GreenStone

Shyama CDigital Library Trainee

IIITM-K

Contents

• Introduction• Making Greenstone Collections• Using Greenstone Collections

Introduction

• 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.

• It is open-source, Comprehensive and multilingual software

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Making Greenstone Collections

• To build new collections is to use Greenstone’s“librarian” interface (GLI).

• This allows you to collect sets of documents,import or assign metadata, and build them into a Greenstone collection.

Starting The New Collection

• To create a new collection

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Downloading Files from the Internet

• The "Download" view helps you download resources from the Internet.

The Download view

• Web: downloads web pages and files via HTTP and FTP.

• MediaWiki: downloads web pages and files via HTTP from a MediaWiki website.

• OAI: downloads metadata records (and optionally documents) from an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative) server.

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• Z39.50: downloads MARC records that match a particular search criterion from a Z39.50 server.

• SRW: downloads MARCXML records that match a particular search criterion from an SRW server.

Gather View• Importing the files . • Selected some documents from an

existing collection and dragging files of interest from the left to the right panel.

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Enrich View

• Use the "Enrich" view to assign metadata to the documents in the collection.

Assigning metadata using Enrich View

• Selected for each folder and assigned Metadata.

Design View

• Reviewing and editing the general information about the collection.

• Document Plugins, Search Indexes, Partition Indexes, Browsing Classifiers.

Search Indexes

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Partition Indexes

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Browsing Classifiers

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Ready to Build a New Collection

• For building new collection Click “Build Collection”.

• Once the collection has successfully built, clicking "Preview Collection" will launch a web browser showing the home page of the collection.

Previewing the newly built collection

Using Greenstone Collections

• Table 1– Home – Help– Preferences

• Table 2– Search– Titles a-z– Subjects– Organizations– How to

Figure 1

Using Greenstone Collections

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