An hour lecture with hands-on on how to install the GREENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRAY. The seminar was sponsored by Baguio-Benguet Librarians Association, Inc. and conducted at the University Of the Cordilleras Library on July 19 & 20, 2010

1. Greenstone: Open source
Software for Building
Digital Library Collections
Cheryl T. Roldan
UC-BBLA Seminar-Workshop”
July 19-20, 2010
University of the Cordilleras

2. What is a Digital Library?
‘Digital Libraries are a set of electronic
resources and associated technical
capabilities for creating, searching, and
using information…they are an extension
and enhancements of information storage
and retrieval systems that manipulate
digital data in any medium (text, images,
sounds) and exist in distributed networks
(Borgman, 1996).

3. Digital Library Objectives
• The primary objective of a digital library is
to enhance the digital collection in a
substantial way, by strategically sourcing
digital materials, conforming to copyright
permissions, in all possible
standards/formats so that scalability and
flexibility is guaranteed for the future and
advanced information services are
assured to the user community right from
beginning.

5. • Software suite for building, maintaining, and
distributing digital library collections
• Comprehensive, open-source
• Developed by New Zealand Digital Library
Project at the University of Waikato
• Distribution and promotion partners:
UNESCO
Human Info NGO, Belgium
NCSI, Bangalore; UCT, Cape Town; Dakar
• You!

7. The power of open source:
Greenstone uses …
• Ghostscript Interpreter for Adobe Postscript documents
(Postscript plugin)
• Kea Keyphrase extraction program (to generate
metadata)
• Pdftohtml Converter for PDF documents (PDF plugin)
• Rtftohtml Converter for RTF documents (RTF plugin)
• TextCat Detects languages and document
encodings
• wvWare Converter for Word documents
(Word plugin)Xlhtml
• XMLTML Converter for Excel/Powerpoint documents
(plugins)
• XML Parses XML documents, used to read and
write Greenstone’s internal XML
document format

8. Technical
Platforms
- runs on all versions of Windows, and Unix/Linux, and Mac
OS-X.
- easy to install.
- absolutely no configuration is necessary, and end users
routinely install Greenstone on their personal laptops or
workstations. Institutional users run it on their main web
server, where it interoperates with standard web server
software (e.g. Apache).

9. Technical
Interoperability
- highly interoperable using contemporary standards, It
incorporates a server that can serve any collection over the
Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH),
- can harvest documents
- Any collection can be exported to METS (in the Greenstone
METS Profile, approved by the METS Editorial Board and
published at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-profiles.html),
- Any collection can be exported to DSpace ready for
DSpace's batch import program, and any DSpace collection
can be imported into Greenstone.

10. Technical
Interfaces
-Reader interface
-Librarian interface

11. Metadata Formats
- Dublin Core
- NZGLS (New Zealand Government locator Service)
- AGLS (Australian Government Locator Service)
Technical

12. Document formats
Textual Documents
• PDF PostScript Word RTF HTML Plain text,
Latex ZIP archives Excel PPT Email
• multimedia documents
• Images (any format, including GIF, JIF, JPEG, TIFF),
MP3 audio, Ogg Vorbis audio,
• and a generic plug-in that can be configured for audio
formats, MPEG, MIDI, etc.
Technical

13. Greenstone Features:

14. Greenstone & Associated Software
• JRE 1.5.0-05
• ImageMagick 6.3.6-4-Q16
• Ghostscript gs860w32
• Greenstone 2.75

15. Hardware and Software
Requirements

16. • New York Botanical Garden
• • Peking University Digital Library
• • Philippine Research Education and Government Information
Network
• • Secretary of Human Rights of Argentina
• • Slavonski Brod Public Library, Slovenia
• • State Library of Tasmania
• • Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
• • Texas A&M University Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
• • University of Illinois
• • University of North Carolina Bibiblio project
• • Vietnam National University
• • Vimercate Public Library, Milan, Italy
• • Washington Research Library Consortium
• • Welsh Books Council
Greenstone Example Collections:

21. (http://www.greenstone.org/cgibin/
library?a=p&p=colcfg)

24. Summary

25. References:
• Online Resources:
• Greenstone - Configuration files of demo collections in New Zealand
• Digital Library project: (http://www.greenstone.org/cgibin/
• library?a=p&p=colcfg)
• Ian H. Witten. Examples of practical digital libraries: Collections built
• internationally using Greenstone. D-Lib Magazine, March 2003.
• (http://dlib.org/dlib/march03/witten/03witten.html )
• Greenstone training workshop material. Greenstone Digital Library Project
• and NCSI, IISc. 2003: (http://www.greenstone.org/)
• Customizing the Greenstone User Interface. An illustrated guide to
• customizing the Greenstone user interface. Written by Allison Zhang of the
• Washington Research Library Consortium
• (http://www.wrlc.org/dcpc/UserInterface/interface.htm)
• Additional Reading:
• Ian H. Witten and David Bainbridge 2003. How to build a digital library.
• Morgan Kaufman Publishers

26. 1) Installing from
www.greenstone.org

27. 2)

28. 3) Save in drive
“Z”

29. 4) Click install to
continue
Finished

30. 5)

31. 6)

32. 7) Click and drag to
“COLLECTION”

33. Congratulations! You just installed
GSDL in your computer 