Greenstone Blog

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 27/1/2012

sjm84 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:02:48 +0000

This week I have been touching up on a few unfinished features. One of these was the mapping features that I can’t remember whether or not I have written about before. Basically, if your documents have coordinate information (i.e. latitude and longitude information) we now have a feature that will map those documents on a […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 20/1/2012

sjm84 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:16:25 +0000

One of the things we have been doing this week is deciding the best way to handle user authentication in Greenstone 3. We have a very basic system in place at the moment but we would like something more robust. At the moment we are investigating using the authentication system in the web-server we use […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 13/1/2012

sjm84 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:10:09 +0000

My time this week has mostly been spent helping out one the masters students here in our lab. I have been helping her develop the ability to tag photos and text in the Greenstone 3 collection she is working on. This has resulted in us enhancing our Greenstone 3 (and also Greenstone 2) CGI capabilities […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 6/1/2012

sjm84 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:13:36 +0000

Happy new year to all Greenstone users! We’re back at work now after a couple of weeks off over the holiday period and already we’ve got a few new things lined up.
In Greenstone we try very hard to make the modification of the look and feel of collections as easy as possible. Unfortunately this often […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 2/12/2011

sjm84 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:11:47 +0000

This week I have been tidying up the new paged-image functionality so that it dynamically loads each page (rather than doing a full page reload each time) and also added the functionality that allows the user to choose from “Text view” (which only shows the OCR’d text), “Image view” (which shows the original image) and […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 26/11/2011

sjm84 — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:50:44 +0000

This week has mostly been spent improving Greenstone 3’s capability to display paged documents. This has mostly involved upgrading the table of contents functionality to better handle documents with a lot of pages and also have names like “Page 1″, “Page 2″, “Page 3″ etc. making them virtually indistinguishable by their names. In this case […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 18/11/2011

sjm84 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:16:59 +0000

This week has mostly been focused on bug fixing. One bug we discovered a while ago was that the code that highlights search terms in the text would also find occurrences of the terms inside tags (e.g. it would find the word farming in farming). The fix was to exclude the characters inside these […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 11/11/2011

sjm84 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:04:45 +0000

This week I have been working on a different area of Greenstone 3 for a change. We noticed that one area that was lacking in Greenstone 3 was the ability to display paged-image collections. For those of you who are not aware, a paged-image collection is a collection of (usually) scanned documents that consist of […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 4/11/2011

sjm84 — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:07:32 +0000

My work on the Document Structure Editor is on the back-burner at the moment (although still progressing well) as I have been designing a prototype collection that integrates a map-view into the various parts of Greenstone, to display the spacial information present in the collection. At this point I am modifying the Tipple Paradise Garden […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 17/10/2011

sjm84 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:47:20 +0000

Progress on the Document Structure Editor (the name is still undecided) is going well. It now actually makes the changes and then builds the collection, which results in the changes actually showing up in the documents, which is quite satisfying to see!
The building process takes a reasonable amount of time (especially if multiple collections need […]