http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:02:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-04-11/sams-greenstone-blog-1142011/ Greenstone has a new macro that lets you share documents in social networks or email systems, using Addtoany tool . The new macro is called _shareme_  that belongs to package Global in document.dm. The macro accepts two parameters: _1_ is the title of the link, and _2_ is ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-04-07/share-your-documents-in-facebook-or-twitter/ p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { } HealthNet Nepal in Kathmandu has released a pilot version of the Greenstone-Koha Integrated LIVE CD on 15th October, 2010, in the framework of the Digital Library Network South Asia (DLNET-SA). The LIVE CD enables anyone with a PC to test and learn about ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2010-11-03/greenstone-koha-integrated-live-cd-v05/ We are pleased to announce that an overview of results from the 2009 Greenstone User and Developer survey is available online at: http://greenstonesurvey.wordpress.com/greenstone-user-and-developer-survey-results/. Through the survey, we were able to gather information from a geographically dispersed group of organizations and individuals who use Greenstone Digital Library Software. A primary ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2010-06-22/surveyresults/ The first two Greenstone collections to publicly implement OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Handling) are now fully operational for data harvesting. They are: * Biblioteca Digital Científica de les Illes Balears in Spain - the OAI base url is http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/cgi-bin/oaiserver.cgi; * Memoria Académica of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-12-24/first-operational-greenstone-oai-pmh-collections/ We are pleased to announce the publication of the Second Edition of How to Build a Digital Library. The Second Edition is a major rewrite, including new material on multimedia, metadata, internationalisation and the roles that people take in digital libraries. The book is divided into two sections: Part I on ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-12-17/how-to-build-a-digital-library-second-edition/ 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/ 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 ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-05-14/greenstone-workshop-in-pohnpei-micronesia/ 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 ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-05-04/waikato-visit-report-from-john-rose-2/