GREENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRARY
Ian H. Witten, Stefan Boddie and John Thompson
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato, New Zealand
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 software, available from greenstone.org under the terms of the Gnu General Public License.
We want to ensure that this software works well for you. Please report any problems to greenstone@cs.waikato.ac.nz
Greenstone gsdl-2.70 March 2006
This manual provides a comprehensive description of how to use the Greenstone software for accessing and building digital library collections.
Section gives an overview of the capabilities of the software. Section explains how to use Greenstone collections. The interface is self-explanatory—the best way to learn is by doingand this section comprises the on-line help information for a typical collection. Section explains how to build your own library collections using the Greenstone Librarian Interface. Section introduces the administration facility that allows the system administrator to monitor what is going on and control who can build collections.
Appendices list the features of the Greenstone software, and give a glossary of terms used throughout the Greenstone documentation.
The complete set of Greenstone documents includes four volumes:
Copyright © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License.”
The Greenstone software is a collaborative effort between manypeople. Rodger McNab and Stefan Boddie are the principal architects andimplementors. Contributions have been made by David Bainbridge, GeorgeBuchanan, Hong Chen, Michael Dewsnip, Katherine Don, Elke Duncker, Carl Gutwin, Geoff Holmes, Dana McKay, JohnMcPherson, Craig Nevill-Manning, Dynal Patel, Gordon Paynter, Bernhard Pfahringer, ToddReed, Bill Rogers, John Thompson, and Stuart Yeates. Other members of the New ZealandDigital Library project provided advice and inspiration in the design ofthe system: Mark Apperley, Sally Jo Cunningham, Matt Jones, Steve Jones, Te TakaKeegan, Michel Loots, Malika Mahoui, Gary Marsden, Dave Nichols and Lloyd Smith. We would also like toacknowledge all those who have contributed to the GNU-licensed packagesincluded in this distribution: MG, GDBM, PDFTOHTML, PERL, WGET, WVWARE and XLHTML.
Copyright © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License.”