BUILDING DIGITAL LIBRARY COLLECTIONS WITH GREENSTONE WORKSHOP

PROGRAMME

INSTRUCTOR: Ian Witten, New Zealand Digital Library Project, University of Waikato, New Zealand assisted by Dr Hussein Suleman & Dynal Patel

Welcome
Susan Veldsman

Overview

What does Greenstone do?—Examples

Platforms and installation

Documentation and help

Building simple collections

Building collection from HTML documents

Building collection from Word/PDF documents

Building image collection

Creating Greenstone CD-ROM

Working with metadata

Adding and using metadata

Browsing classifiers, search indexes

Extensive exercise based on HTML files

Building advanced collections

Multimedia collection

Customizing

Under the hood: collection configuration file

Customizing with macros

Personalizing your home page

Examples of what others have done

Reaching out

Bibliographic (MARC) data: metadata crosswalks

OAI: serving and ingesting

Generating METS; using MODS

Interoperating with DSpace

More advanced collections

Multimedia collection (continuation)

Formats and macros exercise

Scanned image collection (if time)

Practical interoperability exercises

Collections of MARC records

Collection of harvested OAI records

Exporting to DSpace Using METS as the internal representation

The way forward

Report on a study to investigate the feasibility of establishing a Greenstone Support Organization in Africa
Dr Dale Peters & Dynal Patel