Library Cataloging
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Fact Sheet for more information.
These Greenstone tutorial exercises will teach you about many aspects of Greenstone, from installation to format statements; from writing a collection to CD-ROM to serving it on OAI, exporting it as METS, or converting it to and from DSpace; from harvesting Web documents to harvesting metadata over OAI. It will also take you through the detailed steps of building collections of html, word, pdf, images, mp3, marc records, and many more, including OCR'd newspaper images.
Download Greenstone v2.60, a major stable release that features up-to-date French, Spanish and Russian translations, updated GLI documentation, and many other improvements and bug fixes.
Download all the language interfaces available for the Greenstone digital library software (version 2.60 only): the four "core" languages English, French, Spanish, Russian; and interfaces for Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Maori, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Greenstone
- Greenstone
Greenstone v2.71 has been released. A feature release containing lots and lots of improvements and new functionality.Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information...
- Greenstone Digital Library Software
Greenstone v2.62 has been released. This is a "stable" release of the software with no major new features but many bug fixes and minor improvements. See this page for a list of some of the most important changes in this version.Greenstone is a suite of...
- Ieee Tcdl Bulletin
The 1st issue of the on-line journal IEEE TCDL Bulletin by the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries is now available. Articles include:Usability of Digital Libraries: A Source of Creative Tensions with Technical Developments Ann Blandford and...
- Open Source & Digital Libraries
Materials from the NISSAT-NCSI Workshop on Developing Digital Libraries using Open Source Software are available on-line. The open-source softwares used were E-Prints Archive Software and Greenstone Digital Library Software running on Linux. Thanks FOS...
- Cataloging In Languages Other Than English
The Glossary of Bibliographic Information by Language can be a real help when dealing with materials in a language you are not fluent in. It provides translations for common terms used in publishing in Danish, Dutch, French German, Italian Latin, Norwegian,...
Library Cataloging
New From Greenstone
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Fact Sheet for more information.
These Greenstone tutorial exercises will teach you about many aspects of Greenstone, from installation to format statements; from writing a collection to CD-ROM to serving it on OAI, exporting it as METS, or converting it to and from DSpace; from harvesting Web documents to harvesting metadata over OAI. It will also take you through the detailed steps of building collections of html, word, pdf, images, mp3, marc records, and many more, including OCR'd newspaper images.
Download Greenstone v2.60, a major stable release that features up-to-date French, Spanish and Russian translations, updated GLI documentation, and many other improvements and bug fixes.
Download all the language interfaces available for the Greenstone digital library software (version 2.60 only): the four "core" languages English, French, Spanish, Russian; and interfaces for Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Maori, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Greenstone
- Greenstone
Greenstone v2.71 has been released. A feature release containing lots and lots of improvements and new functionality.Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information...
- Greenstone Digital Library Software
Greenstone v2.62 has been released. This is a "stable" release of the software with no major new features but many bug fixes and minor improvements. See this page for a list of some of the most important changes in this version.Greenstone is a suite of...
- Ieee Tcdl Bulletin
The 1st issue of the on-line journal IEEE TCDL Bulletin by the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries is now available. Articles include:Usability of Digital Libraries: A Source of Creative Tensions with Technical Developments Ann Blandford and...
- Open Source & Digital Libraries
Materials from the NISSAT-NCSI Workshop on Developing Digital Libraries using Open Source Software are available on-line. The open-source softwares used were E-Prints Archive Software and Greenstone Digital Library Software running on Linux. Thanks FOS...
- Cataloging In Languages Other Than English
The Glossary of Bibliographic Information by Language can be a real help when dealing with materials in a language you are not fluent in. It provides translations for common terms used in publishing in Danish, Dutch, French German, Italian Latin, Norwegian,...