http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:29:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Starting now, nightly "snapshot" releases of Greenstone3 will be constructed and made available on our snapshots page. Every night, the most recent revision of the Greenstone3 source code will be automatically checked out, compiled, and packaged up as an easy-to-use installer and put up on our website. These snapshots will be ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-04-16/nightly-snapshot-releases/ There will be a 4-day Greenstone Workshop at the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) on 12-15th May 2008. The workshop is hosted by the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology and the instructor will be Prof. M.G. Sreekumar - further details are in the workshop brochure (PDF). Bess Sadler ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-04-04/workshops/ I have been a volunteer research associate in the Greenstone team for more than two years, and was very pleased to be able to visit the University of Waikato, at the invitation of Prof. Ian Witten, from 5 to 19 March 2008 (this was also my first visit to New ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-03-26/waikato-visit-report-from-john-rose/ 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. Each workshop and tutorial is annotated with the city and country it was held in, the name of the conference it was part of, the ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-01-24/workshop-map-started/ 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 ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-01-23/oai-metadata-tool/ 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. There is a patch to the 2.80 release, which is a newer version of the main.cfg file with additional configuration for several new languages: malayalam, marathi, tamil, ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-12-11/greenstone280-released/ 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 Notable Changes - Language updates to various components: (Language - Moderator Name) Russian - Vyacheslav Bakharev Arabic - Usama Salama, Salih Mustafa ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-11-09/greenstone275-released/ 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 ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-10-26/greenstone303-released/ International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management at Kathmandu, Nepal 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 ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-10-18/international-conference-on-information-and-knowledge-management-at-kathmandu-nepal/ 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, covering Multilingual capability and Interoperability concepts in GSDL, for those who are familiar ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2007-09-28/three-day-advanced-workshop-at-iisc/