greenstone
- Aims to users build own library
digital collections
DSpace
- BSD open source
DSpace
- Designed to help capture and
organize everything produced
by faculty and staff – digitized
versions of lecture notes,
videos, papers, and data sets
into an institutional repository
- Provides basic functionality
required to operate an
institutional repository and
serve as a base for future
development to address long-
term preservation and access
issues
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Greenstone
- Design and construction of
collections
- Distribution on the web and/or
removable media
- Customized structure
depending on available
metadata
- End-user collection-building
interface for librarians
- Reader and librarian interfaces
in many languages
- Multiplatform operation
Greenstone and DSpace
Greenstone
- V.2.74, v.3.02 (still
incomplete, not
stable)
- Supports Open
Archive Initiative
Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-
PMH) and METS
metadata standards
DSpace
- Repositories at an institutional
level
- Self-deposit of digital assets by
faculty
- End-user interface for
depositors
- Assets made available for
searching and browsing
- Data retrievable many years in
the future
- Institutional commitment to
ensure the continued
availability of certain named
formats
DSpace
- V1.4
- Supports Open
Archive Initiative
Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-
PMH)
- Dublin Core Metadata
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• Over 70 countries
• Preservation (no)
• Support infrastructure
- designed to be easy for
anyone with basic
computer-literacy skills to
install, in a laptop,
desktop, or institutional
environment
• Over 240
• Preservation
• Support infrastructure
- designed for institutional
use, where there are
centralized computing
facilities and a competent
infrastructure for software
support

Greenstone and DSpace

Greenstone DSpace
- Multiplatform - Multiplatform
operation operation
- Windows - Restricted to Unix
- Unix and OS/X
- Mac OS/X - Windows??

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Greenstone DSpace
- Author-oriented - Author-oriented
(Does not have) - incorporates an
interface whereby
users (typically
authors) can submit
documents to the
system, and define
metadata for them

Greenstone and DSpace

Greenstone DSpace
- Librarian-oriented - provides a generic
- supplies an end- design that can be
user interface with tailored –but not
which collections can typical end users
be designed,
customized, and built

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Greenstone DSpace
- Build-in metadata - Imposes a single
standard metadata standard on all
- provides a widely collections
used standard (DC) but
also allows collection-
builders to use their own
metadata scheme either
by extending an existing
one in an ad hoc manner
or by defining an entirely
new one using a
metadata set editor

Greenstone and DSpace

Greenstone DSpace
- Distribution on - Distribution on
removable media removable media
- Can write - NO
collection to a self-
installing CD-ROM
that operates on all
Windows systems

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Greenstone DSpace
- Dynamic collections
- Adding documents
to a collection normally
involves rebuilding the
full-text index and
browsing structures
(though rebuilding can be
scheduled to take place
automatically)
- Dynamic collections
- Operates
incrementally (though
operations on recently-
added documents like
extracting text or
producing image
thumbnails are processed
in batch mode)

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Greenstone DSpace
- International users - International users
- provides interfaces
for readers in over 40
languages including
many minority ones, and
has a scheme that helps
language maintainers
keep the interfaces up to
date when new interface
features are added

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