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The New Zealand Digital Library Project
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The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The University of Waikato whose aim is to develop the underlying technology for digital libraries and make it available publicly so that others can use it to create their own collections. Our web site provides several document collections, including historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. All are available over the Web, and can be accessed through searching and browsing interfaces provided by the Greenstone digital library software. Behind the query interface lies a huge collection providing gigabytes of information. We hope you find what you want, or at least something intriguing! | ||||||||
| The Greenstone software | |||||||||
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The Greenstone Digital Library software provides a new way of
organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on
CD-ROM. It is open-source software, available under the terms of the
Gnu public license.
A digital library is made up of a set of collections. Each collection of
information comprises several (typically several thousand, or even
several million) documents, which share a uniform searching and
browsing interface. Collections can be organized in many different
ways while retaining a strong family resemblance.
To subscribe to the Greenstone mailing list, go to https://list.scms.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/greenstone-users. More... |
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| Our research | |||||||||
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The goal of our research program is to explore the potential of internet-based digital libraries. Our vision is to develop systems that automatically impose structure on anarchic, uncatalogued, distributed repositories of information, thereby providing information consumers with effective tools to locate what they need and to peruse it conveniently and comfortably. Project members are actively working on techniques for creating, managing, and and mainatining collections; extracting metadata from legacy documents; analysing library usage and user needs; Maori, Arabic and Chinese language systems; internationalising the library interface; optical music recognition and musical collections; novel interfaces for formulating queries and visualising results; novel interfaces for browsing metadata; text mining for keyphrases, acronyms, and other metadata; keyphrase extraction and phrase-based browsing; and other research topics. More... | ||||||||
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Human Info NGO is a registered charity responsible for the provision of universal low-cost information access through co-operation between UN Agencies, universities and NGOs. Human Info NGO collaborates extensively with the NZDL project, and use the Greenstone software. | ||||||||
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization . The dissemination of educational, scientific and cultural information throughout the world, and particularly its availability |
Kia papapounamu te moanakia hora te marino,kia tere te karohirohi, kia papapounamu te moana may peace and calmness surround you, may you reside in the warmth of a summer's haze, may the ocean of your travels be as smooth as the polished greenstone. |
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| Greenstone is a semi-precious stone that (like this software) is sourced in New Zealand. In traditional Maori society it was the most highly prized and sought after of all substances. It can absorb and hold wairua, which is a spirit or life force, and is endowed with traditional virtues that make it an appropriate emblem for a public-domain digital library project. Its lustre shows charity; its translucence, honesty; its toughness, courage; and the sharp edge it can take, justice. The carved piece used in the Greenstone Digital Library Software logo is a patu or fighting club, and is a family heirloom of one of our project members. In hand-to-hand combat its delivery is very quick, very accurate, and very complete. We like to think these qualities also apply to our software, the razor sharp edge of the patu symbolizing the leading edge of technology. |
Department of Computer Science , University of Waikato, New Zealand
September 2003