As part of the work on Greenstone 3 we are running a survey on users’ experiences with customizing pages in Greenstone 2 – format statements, macros etc.
We welcome your comments on how we can make collection customization easier in Greenstone 3; the brief anonymous survey is here:
See the Greenstone3 home page. Greenstone2 will continue to be supported for a long time yet (years), but ultimately we see Greenstone3 replacing it. This is a beta release: it contains (virtually) all the features needed for Greenstone2 compatibility, and has been extensively tested. We have added a new section to the Wiki on Greenstone3, and in particular a new page entitled Greenstone3 for Greenstone2 users about how to set it up and migrate your collections (with a list of possible problem areas). Greenstone2 is certainly not yet in the past, but Greenstone3 is definitely the future!
New documentation is available at the documentation section of the Greenstone support for South Asia website. Three new documents have been added entitled Greenstone: A Beginner’s Guide, WINISIS to Greenstone: A Guide and Creating Digital Archives with Winisis.
Interested in the history of the Greenstone project? Here is a brief account.
Greenstone v2.72 released! A stable release containing new features and bug fixes. See the release notes for more information.
The UNESCO CD-ROM containing Greenstone 2.70u, plus all documentation (English/French/Spanish/Russian), plus 4 documented example collections, plus associated software like Java and ImageMagick, is available at no charge from Jean-Claude Dauphin ([email protected]) or Susannah Farey ([email protected]).
There is now a Greenstone documentation Wiki that brings together all Greenstone documentation, including manuals, FAQ, tutorial exercises (with sample files), example collections, teaching material, and much more. Please help us with this documentation project; here’s how.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has produced an excellent self-instructional module on Digitization and Digital Libraries, which includes a unit on Greenstone.
Building collections on a remote Greenstone server. This scheme allows users to augment and edit collections that are held on a remote Greenstone server. Users work with a modified version of the Greenstone Librarian Interface but do not need to have Greenstone running locally. Multiple users can collaborate on the same collection (though not at the same time). Here are details of an experimental version that you can download (En Español).
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