Greenstone Blog http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:29:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Waikato visit report from John Rose I have been a volunteer research associate in the Greenstone team for more than two years, and was very pleased to be able to visit the University of Waikato, at the invitation of Prof. Ian Witten, from 5 to 19 March 2008 (this was also my first visit to New ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-03-26/waikato-visit-report-from-john-rose/ 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 There is a patch to the 2.80 release, which is a newer version of the main.cfg file with additional configuration for several new languages: malayalam, marathi, tamil, ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-12-11/greenstone280-released/ Greenstone2.75 Released The Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.75 are now available for download from our sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone or via our download page Notable Changes - Language updates to various components: (Language - Moderator Name) Russian - Vyacheslav Bakharev Arabic - Usama Salama, Salih Mustafa ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-11-09/greenstone275-released/ Greenstone3.03 released! Greenstone3 v3.03 has been released for Windows, GNU/Linux and in Source form (it runs on the Mac no problem; just recompile from source). This release finally contains all the features in Greenstone2, including OAI-PMH and Remote Building support (which are new to this version). It is now very easy to ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-10-26/greenstone303-released/ Newspaper digitisation project based on Greenstone DL Consulting are pleased to announce that the redesigned Papers Past has now been officially released. Papers Past is a collection of 19th and early 20th century newspapers belonging to the National Library of New Zealand. The new site is a complete redesign, and is based on Greenstone. DL Consulting ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-09-18/newspaper-digitisation-project-based-on-greenstone/ Greenstone 2.74 released We are pleased to announce that Greenstone v2.74 is now available for download. This is a stable release. It has been tested extensively. It contains mainly bug fixes and no new features. Important changes in this release include (in no particular order): MetadataXMLPlug can no longer be removed Fixed authentication bugs on windows Fixed bugs in ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-08-02/greenstone-274-released/ Greenstone 2.73 released Greenstone v2.73 released! An unstable release containing new features and bug fixes. See the release notes for more information. http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-06-15/greenstone-273-released/ Survey on Greenstone customization 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/ http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-05-22/customization-survey/ Greenstone v2.72 released! Greenstone v2.72 released! A stable release containing new features and bug fixes. See the release notes for more information. http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2006-12-27/greenstone-v272-released/