[16227] | 1 | Title Greenstone digital library software
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| 3 | Purpose A suite of digital library software which includes the ability to
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| 4 | serve digital library collections and build new collections
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| 5 |
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| 6 | Author New Zealand Digital Library Project
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| 7 |
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| 8 | License GNU General Public Licence (Version 2)
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[18013] | 9 | Full terms and conditions are in the file "LICENSE.txt"
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[16227] | 10 |
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[18013] | 11 | Date December 2008
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[16227] | 12 |
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[18013] | 13 | Version 2s2008.12.01
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[16227] | 14 |
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[18013] | 15 | Contents: Programs
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| 16 | Greenstone library server A cgi program to serve digital library collections
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| 17 | Greenstone oaiserver A cgi program to serve collections using the OAI-PMH protocol.
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| 18 | Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI)
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| 19 | A graphical tool for collection building
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| 20 | Greenstone Editor for Metadata Sets (GEMS)
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| 21 | A graphical tool for creating and editing metadata sets used by GLI
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| 22 |
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| 23 | Contents: Directory Structure
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| 24 | bin Executable code
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| 25 | cgi-bin CGI scripts
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| 26 | collect Collections
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| 27 | etc Configuration files, log files, user databases etc
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| 28 | gli Librarian Interface
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| 29 | images Images and CSS files used by the interface
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| 30 | macros Display macros
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| 31 | mappings Unicode translation tables
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| 32 | perllib Perl modules used for collection building
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| 33 |
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| 34 | If source code is present (from a source release or by adding the source component):
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| 35 | common-src Source code and packages used when building collections and at runtime
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| 36 | build-src Source code and packages only used when building collections
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| 37 | runtime-src Source code and packages only used at runtime
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[16227] | 38 |
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[18013] | 39 | Additional Packages
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[18035] | 40 | Java Runtime Environment
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| 41 | Imagemagick
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| 42 | Ghostscript
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| 43 | Perl
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[16227] | 44 |
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[18013] | 45 | Documentation and Support
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| 46 | Greenstone Website:
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| 47 | http://www.greenstone.org
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| 48 | Greenstone's main website.
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| 49 | Greenstone Wiki:
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| 50 | http://wiki.greenstone.org
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| 51 | Contains documentation, and links to manuals, tutorials etc...
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| 52 | Greenstone Mailing List:
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| 53 | https://list.scms.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/greenstone-users (to subscribe)
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| 54 | [email protected] (to post)
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| 55 | New Zealand Digital Library:
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| 56 | http://www.nzdl.org
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| 57 | A demonstration site containing lots of collections
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| 58 |
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| 59 |
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[16227] | 60 | Platform
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[18013] | 61 | Greenstone runs on Unix, Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 and Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard).
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| 62 |
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| 63 |
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| 64 | The Greenstone Librarian Interface requires version 1.4 or later
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| 65 | of the Java Runtime Environment. Java 1.6 is included in the binary
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| 66 | release of Greenstone.
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[16227] | 67 |
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| 68 | The Greenstone user interface uses a Web browser capable of Javascript,
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| 69 | Tables, and Frames. Browsers that meet these requirements include:
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| 70 |
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| 71 | Netscape Navigator 4.0
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| 72 | Internet Explorer 4.0
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[18013] | 73 | Mozilla
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| 74 | Safari
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[16227] | 75 |
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[18013] | 76 | More recent versions of these browsers should also work (recommended).
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[16227] | 77 |
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[18013] | 79 |
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| 80 | Unix
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| 81 | Source code has been compiled and tested on Linux and Solaris.
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[16227] | 82 | Binary code requires an Intel x86-based Linux distribution which
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| 83 | includes ELF binary support and supports the GNU C library (glibc 2.0
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| 84 | or greater). Distributions that meet these requirements include:
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| 85 |
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| 86 | RedHat 5.1
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| 87 | SuSE Linux 6.1
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| 88 | Debian 2.1
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| 89 | Slackware 4.0
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| 90 |
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| 91 | More recent versions of these distributions should also work.
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[18013] | 92 |
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| 93 | We have tested Greenstone 2 on the following distributions:
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| 94 | Ubuntu 8.04 & 8.10
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| 95 | Mandriva 2008 Spring
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| 96 | OpenSUSE 11
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| 97 | Fedora 6 & 9
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| 98 | CentOS 5.2
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[18013] | 100 | Windows
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[18035] | 101 | Source code can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, 7 (VS 2003.Net).
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[16227] | 102 |
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[18013] | 103 | Binary code has been tested on 32 bits version of:
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| 104 | Windows 2000
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| 105 | Windows XP
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| 106 | Windows Server 2003
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| 107 | Windows Vista
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| 108 | Windows Server 2008
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[16227] | 109 |
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[18013] | 110 | Greenstone software (version 2.81 and later) no longer runs on
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| 111 | Windows 3.1
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| 112 | Windows 95
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| 113 | Windows 98
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| 114 | Windows Me
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| 115 | Windows NT
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[18037] | 117 | Mac (Binary release limited to Mac OS Leopard)
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[18013] | 118 | Source code has been compiled with Xcode 3.1 on Intel Mac OS 10.5.2.
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| 119 | Binary has been tested on Intel Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard).
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[16227] | 120 |
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[18013] | 121 | However the source code can be compiled with other versions of Mac OS and Xcode,
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[18037] | 122 | in that case please download Imagemagick and Ghostscript to recompile them from source.
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| 123 | Please find more information on how to compile Greentone 2 on Mac at this page:
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| 124 | http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Greenstone_2_from_source_for_Beginners#Compiling_the_Source |
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