Greenstone Blog

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 11/4/2011

sjm84 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:20:50 +0000

Hi all, welcome to another Greenstone development blog entry. Last week we finished up our work helping the FLAX team create a binary installer for FLAX that would work for any version of the Mac operating system. We also mapped out what needed to be done before we can release Greenstone 3.05 and we have […]

Share your documents in Facebook or Twitter

Diego Spano — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:44:59 +0000

Greenstone has a new macro that lets you share documents in social networks or email systems, using Addtoany tool.

Greenstone-Koha Integrated LIVE CD v0.6

John Rose — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:50:59 +0000

The Greenstone-Koha Integrated LIVE CD, developed and released in the framework of the Digital Library Network South Asia (DLNET-SA), enables anyone with a PC to test and learn about Greenstone, the Koha integrated library system package and the application integrating these packages.

Results from the Greenstone User and Developer Survey

laura — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:43:07 +0000

Overview of results from the Greenstone User and Developer Survey available online.

First operational Greenstone OAI-PMH collections

John Rose — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:08:02 +0000

The first two Greenstone collections to implement OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Handling) are now fully operational for public data harvesting.
They are the “Biblioteca Digital Científica de les Illes Balears” in Spain and “Memoria Académica” of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences of the National University of La Plata in Argentina. Access information is given in this blog posting.

How to Build a Digital Library, Second Edition

Dave Nichols — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:19:28 +0000

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Second Edition of How to Build a Digital Library.

Greenstone User (& Developer) Survey

laura — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:33:42 +0000

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 software; and the organizational and […]

Expanding the Southern African Greenstone Support Network

Amos Kujenga — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:52:12 +0000

The Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN) would like to include more countries in and beyond the Southern African Region through the establishment of a number of new National Centres…

Greenstone workshop in Pohnpei, Micronesia

Ian Witten — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:36:24 +0000

Ian Witten has just returned from giving a workshop on the Greenstone Digital Library Software in Pohnpei, Micronesia. He has given workshops before in faraway places, but this was an extraordinary experience. Pohnpei is a capital city that he’d never heard of before (have you)? It’s little more than a pixel on Google Maps, and […]

First Greenstone-Mellon Grant Awarded

John Rose — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:55:21 +0000

In 2008, the University of Waikato a received a Grant from the Mellon Foundation to promote contributions to the Greenstone Digital Library suite which provide significant benefits to higher education, libraries, museums, arts, or nature conservation. The University is using the award to support the Greenstone community of developers and users, particularly in developing countries […]