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/ Would you like to have a Greenstone3 server in your pocket? Now you can with our port of the run-time system to Android. Fire-up Greenstone3 on your mobile phone and then access it just like any other Greenstone server, searching and browsing multimedia collections. You can connect to it over ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-04-01/greenstone3-on-android/ 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/ The OAI Visualisation and metadata analysis tool has been upgraded with: lists of potential duplicate values for each element (using approximate string matching, i.e. edit distances) lists of records that are missing particular elements better linking to source item records greatly improved stability This new alpha 2 version is now running at the same URL: http://www.nzdl.org/greenstone3/mat http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-06-05/oai-tool-updated/ Starting now, nightly "snapshot" releases of Greenstone3 will be constructed and made available on our snapshots page. Every night, the most recent revision of the Greenstone3 source code will be automatically checked out, compiled, and packaged up as an easy-to-use installer and put up on our website. These snapshots will be ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-04-16/nightly-snapshot-releases/ A prototype OAI metadata analysis tool - producing statistics and visualisations of repository metadata - is now online. Usage notes: when clicking on the links of the left of the visualisation you may need to configure your browser to allow popups from nzdl.org producing the analysis report does take some time (e.g. the whole ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-01-23/oai-metadata-tool/ 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/ 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/ See the Greenstone3 home page. Greenstone2 will continue to be supported for a long time yet (years), but ultimately we see Greenstone3 replacing it. This is a beta release: it contains (virtually) all the features needed for Greenstone2 compatibility, and has been extensively tested. We have added a new section ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-02-19/greenstone302-released/