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# Tutorial exercises

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Greenstone tutorial exercises (August 2007)

These work with Greenstone 2.74. Print version

Translations of March 2006 version (for Greenstone 2.70): Spanish French Russian

## Working with a pre-packaged collection (UNAIDS)

- Installing a pre-packaged Greenstone collection
- Browsing around a Greenstone collection
- Searching within a Greenstone collection
- Leaving the Greenstone digital library
- Exercise: Use the UNAIDS collection to answer these questions

## Working with a pre-packaged collection (Digital Libraries in Education)

- Installing a pre-packaged collection
- Browsing around a Greenstone collection
- Exercise: Read the Help page; then answer these questions
- Exercise: Use the How to build a digital library collection to answer these questions.

## Installing Greenstone

- Installing Greenstone on a Windows system
- Installing ImageMagick on a Windows system
- Installing Ghostscript on a Windows system

## Updating a Greenstone installation

- Removing Greenstone from a Windows system
- Reinstalling Greenstone on a Windows system
- Amalgamating different Greenstone collections
- Installing the Greenstone language pack (2.62 and earlier)
- Enabling other languages (2.63 and later)
- Installing the Classic Interface Pack (2.63 and later)

## Building a small collection of HTML files

- Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface
- Starting a new collection
- Adding documents to the collection
- Building the collection
- Viewing the extracted metadata
- Viewing the internal links and external links
- Setting up a shortcut in the Librarian interface

## A simple image collection

- Adding Title and Description metadata
- Change Format Features to display new metadata
- Changing the size of image thumbnails
- Adding a browsing classifier based on Description metadata
- Creating a searchable index based on Description metadata

## A collection of Word and PDF files

- Viewing the extracted metadata

## Formatting the Word and PDF collection

- Tidying up the default format statement
- Linking to Greenstone version or original version of documents
- Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
- Displaying multi-valued metadata
- Advanced multi-valued metadata

## Enhanced PDF handling

- Modes in the Librarian Interface
- Splitting PDFs into sections
- Using image format
- Using process_exp to control document processing (advanced)
- Opening PDF files with query terms highlighted

## Enhanced Word document handling

- Using Windows native scripting
- Modes in the Librarian Interface
- Defining styles
- Removing pre-defined table of contents
- Extracting document properties as metadata

## Exporting a collection to CD-ROM/DVD

## A large collection of HTML files—Tudor

- Extracting more metadata from the HTML
- Blocking the stray images
- Looking at different views of the files in the Gather and Enrich panels

## Enhanced collection of HTML files—Tudor

- Adding hierarchically-structured metadata and a Hierarchy classifier
- Adding a hierarchical phrase browser (PHIND)
- Partitioning the full-text index based on metadata values
- Controlling the building process

## Formatting the HTML collection—Tudor

## Section tagging for HTML documents

## Downloading files from the web

## Pointing to documents on the web

## Bibliographic collection

- Using fielded searching
- Exploding the database
- Reformatting the collection to use the exploded metadata

## CDS/ISIS collection

## Customization: macro files and stylesheets

- Collection specific customisation
- Changing the colour of the page title and page text
- Make your own Greenstone home page
- How to determine which images to replace (advanced)

## Looking at a multimedia collection

## Building a multimedia collection

- Manually correcting metadata
- Browsing by media type
- Suppressing dummy text
- Using AZCompactList rather than AZList
- Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
- Adding a Phind phrase browser
- Branding the collection with an image
- Using UnknownPlug
- Cleaning up a title browser using regular expressions
- Using non-standard macro files
- Using different icons for different media types
- Changing the collection's background image
- Building a full-size version of the collection
- Adding an image collage browser

## Scanned image collection

- Grouping documents by series title and displaying dates within each group
- Displaying scanned images and suppressing dummy text
- Searching at page level

## Advanced scanned image collection

- Adding another newspaper to the collection
- XML based item file
- Using process_exp to control document processing
- Switching between images and text

## Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection

- Tweaking the presentation with format statements

## Downloading over OAI

- Downloading using the Librarian Interface
- Downloading using the command line

## Use METS as Greenstone's Internal Representation

## Moving a collection from DSpace to Greenstone

- Adding indexing and browsing capabilities to match DSpace's

## Moving a collection from Greenstone to DSpace

- Using Greenstone from the command line

## Editing metadata sets

- Running GEMS
- Creating a new metadata set
- Adding a new element to a metadata set

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