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

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 of IDEALS at Illinois takes about 20-25 minutes) - so, initially, we suggest using the max records option to limit the number of items processed

There also is a short feedback survey where you can add comments and suggestions for new features.

Building collections on a remote Greenstone server. This scheme allows users to augment and edit collections that are held on a remote Greenstone server. Users work with a modified version of the Greenstone Librarian Interface but do not need to have Greenstone running locally. Multiple users can collaborate on the same collection (though not at the same time). Here are details of an experimental version that you can download (En Español).