Planet Greenstone, our Greenstone news aggregator, has been launched and can be found at planet.greenstone.org. Actually this is a re-release; it has been available as part of the main greenstone.org website for the last few weeks, but we are re-releasing it as an independent webpage.
Please contact me ([email protected]) to have your blog feed added to our “river of news”.
Greenstone v2.73 released! An unstable release containing new features and bug fixes. See the release notes for more information.
A new pilot project to introduce Greenstone in Southern Africa has begun, with support from the Koha foundation in the US (not connected with the library software of the same name). The University of Namibia Library in Windhoek will be the sub-regional coordinating centre. A one-week training course will be held there with participation from three national centres — probably university libraries in Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Courses will also be run at these national centres, and an international specialist will visit them to help with local Greenstone applications. Waikato and DLConsulting staff are volunteering their time to get this initiative off the ground.
As part of the work on Greenstone 3 we are running a survey on users’ experiences with customizing pages in Greenstone 2 – format statements, macros etc.
We welcome your comments on how we can make collection customization easier in Greenstone 3; the brief anonymous survey is here:
See the Greenstone3 home page. Greenstone2 will continue to be supported for a long time yet (years), but ultimately we see Greenstone3 replacing it. This is a beta release: it contains (virtually) all the features needed for Greenstone2 compatibility, and has been extensively tested. We have added a new section to the Wiki on Greenstone3, and in particular a new page entitled Greenstone3 for Greenstone2 users about how to set it up and migrate your collections (with a list of possible problem areas). Greenstone2 is certainly not yet in the past, but Greenstone3 is definitely the future!
New documentation is available at the documentation section of the Greenstone support for South Asia website. Three new documents have been added entitled Greenstone: A Beginner’s Guide, WINISIS to Greenstone: A Guide and Creating Digital Archives with Winisis.
Interested in the history of the Greenstone project? Here is a brief account.
Greenstone v2.72 released! A stable release containing new features and bug fixes. See the release notes for more information.
The UNESCO CD-ROM containing Greenstone 2.70u, plus all documentation (English/French/Spanish/Russian), plus 4 documented example collections, plus associated software like Java and ImageMagick, is available at no charge from Jean-Claude Dauphin ([email protected]) or Susannah Farey ([email protected]).
There is now a Greenstone documentation Wiki that brings together all Greenstone documentation, including manuals, FAQ, tutorial exercises (with sample files), example collections, teaching material, and much more. Please help us with this documentation project; here’s how.
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