The Greenstone Librarian Interface - Help Pages

| 2.1: Creating a New Collection |

To create a new collection, open the "File" menu and choose "New". Several fields need to be filled out -- but you can change their values later if you need to, in the Format view.

"Collection title" is the text displayed at the top of your collection's home page. It can be any length.

"Description of content" should describe, in as much detail as possible, what the collection is about. Use the [Enter] key to break it into paragraphs.

Finally you must specify whether the new collection will have the same appearance and metadata sets as an existing collection, or whether to start a default "New Collection". Default new collections have a standard configuration and use the Dublin Core metadata set. These can be changed later.

Click "OK" to create the collection.

Clicking "Cancel" returns you to the main screen immediately.