http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:11:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Would you like to have a Greenstone3 server in your pocket? Now you can with our port of the run-time system to Android. Fire-up Greenstone3 on your mobile phone and then access it just like any other Greenstone server, searching and browsing multimedia collections. You can connect to it over ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-04-01/greenstone3-on-android/ I am very pleased to announce that the University of Waikato has been awarded US$50,000 for the Greenstone project within the Third Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (see http://matc.mellon.org/press-release). This competition is meant "to recognize important organizational contributions to open source projects which currently or potentially provide significant benefits ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-12-23/greenstone-wins-andrew-w-mellon-foundation-matc-award/ We are pleased to announce that the Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS/X and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.81 are now available for download from: http://www.greenstone.org/download The main focus has been on multilingual support. Improvements include handling filenames that include non-ASCII characters, accent folding switched on by default for Lucene, and character based ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-11-13/greenstone-281-released/ A paper by four members of our group entitled Running Greenstone on an iPod won the "best demo" prize at the premier international Digital Libraries conference (JCDL), held in Pittsburgh recently. We had other successes too. Of ten papers submitted by members of our group, 8 were accepted (well above ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2008-07-31/greenstone-on-a-ipod-wins-best-demo-prize/