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_pagetitle_ {NZDL: Greenstone Digital Library Software}

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<h4>The Greenstone software</h4>

<p> The Greenstone Digital Library software provides a new way of
organizing information and making it available over the Internet.  A
<i>collection</i> of information comprises several (typically several
thousand, or even several million) <i>documents</i>, which share a uniform
searching and browsing interface.  The collections in a library are
organized in a different way--though they share a strong family
resemblance.  Although primarily designed for access over the Web,
Greenstone collections can be made available, in precisely the same form,
on CD-ROM for standalone PCs.  Greenstone is open-source software,
available under the terms of the Gnu public license.  Documentation is
available in the form of <i>The Greenstone Digital Library Software</i>
manual.

<h4>Installing Greenstone</h4>

<p> To install on unix systems:

<ul>
<li>Download the <a href="http://www.nzdl.org/technology/gsdl-2.12.tar.gz"><i>gsdl-2.12</i></a> distribution <i>(4.6 Mb)</i>.
<li>Extract the gzipped tar archive <i>(tar xvzf gsdl-2.12.tar.gz)</i>.
<li>In the resulting gsdl directory type <i>./configure</i>. When the configure script has finished running type
<i>make</i>, then <i>make install</i>.
<li><i>make install</i> copies the compiled executable file into the gsdl/cgi-bin directory by default. To
run the library as a cgi script move the executable and the gsdlsite.cfg configuration file to your 
systems cgi-bin directory.
<li>The gsdlsite.cfg configuration file must be edited to suit your site. The gsdlhome entry will need to 
be set to point to your gsdl directory. Other fields that may need changing are httpprefix (the web path 
to the gsdl directory) and httpimg (the path to gsdl/images).
<li>To build the demonstration collection that comes with the distribution run the builddemo.sh script
from within the gsdl directory.
<li>For more information on using the Greenstone software, download <i>The Greenstone Digital Library Software</i> manual.
</ul>

<p> The current distribution of the Greenstone software was developed primarily for use on unix systems.
The software does run under Windows/DOS however and windows specific distributions (including pre-compiled 
binaries) will soon be made available.

<h4>Greenstone Collections</h4>
Several of the smaller collections on this website are available for
download. Once the main Greenstone distribution is installed simply
download the required collection and extract the gzipped tar file to your
gsdl/collect directory. You then need to import and build your new
collection. See <i>The Greenstone Digital Library Software</i> manual for
details on importing and building collections. The Greenstone software will
automatically notice your new collection and include it in the home page
once it has been built successfully.
<p><a href="http://www.nzdl.org/technology/arabic.tar.gz">arabic demonstration collection</a> <i>(4.2 Mb)</i>.
<br><a href="http://www.nzdl.org/technology/chinese.tar.gz">chinese demonstration collection</a> <i>(470 kb)</i>.
<br><a href="http://www.nzdl.org/technology/hcibib.tar.gz">the hci bibliography</a> <i>(4.8 Mb)</i>.
<br><a href="http://www.nzdl.org/technology/ipc.tar.gz">indigenous peoples</a> <i>(3.6 Mb)</i>.
<br><a href="http://www.nzdl.org/technology/tcc.tar.gz">the computists' weekly</a> <i>(5.0 Mb)</i>.
<br><a href="http://www.nzdl.org/technology/tidbits.tar.gz">tidbits</a> <i>(5.4 Mb)</i>.

<h4>Bugs</h4>
Please report bugs or installation problems to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>

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