http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:11:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please take the Greenstone User Survey!  10-15 minutes of your time can help us learn more about Greenstone software users and developers. With your help, we will gain a better understanding of Greenstone software and support resource use and satisfaction; in what ways Greenstone users interact with and use the ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-06-18/greenstone-user-developer-survey/ The Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN) consists of many libraries developing digital collections with the aid and assistance of a number of National Centres of excellence. To date the Network has National Centres at libraries in Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. The Support Network would like to include more countries ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-06-03/expanding-the-southern-african-greenstone-support-network/ I am very pleased to announce that the University of Waikato has been awarded US$50,000 for the Greenstone project within the Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (see http://matc.mellon.org/press-release). This competition is meant "to recognize important organizational contributions to open source projects which currently or potentially provide significant benefits ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-12-23/greenstone-wins-andrew-w-mellon-foundation-matc-award/ We are pleased to announce that the Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.81 are now available for download from: http://www.greenstone.org/download The main focus has been on multilingual support. Improvements include handling filenames that include non-ASCII characters, accent folding switched on by default for Lucene, and character based ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-11-13/greenstone-281-released/ The ideas encapsulated in the Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) are now available for people working with the Fedora Digital Repository system. Currently the software is checked into the SVN repository -- we will produce binaries for this as part of the next general Greenstone release. For now, if ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-06-20/fli-svn/ 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/ 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/ 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 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/ 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/