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1package Global
2
3_t17_ {
4The downloads available from the <a href="_httppagex_(download)">download</a> page
5are hosted by <a href="http://sourceforge.net">Sourceforge</a>.
6}
7
8
9#######################################################################
10
11package home
12
13_t1_ {About Greenstone}
14
15_t2_ {
16Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital
17library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and
18publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the
19<b>New Zealand Digital Library Project</b> at the <b>University of
20Waikato</b>, and developed and distributed in cooperation with
21<b>UNESCO</b> and the <b>Human Info NGO</b>. It is <b>open-source,
22multilingual</b> software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public
23License.
24}
25
26_namur_{
27The Greenstone project is the seventh recipient of the biennial
28<a href="http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/IFIP/award.html">Namur award</a>, which
29recognizes recipients for raising awareness internationally of the social
30implications of information and communication technologies.
31}
32
33_t3_ {
34UNESCO is running regional training workshops on the use of Greenstone.
35In 2003 they were in
36<a href="_httppagex_(report)">Bangalore, India</a> in August; Dakar,
37Senegal in September, and <a href="_httppagex_(reportSuva)">Suva, Fiji</a> in November.
38<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12123&release_id=202808">Here</a> is a package of all material that we prepared for the Suva workshop: lectures, labs, documents, test files, etc. It focuses on building collections with the Librarian Interface.
39Please feel free to use it for learning -- or teaching! -- Greenstone.
40}
41
42_t4_ {
43<a
44href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone/">Download</a> Greenstone v2.41.
45The Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI),
46an easy-to-use frontend to Greenstone's collection-building
47functionality, has been extensively user tested and debugged.
48If you haven't already tried it, now is a great
49time to do so (and if you ran into problems before, please try this new version).
50Greenstone 2.41 also includes a new plugin for processing CDS/ISIS databases, the ability to export multiple collections to
51CD-ROM, and many other bug fixes and improvements.
52}
53
54_t5_ {
55One of the trickier parts of using Greenstone is coming up with a
56configuration file for your collection. To help learn how to do it,
57several fully-documented example collections have been placed at <a
58href="http://nzdl.org">nzdl.org</a> which explain, on the collection home page, just how they have been put together.
59}
60
61_t6_ {
62The complete Greenstone interface, and all documentation, is available in
63<b>English</b>, <b>French</b>, <b>Spanish</b>, <b>Russian</b> and
64<b>Kazakh</b>. Greenstone also has interfaces in many <a
65href="_httppagex_(intn)">other languages</a>. We are looking for <a
66href="_httppagex_(intn)#maintainers">volunteers</a> to add new language
67interfaces and help maintain existing ones.
68}
69
70_t7_ {
71The aim of the software is to empower users, particularly in universities,
72libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own
73digital libraries. Digital libraries are radically reforming how
74information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO's partner communities
75and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the
76world, and particularly in developing countries. We hope that this
77software will encourage the effective deployment of digital libraries to
78share information and place it in the public domain. Further information
79can be found in the book <a href="http://www.nzdl.org/howto">How to build a
80digital library</a>, authored by two of the the group's project members.
81}
82
83_t8_ {
84Also, the collect.cfg files for many of the collections at <a
85href="http://www.nzdl.org">www.nzdl.org</a> have been made available <a
86href="_httppagex_(colcfg)">here</a>.
87}
88
89_t9_ {
90This software is developed and distributed as an international cooperative
91effort established in August 2000 among three parties.
92}
93
94_t10_ {
95New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato
96}
97
98_t11_ {
99Greenstone software grew out of this project, and this initiative has been
100endorsed by the Communication Sub-Commission of the New Zealand National
101Commission for UNESCO as part of New Zealand's contribution to UNESCO's
102programme.
103}
104
105_t12_ {
106United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
107}
108
109_t13_ {
110The dissemination of educational, scientific and cultural information
111throughout the world, and particularly its availability in developing
112countries, is central to UNESCO's goals as pursued within its
113intergovernmental Information for All Programme, and appropriate,
114accessible information and communication technology is seen as an important
115tool in this context.
116}
117
118_t14_ {
119The Human Info NGO, based in Antwerp, Belgium
120}
121
122_t15_ {
123This project works with UN agencies and other NGOs, and has established a
124worldwide reputation for digitizing documentation of interest to human
125development and making it widely available, free of charge to developing
126nations and on a cost-recovery basis to others.
127}
128
129_t16_ {
130If you download Greenstone and install it with standard demonstration
131collections, or if you install it from the Greenstone CD-ROM, it will look
132exactly like <a
133href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/democols/library">this</a>.
134}
135
136
137#######################################################################
138
139package download
140
141_t18_ {Download Greenstone}
142
143_t19_ {
144Greenstone is open-source software, distributed under the terms of the <a
145href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
146License</a>. It runs on Windows and Unix, and both source code and binaries
147are available for download. It is fully documented in English, French,
148Spanish and Russian.
149}
150
151_t20_ {
152Select the Greenstone distribution you require from the list below. Each
153distribution provides a complete interface in English, French, Spanish and
154Russian.
155}
156
157_t21_ {
158Each distribution also includes the &quot;Greenstone Librarian
159Interface&quot;, a graphical tool for building digital libraries. It gives
160you access to Greenstone's functionality from an easy-to-use 'point and
161click' interface. To use this tool you will need a suitable Java Run-time
162Environment, which you can download from <a
163href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html">here</a> (choose the
164JRE, not the SDK).
165}
166
167_t22_ {Windows distribution}
168
169_t23_ {
170This is the distribution you want if you're going to run Greenstone under
171any 32 bit Windows environment (that is, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP etc.).
172}
173
174_t24_ {
175Note that Greenstone will also run on 16 bit Windows (that is, Windows
1763.1/3.11). The installer program used by this distribution will not work on
177these versions of Windows however. Please <a
178href="_httppagex_(support)">contact us</a> if you need a version of
179Greenstone for 16 bit Windows.
180}
181
182_t25_ {
183Using this distribution you may either install the &quot;local
184library&quot;, the &quot;web library&quot;, or install and compile the
185source code (click <a href="_httppagex_(faq-installing)#1">here</a> for a
186description of the differences between the &quot;local library&quot; and
187the &quot;web library&quot;). You will be asked which form of Greenstone
188you want during the installation process.
189}
190
191_t26_ {
192This distribution includes everything you need to run Greenstone (including
193a pre-built demonstration collection) and to build new Greenstone
194collections. Some functionality is not included however, mostly in an
195attempt to keep the distribution as small as possible. See <a
196href="#packages">below</a> for details on how to get this missing
197functionality.
198}
199
200_t27_ {
201This distribution uses a standard Windows installer program, simply
202download the file and double-click it to install (see the <a
203href="_httpguide_(Install,en)">Installer's Guide</a> for more detailed
204installation instructions).
205}
206
207_t28_ {Unix distribution}
208
209_t29_ {
210This is the recommended distribution if you're installing Greenstone on any
211form of Unix.
212}
213
214_t30_ {
215This distribution comes with statically linked linux binaries. However, it
216also contains the Greenstone source code for compiling on other forms of
217Unix (or on linux if you prefer not to use the provided binaries).
218}
219
220_t31_ {
221This distribution includes everything you need to run Greenstone (including
222a pre-built demonstration collection) and to build new Greenstone
223collections. Some functionality is not included however, mostly in an
224attempt to keep the distribution as small as possible. See <a
225href="#packages">below</a> for details on how to get this missing
226functionality.
227}
228
229_t32_ {
230To install this distribution, extract the gzipped tar archive and run the
231<i>Install.sh</i> shell script from within the <i>gsdl-X.XX-unix/Unix</i>
232directory (see the <a href="_httpguide_(Install,en)">Installer's Guide</a> for
233more detailed installation instructions).
234}
235
236_t33_ {Mac OS X distribution}
237
238_t34_ {
239This distribution contains dynamically linked binaries for Mac OS X running
240on PowerPC platforms.
241}
242
243_t35_ {
244This distribution has been tested on Mac OS X 10.2.6. It includes the
245pre-built binaries and also includes the demonstration collection,
246unbuilt. This is the first distribution for the Mac that includes the
247Greenstone Librarian Interface for building collections.
248}
249
250_t36_ {Source only distribution}
251
252_t37_ {
253This distribution contains the Greenstone source code along with the same
254demonstration collection as the distributions above (although the
255collection is not pre-built in this distribution).
256}
257
258_t38_ {
259This distribution does not have an automated installation proceedure
260(running <i>Install.sh</i> will not work). Unless you're sure you know what
261you're doing you probably want one of the distributions above, both of
262which also contain the Greenstone source. Note that you can obtain an
263up-to-date version of the Greenstone source code at any time by using <a
264href="_httppagex_(cvs)">cvs</a>.
265}
266
267_t39_ {
268The following extra packages may be downloaded and installed along with an
269existing Greenstone installation to add functionality that was left out of
270the distributions above.
271}
272
273_t40_ {Export to CD-ROM package}
274
275_t41_ {
276This package enables the &quot;export to CD-ROM&quot; function from within
277Greenstone's Collector.
278}
279
280_t42_ {
281To install, simply download the file (it will work on both Windows and Unix
282and any version of Greenstone above 2.34) and extract the zip archive into
283the gsdl\\bin\\windows directory of your existing Greenstone installation.
284}
285
286_t43_ {
287The following utilities have been developed to be used along with
288Greenstone.
289}
290
291_t44_ {The Organizer}
292
293_t45_ {
294The Organizer is a Windows application useful for automatically generating
295many of the configuration files (metadata.xml, sub.txt etc.) required by
296complex Greenstone collections.
297}
298
299_t46_ {
300To install, simply download and double-click the self-extracting executable
301file.
302}
303
304
305#######################################################################
306
307package examples
308
309_t47_ {Examples of Greenstone in Action}
310
311_t48_ {New Zealand Digital Library Project}
312
313_t49_ {
314A demonstration site set up by the developers of Greenstone, the New
315Zealand Digital Library Project. This site contains many collections,
316ranging from humanitarian information to computer science technical reports
317to demonstration collections of Chinese and Arabic documents.
318}
319
320_t50_ {Russian Greenstone Library}
321
322_t51_ {
323A Greenstone site containing several collections in the Russian
324language. This site was set up by a regional government department in the
325Mari El Republic of the Russian Federation.
326}
327
328_t52_ {Project Gutenberg}
329
330_t53_ {
331An on-going project to produce and distribute free electronic editions of
332literature, Project Gutenberg now contains more than 3,700 titles from
333Shakespeare to Dickens to the Bronte sisters. This site, maintained by
334Ibiblio, one of the original Gutenberg mirror sites, uses Greenstone to
335make the entire Gutenberg collection available in a fully searchable form.
336}
337
338_t54_ {University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart}
339
340_t55_ {
341Hochschule der Medien - an &quot;Information and Media&quot; digital
342library created by the University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany.
343}
344
345_t56_ {Gresham College Archive}
346
347_t57_ {
348A digital library created at Gresham College, London, England.
349}
350
351_t58_ {Center for the Study of Digital Libraries}
352
353_t59_ {
354Texas A&M University - A digital libraries research site containing
355prototypical Greenstone collections with an emphasis on Digital Floras.
356}
357
358_t60_ {Peking University Digital Library}
359
360_t61_ {
361Two experimental collections created at Peking University.
362}
363
364_t62_ {Music Information Retrieval Research}
365
366_t63_ {
367Virtual home of music information retrieval research.
368}
369
370_t64_ {Photograph Album}
371
372_t65_ {
373A collection of photographs taken by <a
374href="mailto:[email protected]">Gordon Paynter</a>.
375}
376
377_t66_ {Washington Research Library Consortium Special Collections}
378
379_t67_ {
380Digital material from the special collections of the eight universities of
381WRLC in Washington, D.C., USA.
382}
383
384_t68_ {Archives of Indian Labour}
385
386_t69_ {
387A collaborative project between the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute and
388the Association of Indian Labour Historians. The Archives of Indian Labour
389are dedicated to preserving and making accessible the fast depleting
390documents on the Indian working class.
391}
392
393_t70_ {NCSI Demonstration Collections}
394
395_t71_ {
396Demonstration collections created by students and staff at the National
397Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
398India. Many of these collections include content in Kannada and Hindi.
399}
400
401_t72_ {New York Botanical Garden}
402
403_t73_ {
404The rare book digitization project of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the
405New York Botanical Garden.
406}
407
408_t74_ {Lehigh University Digital Bridges Collection}
409
410_t75_ {
411A collection containing thirty books about bridges, all of which were
412published between 1811 and 1899. The collection was created at Lehigh
413University, Pennsylvania and features a heavily customized user interface.
414}
415
416_t76_ {Chopin Early Editions}
417
418_t77_ {
419A collection of digital images of early printed editions of musical
420compositions by Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Chopin. This collection was created
421by the University of Chicago Library and, once completed, will include its
422entire collection of over 400 Chopin early editions. The greenstone
423collection configuration file for this collection has also been made
424available and can be downloaded <a
425href="http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/gsdl/collect/chopin/etc/collect.cfg">here</a>.
426}
427
428_t78_ {Slavonski Brod Public Library}
429
430_t79_ {
431The pilot project of digitization of local studies collection in Slavonski
432Brod Public Library, Croatia.
433}
434
435_ex1t_ {Mirabilia Vicomercati}
436
437_ex1d_ {
438Mirabilia Vicomercati is an on-going project managed by Vimercate Public Library (Milan, Italy), aimed at the digitization of local history primary sources. Several collections will be provided - photographs, postcards, maps, text, reference, multimedia - in order to make accessible, promote and preserve the historical memory of Vimercate and its territory.
439}
440
441_ex2t_ {Illinois Wesleyan University Argus Digital Collection}
442
443_ex2d_ {
444<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ex_d">
445<td>
446Illinois Wesleyan University's newspaper The Argus has been published under student supervision continuously since 1894. This digital collection is part of an on-going project to preserve and provide access to Argus volumes published from 1894-2000.
447</td>
448<td><img src="../images/new.gif"/></td>
449</table>
450}
451
452_ex3t_ {Human Rights in Argentina}
453
454_ex3d_ {
455<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ex_d">
456<td>
457This site contains documents, photos and books covering files of children kidnapped during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, leglislation on identity, jurisprudence-related information, and many other items. It was created by the Secretary of Human Rights of Argentina under the Comisi&oacute;n Nacional por el Derecho a la Identidad (CONADI), which is a National Commission that fights for the right that a person has for knowing his or her identity -- particularly when their parents have disappeared.
458</td>
459<td><img src="../images/new.gif"/></td>
460</table>
461}
462
463_ex4t_ {Auburn University Libraries Digital Library}
464
465_ex4d_ {
466<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ex_d">
467<td>
468This site contains two Greenstone collections. <a href="http://diglib.auburn.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=postcard">Alabama Postcards</a> has over 300 postcards depicting buildings, natural settings, events and other scenes in various Alabama cities and towns in the early 20th century. These images are categorized by place as well as by title. <a href="http://diglib.auburn.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=alauths">Alabama Authors</a> gives information about 20th Century Alabama Authors which is maintained and updated by the Alabama Library Association. This collection began life as a printed document created in WordPerfect 5.2 and has been through several iterations before becoming fully searchable under Greenstone.
469</td>
470<td><img src="../images/new.gif"/></td>
471</table>
472}
473
474_ex5t_ {State Library of Tasmania Sheet Music Collection}
475
476_ex5d_ {
477<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ex_d">
478<td>
479This site makes available about two hundred items from the rich holdings of printed music in the State Library of Tasmania's Heritage Collections. They range from the 1840s to the 1930s and include pieces for piano and other instruments, brass band arrangements and songs of all sorts - popular, sacred, patriotic, and even songs written to encourage tourists to come to Tasmania.
480<!-- Most of the pieces are Tasmanian, but they also include a few written and published in Melbourne and Sydney. More than a third of them are by one composer, the extraordinary Frederick Augustus Packer (1839-1902) teacher, Hobart City Organist and the dominant figure in nineteenth-century Tasmanian musical life.--></td>
481<td><img src="../images/new.gif"/></td>
482</table>
483}
484
485
486#######################################################################
487
488package docs
489
490_t80_ {Greenstone Documentation}
491
492_t81_ {Manuals}
493
494_t82_ {
495The following Greenstone manuals are available in PDF format for
496download. They're available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and
497Kazakh.
498}
499
500_installersguide_ {Installer's Guide}
501
502_t83_ {english}
503
504_t84_ {spanish}
505
506_t85_ {french}
507
508_t86_ {russian}
509
510_t87_ {kazakh}
511
512_t88_ {
513Describes in detail the Greenstone installation process. Note that the
514<i>Installer's Guide</i> assumes that Greenstone is being installed from a
515CD-ROM distribution. The instructions should be adapted in the obvious way
516when installing from a web download.
517}
518
519_usersguide_ {User's Guide}
520
521_t90_ {
522General details on using Greenstone collections, the Collector web
523interface for building new collections, and Greenstone's administrative
524facilities.
525}
526
527_t92_ {sorry, no kazakh}
528
529_developersguide_ {Developer's Guide}
530
531_t94_ {
532A more detailed description of Greenstone's collection building process,
533including building collections from the command line or DOS prompt. Also a
534description of the structure of the Greenstone runtime system.
535}
536
537_t95_ {From Paper to Collection}
538
539_t96_ {
540A document describing the entire process of creating a digital library
541collection from paper documents. This includes the scanning and OCR process
542and the use of the &quot;Organizer&quot;.
543}
544
545_t97_ {Inside Greenstone Collections}
546
547_t98_ {english(HTML)}
548
549_t99_ {english(PDF)}
550
551_t100_ {
552One of the trickier parts of using Greenstone is coming up with a
553configuration file for your collection. To help learn how to do it, this
554document presents, and explains, the configuration files for a few actual
555Greenstone collections, and also gives an example of how Greenstone's
556appearance can be customized. (Note, this document is intended to be used
557with Greenstone version 2.40 and higher.)
558}
559
560_t101_ {MG/MG++}
561
562_t102_ {
563For information about the underlying indexing and retrieval systems used by
564Greenstone, please go <a href="http://www.nzdl.org/html/mg.html">here</a>
565for MG, or download the <a href="_httpdocsdir_/mgpp_user.pdf">MGPP user
566guide</a>.
567}
568
569_t103_ {Mailing Lists}
570
571_t104_ {
572There are two mailing lists intended primarily for discussions about the
573Greenstone digital library software. Active users of Greenstone should
574consider joining one or both of these lists and contributing to the
575discussions.
576}
577
578_t105_ {Greenstone User's List}
579
580_t106_ {
581This list is for general Greenstone discussions. To send a message to this
582list, address it to <a
583href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. There
584is an archive of previous messages to this list at <a
585href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=gsarch">www.nzdl.org</a>.
586}
587
588_t107_ {Greenstone Developer's List}
589
590_t108_ {
591This list is for more technical discussions by people developing or
592modifying Greenstone. To send a message to this list, address it to <a
593href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
594}
595
596_t369_ {User Supplied Documentation}
597
598_t370_ {Customizing the Greenstone User Interface}
599
600_t371_ {
601An illustrated guide to customizing the Greenstone user interface. Written
602by Allison Zhang of the Washington Research Library Consortium
603}
604
605#######################################################################
606
607package support
608
609_t109_ {Greenstone Support}
610
611_t110_ {
612Before asking for help, please read the <a
613href="_httppagex_(faq)">frequently asked questions</a> list.
614}
615
616_t111_ {
617For Greenstone technical support please consider joining one of the <a
618href="_httppagex_(docs)#mailing-lists">Greenstone mailing lists</a>.
619}
620
621_t112_ {
622Alternatively, fill in the form below and click the &quot;submit&quot;
623button to submit a query to the Greenstone support staff. Please fill in
624the form as fully as possible to aid our staff in giving the best possible
625service.
626}
627
628_t113_ {PERSONAL INFORMATION}
629
630_t114_ {Name}
631
632_t115_ {E-mail address}
633
634_t116_ {SYSTEM INFORMATION}
635
636_t117_ {Operating System}
637
638_t118_ {Windows 95}
639
640_t119_ {Windows 98}
641
642_t120_ {Windows ME}
643
644_t121_ {Windows NT 4}
645
646_t122_ {Windows 2000}
647
648_t123_ {Windows XP}
649
650_t124_ {Windows 3.11}
651
652_t125_ {Windows 3.1}
653
654_t126_ {Linux}
655
656_t127_ {Other (please specify below)}
657
658_t128_ {Other OS}
659
660_t129_ {CPU (type and speed)}
661
662_t130_ {Memory (RAM) in MB}
663
664_t131_ {Web browser}
665
666_t132_ {Netscape 4}
667
668_t133_ {Netscape 4.5}
669
670_t134_ {Netscape 6}
671
672_t135_ {Mozilla}
673
674_t136_ {Internet Explorer 4}
675
676_t137_ {Internet Explorer 5}
677
678_t138_ {Internet Explorer 6}
679
680_t139_ {Other web browser}
681
682_t140_ {Was your browser provided by your internet service provider?}
683
684_t141_ {no}
685
686_t142_ {yes}
687
688_t143_ {don't know}
689
690_t144_ {Is your browser configured to use a proxy?}
691
692_t145_ {Web server}
693
694_t146_ {not applicable}
695
696_t147_ {Apache 1.3}
697
698_t148_ {Apache 2.0}
699
700_t149_ {Microsoft IIS 4.0}
701
702_t150_ {Microsoft IIS 5.0}
703
704_t151_ {Microsoft PWS}
705
706_t152_ {Other server}
707
708_t153_ {GREENSTONE INFORMATION}
709
710_t154_ {Version}
711
712_t155_ {CD-ROM distribution}
713
714_t156_ {Installation type}
715
716_t157_ {local library}
717
718_t158_ {web library}
719
720_t159_ {PROBLEM DESCRIPTION}
721
722_t160_ {Problem type}
723
724_t161_ {question}
725
726_t162_ {problem/error}
727
728_t163_ {suggested enhancement}
729
730_t164_ {other}
731
732_t165_ {Can the problem be reproduced at will?}
733
734_t166_ {Short description}
735
736_t167_ {Long description}
737
738_t168_ {
739(If you are reporting a problem, please go into as much detail as possible.
740Make sure you describe all steps leading up to the problem and include any
741relevant URLs.)
742}
743
744
745#######################################################################
746
747package faq
748
749_greenstonefaq_ {Greenstone FAQ}
750
751_headinggeneral_ {General Information}
752
753_t171_ {What is Greenstone?}
754
755_t172_ {How is Greenstone licensed?}
756
757_t173_ {What platforms will Greenstone run on?}
758
759_t174_ {Are there any mailing lists concerned with Greenstone?}
760
761_t175_ {Are the mailing lists archived anywhere?}
762
763_t176_ {How do I contribute to Greenstone?}
764
765_headingobtaining_ {Obtaining Greenstone}
766
767_t178_ {Where do I get Greenstone from?}
768
769_t179_ {Are there binary distributions of Greenstone available?}
770
771_t180_ {Is Greenstone available on CD-ROM?}
772
773_t181_ {Is the Greenstone source code available via CVS?}
774
775_headinginstalling_ {Installing Greenstone}
776
777_t183_ {How do I compile Greenstone from a source or CVS distribution?}
778
779_t184_ {What is the difference between Greenstone's <i>local library</i> and <i>web library</i>?}
780
781_headingrunning_ {Running Greenstone}
782
783_t186_ {OK, I've installed Greenstone. Now how do I make it go?}
784
785_t187_ {What web browser do I need to view Greenstone collections?}
786
787_t188_ {When I start the Windows local library there are two buttons in the
788dialog box, &quot;Enter Library&quot; and &quot;Restricted
789Version&quot;. They both seem to do the same thing, what's the difference?}
790
791_t189_ {So when should I use the &quot;Restricted Version&quot; of the local library?}
792
793_t190_ {When I start the Windows local library my computer asks me to dial
794up my Internet Service Provider. Do I really need to be online to run
795Greenstone?}
796
797_t191_ {I'm trying to use the Windows local library. My web browser is
798starting up as expected but the Greenstone home page never gets loaded or gives an error message. What's wrong?}
799
800_t192_ {Where can I get more Greenstone collections?}
801
802_t193_ {When I attempt to access certain parts of Greenstone I'm asked for
803a username and password. What do I enter?}
804
805_t194_ {When I use the <i>large query box</i> function I occassionally get
806a <i>Not Found</i> error.}
807
808_headingbuilding_ {Building Greenstone Collections}
809
810_t196_ {What is &quot;the Collector&quot;?}
811
812_t197_ {How do I build a collection from the command line or DOS prompt?}
813
814_t198_ {I built a new Greenstone collection on my Windows
815machine. Everything appeared to work fine while building, however when I
816tried to view the collection some of the documents contained no
817text. Sometimes Greenstone appeared to crash completely. What have I done
818wrong?}
819
820_t199_ {Why won't the Collector's &quot;export to CD-ROM&quot; function work?}
821
822_t200_ {I'm trying to use the Collector on Windows 2000 but it's running
823extremely slowly. Is this normal?}
824
825_t201_ {What is &quot;the Organizer&quot;?}
826
827_t202_ {Where do I get the Organizer?}
828
829_t203_ {I'm attempting to build a collection with the collector but it
830keeps failing with an error. What am I doing wrong?}
831
832_t204_ {Where can I find some example collect.cfg configuration files?}
833
834_t205_ {How can I build my collection using MGPP?}
835
836_tfaqbuild11title_ {I've added a new type of classification to my collection. How do I create and add the navigation bar images?}
837
838_headingplugins_ {More About Plugins}
839
840_tfaqplugins1title_ {What metadata is available for each plugin?}
841
842_tfaqplugins2title_ {I'm having problems with my PDF files! What's wrong?}
843
844_t207_ {FAQ Main Page}
845
846_t372_ {Show entire FAQ on a single page}
847
848_t373_ {Show FAQ on multiple pages}
849
850#######################################################################
851
852package faqgen
853
854_t208_ {
855Greenstone is a suite of software which has the ability to serve digital
856library collections and build new collections. It provides a new way of
857organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM.
858}
859
860_t209_ {
861Greenstone is open-source software, distributed under the terms of the <a
862href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>.
863}
864
865_t210_ {
866Greenstone has been tested on Windows 3.1/3.11/95/98/Me/NT/2000, most
867distributions of GNU/Linux, Darwin (Mac OS X), Solaris, and FreeBSD. It
868should in fact work on any Windows or Unix system. If you use a system
869other than those mentioned and you find Greenstone doesn't run, please <a
870href="_httppagex_(support)">contact</a> us.
871<p>Please note that the downloadable Windows distribution of Greenstone
872comes with an installer that will not work on 16 bit Windows. If you need
873to use Greenstone on Windows 3.1/3.11 please <a
874href="_httppagex_(support)">contact</a> us.</p>
875}
876
877_t211_ {
878There are two Greenstone mailing lists. You can subscribe to them from the
879<a href="_httppagex_(docs)#mailing-lists">documentation</a> page.
880}
881
882_t212_ {
883The most popular mailing list ([email protected]) is
884archived as a Greenstone collection at <a
885href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=gsarch">www.nzdl.org</a>.
886Note that this collection is updated only sporadically so may not always be
887completely up to date.
888}
889
890_t213_ {
891We welcome contributions or improvements to the Greenstone software!
892<br />Before you send in any contribution, you first need to make sure that
893your changes are compatible with the latest snapshop of the Greenstone
894source code. To get the latest code you'll need to use CVS (see <a
895href="_httppagex_(cvs)">here</a> for details).
896<br />You should then send the modified files, along with details of the
897modifications you've made, to <a
898href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
899
900<p>Before beginning work, you should announce what you're doing on the <a
901href="mailto:[email protected]">greenstone developer's list</a>
902to tell us what you plan to do and get some feedback.</p>
903}
904
905
906#######################################################################
907
908package faqob
909
910_t215_ {
911From the greenstone.org <a href="_httppagex_(download)">download</a> page.
912}
913
914_t216_ {
915Yes. At present there are binary distributions for 32 bit Windows, PowerPC
916Mac OS X, and i386 linux. They can be downloaded from the <a
917href="_httppagex_(download)">download</a> page.
918}
919
920_t217_ {
921While some version 2.37 and 2.38 CD-ROMs have been produced they're not
922currently being made widely available. You are encouraged to download the
923latest release of Greenstone from the <a
924href="_httppagex_(download)">download</a> page. If your internet connection
925is such that downloading Greenstone isn't possible please <a
926href="_httppagex_(support)">contact</a> us and we may be able to arrange
927for a CD-ROM to be sent out.
928}
929
930_t218_ {
931Yes, see our <a href="_httppagex_(cvs)">CVS page</a> for details.
932}
933
934
935#######################################################################
936
937package faqinst
938
939_t220_ {
940See our <a href="_httpdocsdir_/compiling.html">compiling page</a>.
941}
942
943_t221_ {
944Firstly, the <i>local library</i> is only available if you're running
945Greenstone under Windows. It's not yet available on Unix.
946
947<p>The major difference between the two is that the <i>local library</i>
948contains it's own built-in webserver. The <i>web library</i> however,
949requires an external webserver like Apache or Microsoft IIS. This makes the
950<i>local library</i> much easier to install and configure than the web
951library.</p>
952
953<p>For this reason, it's recommended that Windows users install the
954<i>local library</i> unless they're sure that they need the <i>web
955library</i>. Even if you think you might need the <i>web library</i>, try
956installing the <i>local library</i> first. You can always uninstall it
957later and install the <i>web library</i> if you then decide you need
958it.</p>
959
960<p>A situation where the <i>web library</i> may be preferable is if you
961plan to serve your Greenstone collections as a full-time service on the
962web. In this case you'll probably want the added stability that running the
963<i>web library</i> in conjunction with an external webserver can
964provide.</p>
965
966<p>Please note that the <i>local library</i> is quite capable of serving
967Greenstone collections over a local area network or the web (despite its
968rather misleading name).</p>
969}
970
971
972#######################################################################
973
974package faqrun
975
976_t223_ {
977If you're using the Windows <i>local library</i> you should be able to
978simply select &quot;Greenstone Digital Library&quot; from within the
979programs in your <i>start</i> menu.
980
981<p>If you're using the <i>web library</i> things are a little less obvious
982however. First make sure your webserver is configured correctly and is
983running (see the <a href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone Installer's
984Guide</a> and your webserver's documentation for details). You can then
985simply open your web browser and point it at the URL of Greenstone's
986library executable. This is dependant on the way you configured Greenstone
987and your webserver. Typically it might be something like
988http://localhost/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.exe.</p>
989}
990
991_t224_ {
992Greenstone relies on a web browser that supports tables, javascript, and in
993some places, frames. Any reasonably modern browser will do. Examples are
994Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, Netscape 4, and Mozilla. Newer releases of
995all these browsers will also work.
996
997<p>If you find that your favourite web browser does not work with
998Greenstone, please <a href="_httppagex_(support)">contact us</a>.</p>
999
1000<p>Note that there is an exception to the rule that any modern browser will
1001do when running Greenstone. That is when you're using the restricted
1002version of the Windows local library when you must use Netscape. See the
1003discussion below on the differences between the &quot;Restricted
1004Version&quot; and the standard &quot;Enter Library&quot; version of the
1005local library for details.</p>
1006}
1007
1008_t225_ {
1009The webserver built into the local library uses the networking software
1010built into your Windows operating system in order to function. If your
1011computer has never been connected to a network this networking software may
1012not be installed however. For this reason Greenstone comes with some
1013networking software of it's own that it will use if it can't find any
1014installed on your computer.
1015
1016<p>When you click the &quot;Enter Library&quot; button, Greenstone first
1017checks to see if your computer has it's own networking software. If it
1018does, it starts up using that, if not it starts up using it's own
1019networking software.</p>
1020
1021<p>When you click the &quot;Restricted Version&quot; button, Greenstone
1022doesn't bother checking your system for networking software, it just goes
1023ahead and uses it's own.</p>
1024
1025<p>The catch is that there are several limitations with using the
1026Greenstone supplied networking software. The most important limitations are
1027that the local library won't be accessible from the network if run in this
1028way (that is, it really will be &quot;local&quot; to the machine on which
1029it's running) and that it must use a Netscape web browser. Using your
1030computer's built-in networking software is therefore the prefered
1031option.</p>
1032}
1033
1034_t226_ {
1035Since Greenstone will automatically use it's own networking software if it
1036can't find any installed on your computer it should not normally be
1037necessary to run the &quot;Restricted Version&quot; explicitly.
1038
1039<p>Times when it may be necessary are.</p>
1040<ul>
1041<li>If your computer's networking software has been installed incorrectly.</li>
1042<li>If Windows keeps attempting to dial up your internet service provider
1043when you click the &quot;Enter Library&quot; button.</li>
1044</ul>
1045}
1046
1047_t227_ {
1048No you don't need to be online. This is caused by the webserver built into
1049Greenstone's local library sending a message to your computer's networking
1050software to make sure it's functioning correctly. On many Windows systems
1051this causes the familiar dial up dialog box to appear. In most situations
1052you can simply cancel the dialog box and (if required) press your browser's
1053<i>reload</i> button to continue.
1054
1055<p>If this does not solve the problem, try starting the local library by
1056clicking the &quot;Restricted Version&quot; button rather than the
1057&quot;Enter Library&quot; button. See the discussion above on the
1058differences between the standard and restricted versions of the local
1059library for further details.</p>
1060}
1061
1062_t228_ {
1063<ol>
1064<li>Check your web browser's internet proxy settings and turn proxies off (use
1065<i>Edit preferences</i> on Netscape or <i>Internet options</i> on
1066Explorer).</li>
1067
1068<li>If Internet Explorer gives a message saying "The page cannot be
1069displayed" and "Cannot find server or DNS error" at the bottom of the
1070page, check in your network settings that your computer's name is set
1071up correctly. For example, if there is a DNS suffix entered in your
1072TCP/IP properties (in the Control Panel), make sure that your host
1073name and suffix are correct for your computer. If the server is running
1074correctly, you should be able to connect by visiting
1075<a href="http://127.0.0.1/">http://127.0.0.1/</a> in a web browser on the
1076same machine that the local library is running on.</li>
1077
1078</ol>
1079}
1080
1081_t229_ {
1082Collections like those at <a href="http://www.nzdl.org">www.nzdl.org</a>
1083will soon be made available for download.
1084}
1085
1086_t230_ {
1087The initial username required here is <i>admin</i>.
1088
1089<p>If you installed Greenstone using the InstallShield installer on Windows
1090or the Install.sh script on Unix you should have been asked to set a
1091password during the installation procedure.</p>
1092
1093<p>If you didn't, don't worry, the password defaults to being
1094<i>admin</i>.</p>
1095
1096<p>So if you don't know what to enter you should try username =
1097<i>admin</i>, password = <i>admin</i>.<p>
1098}
1099
1100_t231_ {
1101This may be caused by the URL becoming too long for your web
1102browser. Because Greenstone currently stores all state information in the
1103URL, if you do a search for a long phrase the URL can become very
1104long. Different browser's on different platforms have different maximum URL
1105lengths but in general it seems that Netscape can handle longer URLs than
1106can Microsoft Internet Explorer.
1107
1108<p>There is very little you can do to avoid this problem with the way
1109Greenstone is currently implemented (aside from not searching for long
1110phrases). Future versions of Greenstone may store some state information on
1111the server rather than in the URL but this has yet to be implemented.</p>
1112}
1113
1114
1115#######################################################################
1116
1117package faqbuild
1118
1119_t233_ {
1120The Collector is a web interface for building new collections, altering or
1121deleting existing collections, and exporting existing collections to
1122stand-alone CD-ROMs. The Collector is a standard part of a Greenstone
1123installation. To begin using the Collector, click the &quot;The
1124Collector&quot; button on your Greenstone home page. For further details on
1125using the Collector see the <a href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone User's
1126Guide</a>.
1127}
1128
1129_t234_ {
1130It's occasionally preferable to build your Greenstone collections from the
1131command line rather than from the Collector. This allows you greater
1132control over how your new collection turns out. See the <a
1133href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone Developer's Guide</a> for detailed step
1134by step instructions on building collections from the command line.
1135}
1136
1137_t235_ {
1138Are you running Norton Anti-Virus? There are some incompatibilities between
1139Norton and the Greenstone collection building process that cause
1140unpredictable things to happen if you build your collection while Norton is
1141running. Try disabling Norton and rebuilding the collection.
1142
1143<p>If you do not have Norton or disabling Norton does not solve the problem
1144please <a href="_httppagex_(support)">contact us</a> for further help.</p>
1145}
1146
1147_t236_ {
1148If you downloaded Greenstone from the web you will not have all the
1149components required to make the &quot;export to CD-ROM&quot; function
1150work. These extra components have been made available in a separate
1151download which you can get from the <a
1152href="_httppagex_(download)#packages">download</a> page.
1153}
1154
1155_t237_ {
1156Are you using a Netscape web browser with the local library? If so, try
1157using Internet Explorer instead. There are some socket connection problems
1158that show up on Windows 2000 when using Netscape.
1159}
1160
1161_t238_ {
1162The Organizer (also called the &quot;Collection Organizer&quot;) is a
1163Windows utility used for automatically generating some of the configuration
1164files (metadata.xml, sub.txt etc.) used by complex Greenstone collections.
1165}
1166
1167_t239_ {
1168From the <a href="_httppagex_(download)#utilities">download</a> page.
1169}
1170
1171_t240_ {
1172There are several reasons that the collector might fail to build a
1173collection and the error messages it produces are not always very helpful.
1174
1175<p>If you changed the default configuration during the <i>configure
1176collection</i> stage you'll need to make sure the changes were valid. For
1177example, if you added a new <i>classify</i> or <i>plugin</i> line you'll
1178need to make sure that the classifier and/or plugin names and arguments are
1179all correct. If they're not the collector will fail. A good test is to
1180build your collection without changing the configuration. If it builds ok
1181with the default configuration but fails after you change the configuration
1182you'll need to look closely at the changes you're making.</p>
1183
1184<p>Another good thing to do if having problems with the collector is to
1185build your collection from the command line instead. You'll get much more
1186feedback to help debug problems when building in this way. For details on
1187how to build a collection from the command line see the <a
1188href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone developer's guide</a>.</p>
1189}
1190
1191_t241_ {
1192The collect.cfg files for many of the collections at <a
1193href="http://www.nzdl.org">www.nzdl.org</a> have been made available <a
1194href="_httppagex_(colcfg)">here</a>.
1195}
1196
1197_t242_ {
1198The <a href="_httpdocsdir_/mgpp_user.pdf">MGPP user manual</a> gives some
1199instructions.
1200}
1201
1202_tfaqbuild11body_ {
1203To create and add the new buttons for a new classifier, there are several macro files that need to be edited. This is an example for the Countries metadata. <i>Countries</i> is the metadata name (or buttonname), <i>count</i> is the short form used in image names, <i>countries</i> is the text that appears on the nav bar buttons and the green title.
1204<p>
1205These lines should all be put next to the other ones ones of the same type. Use Title as an example to search for the approriate place to insert.
1206<p>
1207<i>base.dm:</i>
1208<br>
1209<br>\_Countrieswidth\_ \{\_widthcountx\_ \}
1210
1211<br>\_imageCountries\_ \{\_gsimage\_(\_httpbrowseCountries\_,\_httpicontcountof\_,\_httpicontcounton\_,countries,\_textimageCountries\_)\}
1212<br>\_icontabCountriesgreen\_ \{&lt;img
1213src="\_httpicontcountgr\_" width=\_widthtcountx\_ border=0&gt;\}
1214<br>\_icontabCountriesgreen\_[v=1] \{\_texticontabCountriesgreen\_ \}
1215<p>
1216<i>document.dm:</i>
1217<br>
1218<br>\_textCountriespage\_ \{\_texticonhcount\_ \}
1219
1220<br>\_iconCountriespage\_ \{&lt;img src="\_httpiconhcount\_" width="\_widthhcount\_"
1221height="\_heighthcount\_"&gt;\}
1222<br>\_iconCountriespage\_ [v=1] \{&lt;h2&gt;\_texticonhcount\_&lt;/h2&gt;\}
1223
1224<p>
1225<i>english.dm:</i>
1226<br>
1227<br>\_textimageCountries\_ \{Browse by countries\}
1228<br>\_texticontabCountriesgreen\_ \{Countries\}
1229<br>\_texticonhcount\_ \{Countries\}
1230<br>\_textCountriesshort\_ \{access publications by country\}
1231<br>\_textCountrieslong\_ \{&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;i&gt;access publications by country&lt;/i&gt; by
1232pressing the &lt;i&gt;countries&lt;/i&gt; button. This brings up a list of countries. \}
1233<br>
1234<br>## "countries" ## nav\_bar\_button ## tcount ##
1235<br>\_httpicontcountgr\_ \{\_httpimg\_/tcountgr.gif\}
1236<br>\_httpicontcountof\_ \{\_httpimg\_/tcountof.gif\}
1237<br>\_httpicontcounton\_ \{\_httpimg\_/tcounton.gif\}
1238<br>\_widthtcountx\_ \{87\}
1239
1240<br>## "countries" ## green_title ## h_count ##
1241<br>\_httpiconhcount\_ \{\_httpimg\_/h\_count.gif\}
1242<br>\_widthhcount\_ \{200\}
1243<br>\_heighthcount\_ \{57\}
1244
1245
1246<p>
1247The images that are needed are the nav bar images, and the title image with the green bar in the background. There are 3 nav bar images: <i>tcountgr.gif</i> is the green one and <i>tcounton.gif</i> and <i>tcountof.gif</i> are the two yellow ones for the rollover effect.
1248<i>h_count.gif</i> is the title image.
1249
1250<p>These images can be generated by copying the two ## blocks from above into a temp file and running translate.pl on it eg.
1251
1252<br>translate.pl -language_symbol en temp.dm
1253
1254<p>To add the images in other languages, you need to edit the appropriate language macro file, and add the same items as for english.dm. And run the translate script to generate the images.
1255<p>English versions of the images should be placed in the $GSDLHOME/images directory, while other language versions should be placed in the appropriate subdirectory of $GSDLHOME/images, for example $GSDLHOME/images/fr for french images.
1256}
1257
1258#######################################################################
1259
1260package faqplugins
1261
1262
1263# base puts in surrounding <p> and </p>, so skip first and last ones
1264#
1265_metadata_ {
1266
1267"Default" means that the metadata fields will be automatically assigned (or
1268extracted if possible), while the "Available fields" lists other items
1269of metadata that the plugin may be able to assign based on any arguments
1270given to that plugin in the <tt>collect.cfg</tt> file.
1271All plugins are derived from BasPlug, and have following metadata fields:
1272
1273<table border="1">
1274<tr>
1275 <th> </th>
1276 <th> Default fields </th>
1277 <th> Available fields </th>
1278</tr>
1279<tr>
1280 <td> BasPlug </td>
1281 <td> Language, Encoding, Source </td>
1282 <td> FirstNNNN, kea, Acronym </td>
1283</tr>
1284</table>
1285</p>
1286
1287<p>
1288In addition, many plugins have additional fields available:
1289<table border="1">
1290
1291<tr>
1292 <th> Plugin name </th>
1293 <th> Default fields </th>
1294 <th> Available fields </th>
1295</tr>
1296
1297<tr>
1298 <td> BibTexPlug </td>
1299 <td> Title, Creator, Abstract, Author, Booktitle, Chapter, Copyright, Date,
1300 Edition, Editor, EntryType Journal, Keywords, Month, Note, Number,
1301 Pages, Publisher, PublisherAddress, Volume, Year </td>
1302 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1303</tr>
1304
1305<tr>
1306 <td> DBPlug </td>
1307 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1308 <td> (arbitrary metadata field names based on Database configuration file)
1309 </td>
1310</tr>
1311
1312<tr>
1313 <td> EMAILPlug </td>
1314 <td> Date, DateText, From, FromAddr, FromName, Headers, Subject,
1315 Title (based on subject, from, and date), To
1316 </td>
1317 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1318</tr>
1319
1320<tr>
1321 <td> ExcelPlug </td>
1322 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1323 <td> (all fields as in HTMLPlug) </td>
1324</tr>
1325
1326<tr>
1327 <td> HTMLPlug </td>
1328 <td> Title, URL </td>
1329 <td> Author, Creator, Email (others as found in the <tt>-metadata_fields</tt> option) </td>
1330</tr>
1331
1332<tr>
1333 <td> ImagePlug </td>
1334 <td> Image, ImageHeight, ImageSize, ImageType, ImageWidth, ScreenHeight,
1335 screenicon, ScreenSize, ScreenType, ScreenWidth, Source, srclink,
1336 srcicon, Thumb, ThumbHeight, ThumbType, ThumbWidth </td>
1337 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1338</tr>
1339
1340<tr>
1341 <td> IndexPlug </td>
1342 <td> as in the <tt>index.txt</tt> file </td>
1343 <td> (use metadata.xml files instead of using this plugin) </td>
1344</tr>
1345
1346<tr>
1347 <td> MARCPlug </td>
1348 <td> Creator, Description, MarcIdentifier, MarcSource, URL, Publisher,
1349 Relation, Rights, Subject, Title, Type </td>
1350 <td> (Metadata fields as in the <tt>marctodc.txt</tt> file) </td>
1351</tr>
1352
1353<tr>
1354 <td> OAIPlug </td>
1355 <td> URL, (all metadata in <tt>.oai</tt> markup file) </td>
1356 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1357</tr>
1358
1359<tr>
1360 <td> PDFPlug </td>
1361 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1362 <td> (all fields in HTMLPlug) </td>
1363</tr>
1364
1365<tr>
1366 <td> PPTPlug </td>
1367 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1368 <td> (all fields in HTMLPlug) </td>
1369</tr>
1370
1371<tr>
1372 <td> PSPlug </td>
1373 <td> Title </td>
1374 <td> Date, Pages, (all fields in TextPlug) </td>
1375</tr>
1376
1377<tr>
1378 <td> ReferPlug </td>
1379 <td> Abstract, BookConfOnly, Booktitle, Copyright, Creator, Date, Editor,
1380 Keywords, Journal, JournalsOnly, Number, Pages, Publisher,
1381 Publisheraddr, Report, Title, Volume </td>
1382 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1383</tr>
1384
1385<tr>
1386 <td> RTFPlug </td>
1387 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1388 <td> (all fields in HTMLPlug) </td>
1389</tr>
1390
1391<tr>
1392 <td> SRCPlug </td>
1393 <td> Title, filename, includes, class, classdecl </td>
1394 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1395</tr>
1396
1397<tr>
1398 <td> TEXTPlug </td>
1399 <td> Title </td>
1400 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1401</tr>
1402
1403<tr>
1404 <td> UnknownPlug </td>
1405 <td> (as given in the <tt>-assoc_field</tt> plugin argument) </td>
1406 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1407</tr>
1408
1409<tr>
1410 <td> WordPlug </td>
1411 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1412 <td> (all fields in HTMLPlug) </td>
1413</tr>
1414
1415</table>
1416</p>
1417
1418<p>See section two of the _docs:developersguide_ for information about
1419options to plugins, or run the <tt>pluginfo.pl</tt> command on the
1420plugin name after setting up your environment for Greenstone.
1421(For example, "<tt>perl&nbsp;-S&nbsp;pluginfo.pl&nbsp;BasPlug</tt>".)
1422</p>
1423
1424<p>
1425In addition, every document can be manually assigned arbitrary metadata
1426fields and values through use of <tt>metadata.xml</tt> files, as discussed
1427in the manual.
1428}
1429
1430# base puts in surrounding <p> and </p>, so skip first and last ones
1431#
1432_pdfproblems_ {
1433PDF is a "page description language". This means that the document contains
1434objects and commands such as "draw this text here" and "draw this
1435image here".
1436</p>
1437
1438<p>
1439Greenstone uses an external program called "<tt>pdftohtml</tt>" to
1440extract text out of PDF files. Sometimes, there is no text that can be
1441extracted. This often depends on how the PDF was created.
1442
1443<ol>
1444<li>Adobe Acrobat Writer can be used to create PDFs from paper
1445documents that are scanned in by a scanner. In this case, the PDF file
1446contains images of text, rather than computer-readable text. Therefore,
1447<tt>pdftohtml</tt> cannot find any text to extract.</li>
1448
1449<li>Some programs (such as older versions of <tt>GNU ghostscript</tt>,
1450which is used by <tt>ps2pdf</tt> on Unix computers) sometimes create
1451"bitmap fonts", which means that every character in the document is
1452really an image rather than a computer readable letter. The
1453<tt>LaTeX</tt> type-setting program sometimes does this when the
1454"Computer Modern Roman" font is used.</li>
1455
1456<li>Certain characters and character combinations may be extracted incorrectly,
1457depending on the program that generated the PDF file. For example, "ligatures"
1458such as "fi", "fl", "ff" and "ffl" are often rendered using a special glyph
1459rather than as individual characters, and this information may be lost in
1460the textual representation. Also, some PDF generating programs may not
1461correctly encode accented characters. For example, to draw a lowercase "u"
1462with an umlaut accent, LaTeX draws a "u" and then draws an umlaut accent over
1463it. This means that <tt>pdftohtml</tt> will extract two separate characters
1464('š' and 'u') rather than a single accented character (Ì).</li>
1465
1466<li>PDF contains pieces of text, and coordinates for where that text
1467should be displayed. This means that <tt>pdftohtml</tt> may
1468incorrectly guess the order that the text fragments are supposed to
1469occur in. For example, for text that is in two or more columns, the text
1470may be extracted as the first sentence of each column, then the second
1471sentence of each column, and so on. In this case, the extracted text
1472is still usable for indexing purposes, but should not be displayed.
1473
1474In this case, a format statement should be added to the <tt>collect.cfg</tt>
1475file to provide a link to the original PDF file but not to the extracted
1476text, such as:
1477<center>
1478<small><tt>format SearchVList "&lt;td valign=top&gt;[srclink][srcicon][/srclink]&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;[srclink][Title][/srclink]&lt;/td&gt;"</tt></small>
1479</center>
1480</li>
1481
1482<li>Because of the way that images are embedded in PDF files,
1483<tt>pdftohtml</tt> occasionally extracts an image upside-down, or mirrored.
1484This appears to be a bug in the program.</li>
1485
1486</ol>
1487}
1488
1489#######################################################################
1490
1491package cvs
1492
1493_cvstitle_ {CVS}
1494
1495_cvscheckout_ {
1496To check out the Greenstone source code from our server do the following:
1497}
1498
1499_cvsupdate_ {
1500Once you have the code you may update it at any time by changing to the
1501gsdl directory and typing:
1502}
1503
1504_notice_ {Note about versions}
1505
1506_recentversion_ {Make sure that your version of CVS is 1.11 or later. Some
1507operating systems (including Mac OS X and Solaris) have older versions
1508that can not connect to a non-default port. This causes an error such
1509the following:}
1510
1511_download_ {You can download pre-compiled packages of recent versions of CVS
1512from <a href="http://ftp.cvshome.org/release/binary/">http://ftp.cvshome.org/release/binary/</a>.}
1513#######################################################################
1514
1515package colcfg
1516
1517_t246_ {Collection Configuration File Samples}
1518
1519_t247_ {collect.cfg file}
1520
1521_t248_ {Acronym Extraction Demo}
1522
1523_t249_ {Agricultural Information Modules}
1524
1525_t250_ {Arabic Collection}
1526
1527_t251_ {Bibliotheque pour le Developpement}
1528
1529_t252_ {Chinese Demonstration collection}
1530
1531_t253_ {Collection on Critical Global Issues (2nd edition)}
1532
1533_t254_ {Colt Bibliography}
1534
1535_t255_ {Computer Science Bibliographies}
1536
1537_t256_ {The Computists' Weekly}
1538
1539_t257_ {Crystal}
1540
1541_t258_ {FAO document repository}
1542
1543_t259_ {FAO on the Internet (1998)}
1544
1545_t260_ {Food and Nutrition Library 1.1}
1546
1547_t261_ {Greenstone Archives}
1548
1549_t262_ {HCI Bibliography}
1550
1551_t263_ {Humanity Development Library}
1552
1553_t264_ {Indigenous Peoples}
1554
1555_t265_ {Kiwi Aircraft Images}
1556
1557_t266_ {Language Extraction Demo}
1558
1559_t267_ {Medical and Health Library}
1560
1561_t268_ {MSWord and PDF Demonstration}
1562
1563_t269_ {Music Videos}
1564
1565_t270_ {OAI Plugin demo}
1566
1567_t271_ {Poverty Alleviation}
1568
1569_t272_ {Project Gutenberg}
1570
1571_t273_ {TidBITS}
1572
1573_t274_ {Virtual Disaster Library}
1574
1575_t275_ {Women's History}
1576
1577_t276_ {World Environment Library}
1578
1579_t277_ {Youth Oral History}
1580
1581
1582#######################################################################
1583
1584package intn
1585
1586_t278_ {Internationalizing Greenstone}
1587
1588_t279_ {There are several different levels of Greenstone language support.}
1589
1590_t280_ {Core languages}
1591
1592_t281_ {
1593English, French, Spanish, and Russian are Greenstone core languages. For
1594these there is a full translation, including interface, documentation,
1595sample collections, installation instructions. They have been produced in
1596conjunction with UNESCO and are distributed with all versions of
1597Greenstone, including the CD-ROM version. They are updated whenever the
1598CD-ROM is re-issued (so far, approximately once a year).
1599}
1600
1601_t282_ {Full translation}
1602
1603_t283_ {
1604Full translations of Greenstone include the interface and all the
1605documentation. Translating the documentation is a big job, and so far,
1606apart from the UNESCO-supported CD-ROM project, there is only one example
1607-- Kazakh. We would like to encourage more people to do full translations.
1608}
1609
1610_t284_ {Maintained interface-only translation}
1611
1612_t285_ {
1613&quot;Maintained&quot; translations include the language interface and a
1614designated person who updates it. The Greenstone interface has been
1615translated into many languages. However, the system is growing and language
1616interfaces become out-dated as new features are added to the software. For
1617each language, we are hoping to find a volunteer who undertakes to
1618periodically maintain the interface for that language.
1619}
1620
1621_t286_ {Unmaintained interface-only translation}
1622
1623_t287_ {
1624The interface comes in two parts: a &quot;core&quot; part that contains the
1625basic digital library interface, and an &quot;auxiliary&quot; part that
1626that concerns functionality that is generally only used by the library
1627maintainer (e.g. the Administration pages and the Collector). Many language
1628interfaces just contain the core part; since the core changes relatively
1629slowly these are mostly fairly complete. However, some unmaintained
1630translations are rather out of date.
1631}
1632
1633_t288_ {In progress}
1634
1635_t289_ {For some languages, the translation process is still in progress.}
1636
1637_t290_ {
1638When you download Greenstone, the core language interfaces (English,
1639French, Spanish and Russian) come automatically. The other languages are
1640provided in a separate package which can be <a
1641href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12123&release_id=173035">downloaded</a>
1642and installed as required. This makes the downloads smaller, and for those
1643who do not need all the languages Greenstone is slightly smaller and
1644faster.
1645}
1646
1647_tnzdl_ {NZDL Project}
1648
1649_tunesco_ {UNESCO}
1650
1651_t291_ {Here is a summary of the languages currently supported:}
1652
1653_t292_ {Language}
1654
1655_t293_ {Status}
1656
1657_t294_ {Maintainer}
1658
1659_t302_ {core}
1660
1661_t313_ {full}
1662
1663_t300_ {maintained}
1664
1665_t296_ {unmaintained}
1666
1667_t298_ {in progress}
1668
1669_t295_ {Arabic}
1670
1671_armenian_ {Armenian}
1672
1673_lng5_ {Bosnian}
1674
1675_t297_ {Chinese}
1676
1677_lng4_ {Croatian}
1678
1679_t299_ {Czech}
1680
1681_t301_ {English}
1682
1683_t303_ {Dutch}
1684
1685_t304_ {French}
1686
1687_lng1_ {Finnish}
1688
1689_t305_ {Galician}
1690
1691_t306_ {German}
1692
1693_t307_ {Greek}
1694
1695_t308_ {Hebrew}
1696
1697_lng2_ {Hindi}
1698
1699_t309_ {Indonesian}
1700
1701_t310_ {Italian}
1702
1703_t311_ {Japanese}
1704
1705_lng3_ {Kannada}
1706
1707_t312_ {Kazakh}
1708
1709_t314_ {Maori}
1710
1711_t315_ {Nepalese}
1712
1713_t316_ {Portuguese (Brazil)}
1714
1715_t317_ {Portuguese (Portugal)}
1716
1717_t318_ {Russian}
1718
1719_t319_ {Serbian}
1720
1721_t320_ {Spanish}
1722
1723_t321_ {Thai}
1724
1725_t322_ {Turkish}
1726
1727_t323_ {Ukrainian}
1728
1729_t324_ {Vietnamese}
1730
1731_t325_ {Information for language maintainers}
1732
1733_t326_ {
1734There are two methods for working with Greenstone language interface (apart
1735from editing the macro files directly, which is not recommended).
1736}
1737
1738_t327_ {Spreadsheet}
1739
1740_t328_ {
1741We send you an Excel spreadsheet that contains all the English text
1742strings, with empty cells for the translation. You fill it in and return
1743it, and we install it in Greenstone. This method is probably the best for
1744large-scale translation, but requires Microsoft software.
1745}
1746
1747_t329_ {Greenstone Translator's Interface}
1748
1749_t330_ {
1750The Greenstone translator's interface is a Web tool that presents the
1751English text strings needing translation, and provides boxes for entering
1752the translated text. Once submitted, translations are stored in the
1753appropriate language file. The system automatically determines which text
1754strings need translating or updating, and can easily be used to update a
1755language interface.
1756}
1757
1758_t331_ {
1759Generally it is best to use the spreadsheet to create the basic interface
1760and the translation interface to fine tune or update it in the future. In
1761either case you need a username and password, which we supply to designated
1762Greenstone language maintainers. If you are interested, you can play with
1763an open version of the system by logging into <a
1764href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/translate/library">this page</a> with
1765username "guest" and no password, though if you do this you cannot save the
1766results.
1767}
1768
1769_t332_ {
1770To register as a designated Greenstone language maintainer, please send a
1771request to Michael Dewsnip (<a
1772href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>). As
1773soon as you receive your password please change it by going to <a
1774href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/translate/library">this page</a>,
1775choosing the administration option, clicking the "change password" option
1776on the left hand side, and following the instructions.
1777}
1778
1779_t333_ {
1780As soon as you log in, the front page of the translator's interface is
1781presented to you. Read the instructions and start translating! You don't
1782have to translate all the strings in one session -- you can stop and
1783continue work later. There is a link at the bottom of each page under the
1784"submit" button that allows you to view a Greenstone site in the language
1785you have chosen, and see your translations take effect. (However, the
1786images are not yet created as you go.)
1787}
1788
1789_t334_ {Language-dependent text in Greenstone}
1790
1791_t335_ {
1792For your information and interest, the language-dependent text in
1793Greenstone comes in these places. We do not attempt to translate the
1794comments that appear in program code, scripts, or configuration files. Our
1795guideline is that non-programming users doing standard things with
1796Greenstone should be able to work entirely in their own language.
1797}
1798
1799_t336_ {User interface}
1800
1801_t337_ {Core}
1802
1803_t338_ {Text used in the basic digital library interface for Greenstone}
1804
1805_t339_ {On-line help for the basic digital library interface}
1806
1807_t340_ {Auxiliary}
1808
1809_t341_ {Text that is generally directed at the library maintainer (e.g. the
1810Administration pages and the Collector)}
1811
1812_t342_ {Text used in the Greenstone Librarian Interface}
1813
1814_t343_ {Text in scripts for running (and compiling) the GLI}
1815
1816_t344_ {The gli.txt help file}
1817
1818_t345_ {On-line help for the GLI}
1819
1820_t346_ {Collection building}
1821
1822_t347_ {Option descriptions and error messages in perl scripts, and plugins
1823and classifiers}
1824
1825_t348_ {Images}
1826
1827_t349_ {Text strings that appear in images that form part of the user
1828interface}
1829
1830_t350_ {Documentation}
1831
1832_t351_ {Manuals}
1833
1834_t352_ {Installer's guide (35 pp.)}
1835
1836_t353_ {User's guide (50 pp.)}
1837
1838_t354_ {Developer's guide (115 pp.)}
1839
1840_t355_ {From Paper to Collection (45 pp.)}
1841
1842_t356_ {Installation}
1843
1844_t357_ {Unix}
1845
1846_t358_ {Text in install.sh and setup.bash.}
1847
1848_t359_ {We do not translate text strings that appear during the
1849configuration process (./configure), because people installing programs on
1850Unix usually do so using English.}
1851
1852_t360_ {Windows}
1853
1854_t361_ {Text in the InstallShield installer used for Greenstone, and
1855setup.bat.}
1856
1857_t362_ {InstallShield comes with many different languages, and we are not
1858responsible for these translations.}
1859
1860_t363_ {Both}
1861
1862_t364_ {The install.txt file}
1863
1864_t365_ {Licence}
1865
1866_t366_ {
1867The GNU General Public Licence is written in English, and official
1868translations into other languages do not exist. However, an unofficial
1869translation is appended to the licence text that is presented during the
1870installation process.
1871}
1872
1873_t367_ {Sample Collections}
1874
1875_t368_ {Collection configuration files for sample collections supplied with
1876Greenstone.}
1877
1878
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