Assistance Greenstone
Vous voulez apprendre un peu plus au sujet de Greenstone? Vous avez des difficultés pour installer ou construire des collections? Il y a beaucoup d'autres ressources d'aide auxquelles vous pouvez vous adresser.
Greenstone Documentation Wiki
Your one-stop shop for all documentation about Greenstone (including the following).
Liste des questions les plus fréquentes (FAQ)
La FAQ contient la liste des questions les plus fréquentes concernant Greenstone et leurs réponses, ainsi que comment se procurer le logiciel, comment installater et exécuter Greenstone, et comment construire des collections.
Documentation Greenstone
Greenstone est accompagné par plusieurs manuels et guides. Cette page donne les liens sur ces documents qui existent en plusieurs langues.
Archives de la liste de diffusion Greenstone
Cette collection contient toutes les questions et réponses échangées sur les deux listes de discussion Greenstone. Effectuer une recherche dans cette collection est une bonne façon de trouver des réponses aux questions les plus fréquentes et qui ne font pas encore parties de la FAQ. Celle-ci est mise à jour régulièrement.
Comment construire une bibliothèque numérique.
Qu'appelle-t-on une bibliothèque numérique? A quoi cela ressemble-t-il? D'ou proviennent les informations? Comment procède-t-on? Par quoi commencer? C'est un livre qui répond à ces questions d'une façon simple et pragmatique, en mettant l'accent sur l'aspect pratique Le livre décrit aussi les concepts et l'utilisation du logiciel Greenstone.
Listes de discussion Greenstone
Follow the link above to see information about our mailing lists.
Bordereau d'assistance Web
En dernier recours, si vous ne pouvez pas utiliser les listes de discussion pour quelque raison que ce soit, utilisez le bordereau d'assistance pour envoyer une demande à l'équipe Greenstone.
Commercial Support
Commercial support for Greenstone is available from DL Consulting, who provide services including Greenstone customisation, hosting and ongoing maintenance. For more information email DL Consulting sales.
Opalle Innovation offers professional advice, technical support, internationalization, hosting, and custom solutions for Greenstone users.
Formation à Greenstone
A variety of organizations have run Greenstone training courses in the past, not all of which we have been involved in:
UNESCO has sponsored training courses in Bangalore (2002 and 2003), Almaty (2003), Suva (2003, with USP), Senegal (2004)
Contact Jean-Claude Dauphin jc.dauphin@unesco.org
UNESCO IITE (Institute of Information Technology in Education) are planning courses in Cairo, Bangkok, Moscow
Contact Azat Khannanov Azat.Khannanov@iite.ru
University of Pune, India by Shubhada Nagarkar shubha@bioinfo.ernet.in
IIM Kozhikode by M.G. Sreekumar mgsree@iimk.ac.in
Infomed Cuba by Gustavo Kouri gkouric@infomed.sld.cu
SLAIS, University of British Columbia by Edie Rasmussen edie@interchange.ubc.ca
FAO and SPC Fiji by Christina Tuitubou ChristinaT@spc.int
Digital Library conferences sometimes have Greenstone tutorials
JCDL, ECDL, ICADL, ICDL
Librarian conferences sometimes have Greenstone workshops and presentations
LITA, ALA Annual Conference, ASIST
Alternatively, if your department/organization is willing to organise and fund a Greenstone workshop in your area, we might be able to run it (depending on what other commitments we have). We would require our air travel and basic accomodation to be paid for, and if you're feeling generous, a donation towards our research costs would be appreciated.
Self-study courses
FAO/UNESCO have developed a self-paced module entitled "Digitization and Digital Libraries" available at: http://www.imarkgroup.org/ or contact: IMARKenquiries@fao.org
IITE have a self-study course "Digital libraries in education"
Contact Azat Khannanov Azat.Khannanov@iite.ru
Donations and Contract Research
Greenstone is distributed free under the GNU General Public License, and will continue to be. We provide support by responding to queries on the email lists, and will continue to do this to the best of our ability - but we cannot guarantee this service, particularly with increasing traffic. For those with funds, there are further opportunities.
Become a Friend of Greenstone... and we will prioritize response to your queries on the email lists, and provide up to one day per year of a project member's time to look at your particular problems. The cost is US$2000 per annum (by donation or invoice); to join, email us. As a token of our appreciation you will receive a small sliver of New Zealand Greenstone as a keepsake.
Want a new feature? The Greenstone research group undertakes contract research to enhance Greenstone by adding new facilities and features. Here are some examples of what we'd like to do - if we had financial support. Contact greenstone@cs.waikato.ac.nz.