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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
File New
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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