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Congratulations, Veronica!From Category: Other News
Thursday 5th July, 2007
Greenstone team member wins prize at JCDL for "realistic books"
Upcoming Greenstone workshopsFrom Category: Other News
Thursday 5th July, 2007
... in Kuching, New York, Windhoek, Hanoi
Planet Greenstone LaunchedFrom Category: Other News
Tuesday 19th June, 2007
Planet Greenstone, our Greenstone news aggregator, has been launched and can be found at planet.greenstone.org
Greenstone 2.73 releasedFrom Category: Greenstone2
Friday 15th June, 2007
Greenstone v2.73 released! An unstable release containing new features and bug fixes. See the release notes for more information.
Greenstone in Southern AfricaFrom Category: Other News
Tuesday 22nd May, 2007
A new pilot project to introduce Greenstone in Southern Africa (Namibia, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe). Waikato and DLConsulting staff are volunteering their time to get this initiative off the ground.
Survey on Greenstone customizationFrom Category: Greenstone2
Tuesday 22nd May, 2007
As part of the work on Greenstone 3 we are running a survey on users' experiences with customizing pages in Greenstone 2 - format statements, macros etc. We welcome your comments on how we can make collection customization easier in Greenstone 3; the brief anonymous survey is here:http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/2333/
Greenstone3.02 released!From Category: Greenstone3
Monday 19th February, 2007
See the Greenstone3 home page. Greenstone2 will continue to be supported for a long time yet (years), but ultimately we see Greenstone3 replacing it. This is a beta release: it contains (virtually) all the features needed for Greenstone2 compatibility, and has been extensively tested. We have added a new section to the Wiki on Greenstone3, and in particular a new page entitled Greenstone3 for Greenstone2 users about how to set it up and migrate your collections (with a list of possible problem areas). Greenstone2 is certainly not yet in the past, but Greenstone3 is definitely the future!
New documentationFrom Category: Documentation
Sunday 18th February, 2007
New documentation is available at the documentation section of the Greenstone support for South Asia website. Three new documents have been added entitled Greenstone: A Beginner's Guide, WINISIS to Greenstone: A Guide and Creating Digital Archives with Winisis.
Greenstone HistoryFrom Category: Documentation
Sunday 14th January, 2007
Interested in the history of the Greenstone project? Here is a brief account.
Greenstone v2.72 released!From Category: Greenstone2
Tuesday 26th December, 2006
Greenstone v2.72 released! A stable release containing new features and bug fixes. See the release notes for more information.
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Greenstone3
Greenstone3 is a complete redesign and reimplementation of the original Greenstone digital library software (Greenstone2). When complete, it will retain all the advantages of Greenstone2 - for example, it will be multilingual, multiplatform, and highly configurable. It incorporates all the features of the existing system, and is backwards compatible: that is, it can build and run existing collections without modification. Written in Java, it is structured as a network of independent modules that communicate using XML: thus it runs in a distributed fashion and can be spread across different servers as necessary. This modular design increases the flexibility and extensibility of Greenstone.
Please note, Greenstone3 is our research version of Greenstone, and is still incomplete, and not stable. For a production digital library we recommend using Greenstone2.
You might like to try Greenstone3 if:
You want increased flexibility with the interface, and like using XSLT.
You have your own library front end, and want to talk to a Greenstone collection server using XML and SOAP.
You want a distributed library
You want to add exciting new features into a Greenstone library, and have difficulty understanding the Greenstone2 C++ source code
You like trying out new software
You are kind and generous and would like to help out by testing the new software (thanks!)
Download
Alpha releases of Greenstone3 can be downloaded from SourceForge.
Windows distribution (112M)
Linux distribution (117M)
Mac OS X distribution (96M) Note: the Mac download is for the previous release of Greenstone (3.01) due to a binary library inconsistency across versions of MacOS X which we have not been able to reliably resolve in the 3.02 release. The newest release of Greenstone3 does run on a Mac but requires you to compile from source.
Mac OS X distribution (96M)
Source distribution (52M)
Or you can get Greenstone3 using Subversion(SVN). See below
Documentation
The design of Greenstone3: An agent based dynamic digital library Initial design document, Dec 2002.
Greenstone3: A modular digital library User and developer manual. Work in progress. (Last updated Aug 2006) The above two documents come as part of the install. Please read Chapter 1 of the manual for installation details, and Chapter 2 for collection building and interface customisation details. The remaining chapters are intended for the Greenstone developer.
Dynamic digital library construction and configuration Bainbridge et al. (2004). Proc European Digital Library Conference ECDL2004, Bath, England.
A new framework for building digital library collections Buchanan et al. (2004)
Demonstration Sites
NZDL Mirror The New Zealand Digital Library site served using Greenstone3. The interface is based around the 'classic' Greenstone3 look and feel. The collections available are the same collections used by the Greenstone2 server: new configuration files have been created for them, but they are otherwise unchanged.
Standard Greenstone3 This library uses the 'standard' Greenstone3 look and feel. It includes several demonstration collections, including Greenstone2 collections, Greenstone3 collections, and other non-standard demos.
Support
These releases are experimental. We would greatly appreciate hearing about any problems (or successes!) you have when using Greenstone3. To report bugs, problems and ask questions, please join the greenstone3 mailing list.
Notes
Read the README for installation notes.
Installing from SVN:
You will need to have Apache Ant and a Subversion client installed to compile and install Greenstone3. Please read the README.txt file in the greenstone3 directory for more information.
Run: svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/greenstone3/trunk greenstone3 cd greenstone3 (edit build.properties as appropriate) ant prepare install
Debian Sarge system: You need to have libgdbm-dev installed, and create a symlink from libgdbm-compat.so.3 → libgdbm.so.2.
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