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GrEENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWAREAN INTRODUCTION

BACALZO,Sharon mariano,nenita

The Greenstone Digital library Software provides a way of building and distributing digital library collections, opening up new possibilities for organizing information and making it available over the internet or on CD-ROM.Developed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project (www.nzdl.org) at the University of Waikato.Distributed in co-operation with UNESCO and Humanities Library Project, Romania

New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato Greenstone software grew out of this project, and this initiative has been endorsed by the Communication Sub-Commission of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO as part of New Zealand's contribution to UNESCO's programme.

The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries

Digital libraries are radically reforming how information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO's partner communities and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the world, and particularly in developing countries.

GDLS:Some FactsCURRENT VERSION:2.82 and 3.03Available from http://www.greenstone.orgSoftware suite for building ,maintaining ,and distributing digital library collections.Comprehensive , open-sourceDistribution and promotion partners;UNESCOHuman Info NGO ,Belgium

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The dissemination of educational, scientific and cultural information throughout the world, and particularly its availability in developing countries, is central to UNESCO's goals as pursued within its intergovernmental Information for All Programme, and appropriate, accessible information and communication technology is seen as an important tool in this context.

The Human Info NGO, Belgium This project works with UN agencies and other NGOs, and has established a worldwide reputation for digitizing documentation of interest to human development and making it widely available, free of charge to developing nations and on a cost-recovery basis to others

GDLS:HISTORY1995-Digitl Library of Computer Science Technical Reports. Its established by New Zealand Digital Library.1997-Decision to use GPL(General Public License);name: Greenstone adopted ;work with Human Info NGO to produce humanitarian CD-ROMs.1998 April - First CD-ROM collection released: Humanity Development Library1998 Aug.- Greenstone.org website established

1999- collection established2000 April- Greenstone mailing list started2000 Aug.-Formally established cooperative effort with UNESCO and Human Info NGO2000 Nov.- Distribute software on Source Forge2002 April- Development of Greenstone32002 March- Official opening of the Niupepa collection, development of Greenstone Librarian Interface2002 June- First UNESCO Greenstone CD-ROM2003-a Java development that became known as the Greenstone Librarian Interface

2005 Nov.-Initial release of Greenstone32006 April- Greenstone Support Group for South Asia launched

Builds and distributes digital library collections Full-text document search and display Multi-platform support Web-based user interface Highly customizable Document collections can be exported to CD-ROMs Can be used for archiving

CollectionsA typical digital library built with Greenstone will contain many collections, individually organizedthough they bear a strong family resemblance. Easily maintained, collections can be augmented and rebuilt automatically.

Overview of GreenstoneDocument FormatsSource documents come in a variety of formats, and are converted into a standard XML form for indexing by plugins. Plugins distributed with Greenstone process plain text, HTML, WORD and PDF documents, and Usenet and E-mail messages

Multimedia documents Collections 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) to allow full-text searching and browsing.

Figure 1Figure 1 shows a screenshot of the Demo collection supplied with the Greenstone software. Almost all icons are clickable. Several icons appear at the top of almost every page.

Figure 2 shows a document in the demo collection. Beside the photograph is a table of contents: the entry in bold face marks where you are, in this case Introduction and SummarySection 1 of the chosen book. This table is expandable: click on the folders to open them or close them.

Making Greenstone CollectionsThe simplest way to build new collections is to use Greenstones librarian interface (GLI). This allows you to collect sets of documents, import or assign metadata, and build them into a Greenstone collection. It supports five basic activities, which can be interleaved but are nominally undertaken in this order:

Making Greenstone Collections1. Copy documents from the computers file space, including existing collections, into the new collection. Any existing metadata remains attached to these documents. Documents may also be gathered from the web through a built-in mirroring facility. 2.Enrich the documents by adding further metadata to individual documents or groups of documents.

Making Greenstone Collections3. Design the collection by determining its appearance and the access facilities that it will support.4. Build the collection using Greenstone. 5. Preview the newly created collections, which will have been installed on your Greenstone home page as one of the regular collections.

GLI Start a new collection

GLI Importing metadata

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