| [18053] | 1 | Title Greenstone digital library software
|
|---|
| 2 |
|
|---|
| 3 | Purpose A suite of digital library software which includes the ability to
|
|---|
| 4 | serve digital library collections and build new collections
|
|---|
| 5 |
|
|---|
| 6 | Author New Zealand Digital Library Project
|
|---|
| 7 |
|
|---|
| 8 | License GNU General Public Licence (Version 2)
|
|---|
| 9 | Full terms and conditions are in the file "LICENSE.txt"
|
|---|
| 10 |
|
|---|
| 11 | Date December 2008
|
|---|
| 12 |
|
|---|
| 13 | Version svn-trunk
|
|---|
| 14 |
|
|---|
| 15 | Contents: Programs
|
|---|
| 16 |
|
|---|
| 17 | Greenstone library server A cgi program to serve digital library
|
|---|
| 18 | collections
|
|---|
| 19 | Greenstone oaiserver A cgi program to serve collections using
|
|---|
| 20 | the OAI-PMH protocol.
|
|---|
| 21 | Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI)
|
|---|
| 22 | A graphical tool for collection building
|
|---|
| 23 | Greenstone Editor for Metadata Sets (GEMS)
|
|---|
| 24 | A graphical tool for creating and editing
|
|---|
| 25 | metadata sets used by GLI
|
|---|
| 26 |
|
|---|
| 27 | Contents: Directory Structure
|
|---|
| 28 |
|
|---|
| 29 | bin Executable code
|
|---|
| 30 | cgi-bin CGI scripts
|
|---|
| 31 | collect Collections
|
|---|
| 32 | etc Configuration files, log files, user databases etc
|
|---|
| 33 | gli Librarian Interface
|
|---|
| 34 | images Images and CSS files used by the interface
|
|---|
| 35 | macros Display macros
|
|---|
| 36 | mappings Unicode translation tables
|
|---|
| 37 | perllib Perl modules used for collection building
|
|---|
| 38 |
|
|---|
| 39 | If source code is present (from a source release or by adding the
|
|---|
| 40 | source component):
|
|---|
| 41 | common-src Source code and packages used when building collections
|
|---|
| 42 | and at runtime
|
|---|
| 43 | build-src Source code and packages only used when building
|
|---|
| 44 | collections
|
|---|
| 45 | runtime-src Source code and packages only used at runtime
|
|---|
| 46 |
|
|---|
| 47 | Contents: Additional Packages (available only in full binary releases)
|
|---|
| 48 |
|
|---|
| 49 | Java Runtime 1.6 (installer release only)
|
|---|
| 50 | ImageMagick
|
|---|
| 51 | Ghostscript (Windows, Mac only)
|
|---|
| 52 | Perl (Windows only)
|
|---|
| 53 |
|
|---|
| 54 | Documentation and Support
|
|---|
| 55 | Greenstone Website:
|
|---|
| 56 | http://www.greenstone.org
|
|---|
| 57 | Greenstone's main website.
|
|---|
| 58 | Greenstone Wiki:
|
|---|
| 59 | http://wiki.greenstone.org
|
|---|
| 60 | Contains documentation, and links to manuals, tutorials
|
|---|
| 61 | etc.
|
|---|
| 62 | Greenstone Mailing List:
|
|---|
| 63 | https://list.scms.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/greenstone-users (to subscribe)
|
|---|
| 64 | [email protected] (to post)
|
|---|
| 65 | New Zealand Digital Library:
|
|---|
| 66 | http://www.nzdl.org
|
|---|
| 67 | A demonstration site containing lots of collections
|
|---|
| 68 |
|
|---|
| 69 |
|
|---|
| 70 | Platform
|
|---|
| 71 |
|
|---|
| 72 | Greenstone runs on Unix, Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 and
|
|---|
| 73 | Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard).
|
|---|
| 74 |
|
|---|
| 75 | The Greenstone Librarian Interface requires version 1.4 or later
|
|---|
| 76 | of the Java Runtime Environment. Java 1.6 is included in binary
|
|---|
| 77 | releases of Greenstone.
|
|---|
| 78 |
|
|---|
| 79 | The Greenstone user interface uses a Web browser capable of Javascript,
|
|---|
| 80 | Tables, and Frames. Browsers that meet these requirements include:
|
|---|
| 81 |
|
|---|
| 82 | Netscape Navigator 4.0
|
|---|
| 83 | Internet Explorer 4.0
|
|---|
| 84 | Mozilla
|
|---|
| 85 | Safari
|
|---|
| 86 |
|
|---|
| 87 | More recent versions of these browsers should also work (recommended).
|
|---|
| 88 |
|
|---|
| 89 | Unix
|
|---|
| 90 | Source code has been compiled and tested on the following
|
|---|
| 91 | distributions:
|
|---|
| 92 |
|
|---|
| 93 | Ubuntu 8.04 & 8.10
|
|---|
| 94 | Mandriva 2008 Spring
|
|---|
| 95 | OpenSUSE 11
|
|---|
| 96 | Fedora 6 & 9
|
|---|
| 97 | CentOS 5.2
|
|---|
| 98 |
|
|---|
| 99 |
|
|---|
| 100 | Windows
|
|---|
| 101 | Source code can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, 7
|
|---|
| 102 | (VS 2003.Net), 8 (VS 2005 Pro or VC++ Express 2005 with Microsoft
|
|---|
| 103 | Platform SDK 2003 R2).
|
|---|
| 104 |
|
|---|
| 105 | Binary code has been tested on 32 bit versions of:
|
|---|
| 106 | Windows 2000
|
|---|
| 107 | Windows XP
|
|---|
| 108 | Windows Server 2003
|
|---|
| 109 | Windows Vista
|
|---|
| 110 | Windows Server 2008
|
|---|
| 111 |
|
|---|
| 112 | Greenstone software (version 2.81 and later) no longer runs on
|
|---|
| 113 | Windows 3.1
|
|---|
| 114 | Windows 95
|
|---|
| 115 | Windows 98
|
|---|
| 116 | Windows Me
|
|---|
| 117 | Windows NT
|
|---|
| 118 |
|
|---|
| 119 | Mac
|
|---|
| 120 | Source code has been compiled with Xcode 3.1 on Intel Mac OS 10.5.2.
|
|---|
| 121 | Binary has been tested on Intel Mac OS 10.5.2 (Leopard).
|
|---|
| 122 |
|
|---|
| 123 | However the source code can be compiled with other versions of Mac OS
|
|---|
| 124 | and Xcode, in that case please download Imagemagick and Ghostscript to
|
|---|
| 125 | recompile them from source.
|
|---|
