Greenstone Blog

Nightly Snapshot Releases

Oran Fry — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:16:32 +0000

Starting now, nightly “snapshot” releases of Greenstone3 will be constructed and made available on our snapshots page.

Greenstone Workshops

Dave Nichols — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:03:35 +0000

Upcoming workshop in Malaysia and photos from a recent workshop in Zimbabwe

Waikato visit report from John Rose

johnrose — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:30:23 +0000

As a volunteer research associate in the Greenstone team concerned especially with ways to more effectively reach and involve users in developing countries, I was very pleased to visit the University of Waikato from 5 to 19 March 2008. This report summarises what I was able to learn and discuss with the team.

Workshop Map Started

Oran Fry — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:58:42 +0000

We have just started the Greenstone Workshop Map, which shows the locations of all the Greenstone workshops and tutorials which have been conducted around the world.

OAI Visualisation Tool online

Dave Nichols — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:07:55 +0000

A prototype OAI metadata analysis
tool - producing statistics and visualisations of
repository metadata - is now online.

Greenstone2.80 Released

Quan — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:18:30 +0000

The Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.80
are now available for download from our sourceforge page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone or via our download page.

Greenstone2.75 Released

Oran Fry — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:01:38 +0000

The Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.75
are now available for download from our sourceforge page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone or via our download page

Greenstone3.03 released!

Shaoqun Wu — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:27:54 +0000

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 install — just as easy as Greenstone2! This release has been extensively tested.

International Conference at Kathmandu, Nepal

Oran Fry — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:12:15 +0000

HealthNet Nepal and Tribhuvan University, Central Library, Kathmandu, Nepal is organizing ICIKM-2008 from March 24-29, 2008 at Kathmandu, Nepal. The theme is “Information and Knowledge Management in a Connected World: A Challenge for the Developing Countries.” The conference will include a 3-day Greenstone workshop.

Three day Advanced Workshop at IISc

Oran Fry — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:26:26 +0000

We are glad to announce that a three day Advanced Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) is organised at National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from December 26th to 28th.