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# Three day course 2004

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Workshop on the
Greenstone Digital Library Software

Suva, Fiji
September 2 - 4, 2004

## Introduction

This workshop will promote the development and sharing of digital library collections using the freely available Greenstone Digital Library software. The aim is to train trainers, and participants are expected to promote digital library collection development by conducting similar programmes in their countries.

### Instructors

Dr David M Nichols http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~daven/
Mr Michael Dewsnip Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Mr Richard Manargh DL Consulting http://dlconsulting.co.nz

## Schedule

(we may alter the schedule depending on how things go)

### Day 1

- 08:30-09:00 Wecome, introduce participants and instructors
- 09:00-10:30 Greenstone: Overview of features, capabilities, applications
- 10:30-11:00 Tea
- 11:00-12:00 Platforms, installation, configuration; accessing example collections
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch
- 13:00-15:00 Lab: Installing Greenstone, browsing collections
- 15:00-15:15 Tea
- 15:15-17:00 Librarian interface: Building collections

### Day 2

- 08:30-10:15 Lab: Building collections with the Librarian interface
- 10:15-10:30 Tea
- 10:30-12:00 Librarian interface: Adding and using metadata
- 12:00-13:00 Lunch
- 13:00-14:45 Lab: Adding and using metadata]
- 14:45-15:00 Tea
- 15:00-17:00 Librarian interface: Advanced features

### Day 3

- 08:30-10:15 Lab: Configuring collections
- 10:15-10:30 Tea

From the rest of Day 3 we will be flexible about the content, there are several labs and topics we can cover:

    - How building works; bibliography collections
    - Multilingual support; interface languages; Niupepa
    - Lab: Heterogeneous Documents and Multimedia
    - Customizing your collection, creating a CD-ROM
    - Lab: Customizing your collection, creating a CD-ROM

- 15:15-16:00 Concluding session

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