Greenstone Blog

Results from the Greenstone User and Developer Survey

laura — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:43:07 +0000

Overview of results from the Greenstone User and Developer Survey available online.

How to Build a Digital Library, Second Edition

Dave Nichols — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:19:28 +0000

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Second Edition of How to Build a Digital Library.

Greenstone2.80 Released

Quan — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:18:30 +0000

The Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.80
are now available for download from our sourceforge page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone or via our download page.

New documentation

Sam McIntosh — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:10:25 +0000

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 History

Sam McIntosh — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:28:35 +0000

Interested in the history of the Greenstone project? Here is a brief account.

Greenstone Wiki

Sam McIntosh — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:20:59 +0000

There is now a Greenstone documentation Wiki that brings together all Greenstone documentation, including manuals, FAQ, tutorial exercises (with sample files), example collections, teaching material, and much more. Please help us with this documentation project; here’s how.

U.N. self-instructional module

Sam McIntosh — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:22:47 +0000

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has produced an excellent self-instructional module on Digitization and Digital Libraries, which includes a unit on Greenstone.

Remote Building

Sam McIntosh — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:23:51 +0000

Building collections on a remote Greenstone server. This scheme allows users to augment and edit collections that are held on a remote Greenstone server. Users work with a modified version of the Greenstone Librarian Interface but do not need to have Greenstone running locally. Multiple users can collaborate on the same collection (though not at the same time). Here are details of an experimental version that you can download (En Español).