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 This week I have been touching up on a few unfinished features. One of these was the mapping features that I can't remember whether or not I have written about before. Basically, if your documents have coordinate information (i.e. latitude and longitude information) we now have a feature that will ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2012-01-27/sams-greenstone-blog-2712012/ One of the things we have been doing this week is deciding the best way to handle user authentication in Greenstone 3. We have a very basic system in place at the moment but we would like something more robust. At the moment we are investigating using the authentication system ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2012-01-20/sams-greenstone-blog-2012012/ My time this week has mostly been spent helping out one the masters students here in our lab. I have been helping her develop the ability to tag photos and text in the Greenstone 3 collection she is working on. This has resulted in us enhancing our Greenstone 3 (and ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2012-01-13/sams-greenstone-blog-1312012/ Happy new year to all Greenstone users! We're back at work now after a couple of weeks off over the holiday period and already we've got a few new things lined up. In Greenstone we try very hard to make the modification of the look and feel of collections as easy ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2012-01-06/sams-greenstone-blog-612012/ Continued on the problem that I thought had been almost resolved last week: getting the batch files in GS2 to handle not only spaces but also brackets in the Greenstone filepaths. The batch files were done, but the perl code needed some correcting too. After inspecting many files ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-12-02/anus-entry-for-the-week-ending-2-dec-2011/ This week I have been tidying up the new paged-image functionality so that it dynamically loads each page (rather than doing a full page reload each time) and also added the functionality that allows the user to choose from "Text view" (which only shows the OCR'd text), "Image view" (which ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-12-02/sams-greenstone-blog-2122011/ For the last two weeks, I was mainly learning the practical side of how to handle the Greenstone translations. Mainly how to generate the spreadsheets for translators to use, though there was also the opportunity for learning to handle translated spreadsheets. Next to that, there were some questions on the ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-28/anus-entry-for-week-ending-25-nov-2011/ This week has mostly been spent improving Greenstone 3's capability to display paged documents. This has mostly involved upgrading the table of contents functionality to better handle documents with a lot of pages and also have names like "Page 1", "Page 2", "Page 3" etc. making them virtually indistinguishable by ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-26/sams-greenstone-blog-26112011/ This week has mostly been focused on bug fixing. One bug we discovered a while ago was that the code that highlights search terms in the text would also find occurrences of the terms inside tags (e.g. it would find the word farming in <a href="farming.html">farming</a>). The fix was to ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-18/sams-greenstone-blog-18112011/ As several people had encountered issues in the recent 2.85 release, a lot of this week was spent looking at them so that we can get 2.86 out as soon as possible. The bugs and oversights are not fatal and work-arounds are possible: 1) If you don't have the PDF-box extension for ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/