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Managing Digital Collectionswith Greenstone Digital
Library Software
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Outline
Digital Collections
Digital Library
Open Source Software
Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL)
Installation of GSDL
Using Librarian Interface (GLI)
Using User Interface
Practical examples
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Electronic Document
When the content (text, picture, audio-video etc.) is created or storedelectronically.
An Electronic/Digital Document
Unit of work or Complete work
Electronically stored book isElectronic Document
Each chapter is Electronic DocumentA picture embedded in the chapter
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Digital Collections
Print documents as electronic documents
Existing and future electronic documents
Electronic document format
Electronic Collections
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Digitization
Hard copies into electronic copies
- Preserving the hard copies
- Accessing the hardcopies
electronically
- Reusing the hard copieselectronically
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Electronic Document Format
Format adds special characteristics to theElectronic Document/Digital Document
Identify / Distinguish
Share Web enabled
Convert
Compress
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Electronic Document Format Text format
Applicable to documents wherecontent is largely textual.
Image format
Used to create/store the digital imageof text pages, photographs etc.
Audio & Video format
Used for capturing , storing &processing audio and video
Animation format
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Electronic Document Format
Text format
Simple Text File Format (TXT)
Rich Text Format (RTF) Portable Document Format (PDF)
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Microsoft Word Document (DOC)
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Electronic Document Format
Image format
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Joint Photographers Expert Group
(JPEG) Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Bit Map Picture (BMP)
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Electronic Document Format
Video format Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
Real Video (RA/RAM)
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Windows Media Video (WMV)
QuickTime (MOV)
Flash Video (FLV)
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Electronic Document Format
Animated format
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
Shockwave Flash (SWF)
Quick Time (QT)
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Digital Collections
Existing electronic documents
Future electronic documents
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Managing Electronic Collections
Electronic collections Electronic format
Indexing & Retrieval
Storage
Access
Delivery Archive
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Digital Library
A digital library is an organised and
focused collection of digital objects,
including text, images, video and audio,
along with methods for access andretrieval, and for selection, creation,
organization, maintenance and sharing
of the collection
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Digital Library:
Key Components
Selection and Acquisition
Organization of documents
Indexing and storage Search and retrieval
Access and delivery
Compliance to Standards
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Digital Library Software
A key requirement for developmentand deployment
- Commercial Software
- Open Source Software (OSS)
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Open Source Software
Ability to run, change, and improve the
software
Redistribute it in modified or
unmodified form
Collaborative software method
Source Code is made accessible
Driver of innovation
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Open Source Software
- Source Code developed over theInternet (Public View)
- Reliability Peer Review
- No dependency on Vendor
- No license fee
- Flexibility to customize
- User-centric development
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OSS Applications
Operating System
- Linux
Application Software
- Desktop : OpenOffice
- Web Browser: Firefox
Many other applications
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Open Source Software
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Open Source Software
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Open Source Software
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Open Source Software
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Digital Library Software
Greenstone Digital Library Software
www.greenstone.org
Kete
http://kete.net.nz
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Greenstone
Digital Library Software
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Kete Digital Library Software
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Greenstone Digital Library
Software (GSDL)
Open Source Software promoted by New
Zealand Digital Library Project Produced at the University of Waikato,
New Zealand
Developed and distributed in cooperationwith UNESCO and Human Info NGO,
Belgium
Issued under the GNU General PublicLicense
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GSDL : Introduction
Building digital libraries
Distributing digital collections
Organizing information
Publishing on the Internet
CD-ROM Collection
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GSDL - Objective
The aim of the software is to
empower users, particularly, in
universities, libraries and other
public service institutions,to build their own digital libraries.
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GSDL: Download
Current Version 2.82 (16 June 2009)
This distribution includes:
- Pre-built demonstration
collection
- Developing new collections
Available for free to download from
- www.greenstone.org- www.sourceforge.net
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GSDL: Download
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GSDL - Features
Platforms:
Runs on all versions of Windows, Unix,
Mac OS-X.
End users can install the software on
desktops
Institutional users run it on their mainweb server, where it interoperates with
standard web server software (Apache).
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GSDL - Features
Interface:
End users access the digital library
collections through the User Interface,
which operates within a web browser.
The Librarian Interface is a Java-based
graphical interface
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GSDL - FeaturesMetadata Format:
New metadata sets can be defined usingGreenstones Metadata Set Editor.
The pre-defined metadata sets in GSDL are:
- Dublin Core (DC)- RFC 1807
- New Zealand Government Locater Service(NZGLS)
- Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS)
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GSDL - FeaturesPlug-ins:
Used to ingest externally prepared metadata indifferent forms
Plug-ins exist for XML, MARC, CDS/ISIS, ProCite,BibTex, Refer, OAI, DSpace, METS.
Plug-ins are also used to ingest documents indifferent formats.
For textual documents, the plug-ins are: PDF,Postscript, Word, RTF, HTML, Plain Text,Latex,
ZIP Archives, Excel, PPT, Email, Source Code. For multimedia, the plug-ins are: Images (GIF,
TIFF, JPG, JIF), MP3 Audio, MPEG, MIDI, etc.
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GSDL - FeaturesInteroperability:
Can harvest documents over OAI-PMH (OpenArchives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) andinclude them in a collection.
Any collection can be exported to METS andGreenstone can ingest documents in METS form.
Any collection can be exported to DSpace readyfor DSpaces batch import program, and any
DSpace collection can be imported intoGreenstone.
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GSDL - Features
Multilingual:
Uses UNICODE, which facilitates building,searching and browsing in any UNICODEcompliant language
The Users interface is available in a number oflanguages, including Bengali, Hindi and Kannada
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GSDL - Features
Indexing:
Can build indexes from full textdocuments and also metadata associated
with these documents.
The indexes can be created for various
metadata fields either automatically
extracted or manually assigned.
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GSDL - Features
Search and Browse:
Provides a variety of search options
as full text based indexing is madepossible.
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GSDL: Summary of features Easy Installation and easy Maintenance
Content Development - Predominantly GLI Interface Customization
Front Page Design, Header for the Digital
Library, Collection Icon, Cover Images Collection Configuration (Collect.cfg) File
Scalability, Flexibility
Interoperability (Crosswalk), OAI Compliance
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GSDL : Summary of features
Accessible via any Web browserServer runs on Windows and Linux
Collections can be published on CD-ROM
Full-text and fielded search
Flexible browsing facilities
Metadata-based (Dublin Core)
Collection-specific
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GSDL: Summary of features
Hierarchical phrase browsing supported
Creates all access structures automatically
Plugins new document, metadata format
Classifiers new metadata browsers
Multilingual: Documents and Interfaces
Multimedia: video, audio collections
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GSDL Installation (Windows)
Version 2.81
To run Greenstone under any 32 bitWindows environment (that is, Windows
95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP etc.).
Standard Windows installer program,simply download the file and double-click
it to install
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GSDL : Software Required
Greenstone Digital Library Software
http://www.greenstone.org
(Release 2.81 onwards JRE & ImageMagick are included in the
GSDL installer) Web Browser
(Internet Explorer/Netscape/Mozilla)
http://www.msn.com;http://www.netscape.com
http://www.mozilla.com
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GSDL - Installation
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GSDL Installation
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GSDL - Installation
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GSDL - Installation
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GSDL - GLI The installation of the GLI is integrated with
the installation of GSDL.
Java based interface for building digital librarycollections
Very user-friendly approach to building digitalcollections.
Targeted at four different levels of user Assistant Librarians, Librarians, Library SystemSpecialists and Expert users.
Supports seven basic activities such as
Download, Gather, Enrich, Design, Format,Build and Preview the collection.
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GSDL GLI
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GSDL - GLI Download Downloading files and websites from the
Internet
Gather Gathering the source documents that willcomprise the collection and associate appropriatemetadata element set.
Enrich Assigning metadata for each source document
Design Specifying collection configuration in terms ofindexes, classifiers, etc.
Create Creating the collection
Format Designing the appearance of the Collection
Build and Preview Building andPreviewing the createdcollection
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GSDL-GLI: Download
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GSDL GLI: Gather
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GSDL GLI: Enrich
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GSDL-GLI: Enrich (DC)Title The name given to the resource by the
creator or publisher
Creator The person responsible for the intellectualcontent of the resourceSubject The Topic of the resource
Description A textual description of the content of thesource
Publisher The Entity responsible for making theresource available
Contributor A person or organization (other than theCreator) who is responsible for makingsignificant contributions to the
intellectual content of the resourceDate A date associated with the creation or
availability of the resource
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GSDL-GLI: Enrich (DC)Type The nature or genre of the content of the
resource
Format The physical or digital manifestation of theresource
Identifier An unambiguous reference that uniquelyidentifies the resource within a given context
Source A reference to a second resource from which
the present resource is derivedLanguage The language of the intellectual content ofthe resource
Relation A reference to a related resource, and thenature of its relationship
Coverage Spatial locations and temporal durationscharacteristic of the content of the resource
Rights Information about rights held in the resource
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GSDL GLI: Design
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GSDL GLI: Create
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GSDL GLI: Build
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GSDL GLI: Preview
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GSDL-GLI: Format
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Greenstone User Interface Access the collection through its user interface.
Searching the collections: Plain Search and Form-Based Search
Browsing the documents by metadata fields
View complete content
Highlight matching search terms or not Detach the document for viewing in a different
window.
The Preference setting allows the user to change
the language of the Greenstone interface.
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Greenstone User Interface
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Greenstone User Interface
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Greenstone User Interface
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Greenstone User Interface
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Greenstone User Interface
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Greenstone User Interface
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Greenstone User Interface
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GSDL - Customization
Greenstone Pages are controlled by macro files
(available in Greenstone
macros), images, andCSS style sheets (available in Greenstone
images)
The user interface look-and-feel can be altered
using "macros" written in a simple macro
language
Home page can be customized by editing
yourhome.dm in main.cfg
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GSDL - Customization
Macro files
stored in gsdl/macros folder each file defines one or more packages
(A package is a group of macros)
listed in etc/main.cfg Collection-specific macros
Stored in
gsdl/collect/mycol/macros/extra.dm
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GSDL -Customization
Collection configuration file
gsdl/collect/mycol/etc/collect.cfg Images
gsdl/images
Macro files gsdl/macros/*.dm
List of macro files
gsdl/etc/main.cfg
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GSDL: Example Collections
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GSDL - Support
www.greenstone.org
http://greenstone.org
Greenstone Mailing List
https://list.scms.waikato.ac.nz/mailman
/listinfo/greenstone-users
Greenstone Support Network India Asia
Region ([email protected])
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GSDL Archives
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Greenstone Wiki
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GSDL -Support
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GSDL - Examples
Some of Indian DLs using GSDL
Archives of Indian Labour, Noida
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
M G S Institute of Public Administration,Punjab, Chandigarh
Many
GSDL E l DL
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GSDL Example DLs
GSDL E l DL
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GSDL Example DLs
GSDL E l DL
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GSDL E l DL
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GSDL E l DL
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GSDL E l DL
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GSDL Example DLs
GSDL Examples
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GSDL Examples
Could be yours
your library !
GSDL Demo
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GSDL Demo Demo on Collection building
- Creating a simple multi format
collection
- Creating a simple image collection- Creating a CD-ROM of an
independent collection
Discussion
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Discussion
Thank youfor your attention!