Greenstone Blog

Greenstone2.80 Released

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.

There is a patch to the 2.80 release, which is a newer version of the main.cfg file with additional configuration for several new languages: malayalam, marathi, tamil, telugu, bulgarian, and sinhalese. To install the patch, download the new main.cfg by right clicking this link and select “save link as” (or “save target as”). Then replace the old main.cfg, which is in the ‘etc’ folder of your Greenstone installation.

New documentation

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

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

Greenstone Wiki

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

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

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).