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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_textimagepref_ {Preferences page}
10
11_textimagedocs_ {Docs}
12_textimagedownload_ {Download}
13_textimageexamples_ {Examples}
14
15# These are not translated because the pages themselves are not translated
16_textimagefaq_ {FAQ}
17_textimagesupport_ {Support}
18
19
20#------------------------------------------------------------
21# icons
22#------------------------------------------------------------
23
24## "PREFERENCES" ## top_nav_button ## cpref ##
25_httpiconcprefof_ {_httpimg_/cprefof.gif}
26_httpiconcprefon_ {_httpimg_/cprefon.gif}
27
28
29## "docs" ## nav_bar_button ## tdocs ##
30_httpicontdocsof_ {_httpimg_/docsof.gif}
31_httpicontdocson_ {_httpimg_/docson.gif}
32
33## "download" ## nav_bar_button ## tdl ##
34_httpicontdlof_ {_httpimg_/dlof.gif}
35_httpicontdlon_ {_httpimg_/dlon.gif}
36
37## "examples" ## nav_bar_button ## texmpl ##
38_httpicontexmplof_ {_httpimg_/exmplof.gif}
39_httpicontexmplon_ {_httpimg_/exmplon.gif}
40
41# These are not translated because the pages themselves are not translated
42
43## "faq" ## nav_bar_button ## tfaq ##
44_httpicontfaqof_ {_httpimg_/faqof.gif}
45_httpicontfaqon_ {_httpimg_/faqon.gif}
46
47## "support" ## nav_bar_button ## tsup ##
48_httpicontsupof_ {_httpimg_/supof.gif}
49_httpicontsupon_ {_httpimg_/supon.gif}
50
51
52#######################################################################
53
54package home
55
56_t1_ {About Greenstone}
57
58_t2_ {
59Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital
60library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and
61publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the
62<b>New Zealand Digital Library Project</b> at the <b>University of
63Waikato</b>, and developed and distributed in cooperation with
64<b>UNESCO</b> and the <b>Human Info NGO</b>. It is <b>open-source,
65multilingual</b> software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public
66License.
67}
68
69_namur_{
70The Greenstone project is the seventh recipient of the biennial
71<a href="http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/IFIP/award.html">Namur award</a>, which
72recognizes recipients for raising awareness internationally of the social
73implications of information and communication technologies.
74}
75
76_t3_ {
77UNESCO is running regional training workshops on the use of Greenstone.
78In 2003 they were in
79<a href="_httppagex_(report)">Bangalore, India</a> in August; Dakar,
80Senegal in September, and <a href="_httppagex_(reportSuva)">Suva, Fiji</a> in November.
81}
82_t3.save_ {<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.
83Please feel free to use it for learning -- or teaching! -- Greenstone.
84}
85_t4_ {
86<a
87href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone/">Download</a> Greenstone v2.50.
88The Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI),
89an easy-to-use frontend to Greenstone's collection-building
90functionality, has been extensively user tested and debugged.
91If you haven't already tried it, now is a great
92time to do so (and if you ran into problems before, please try this new version).
93Greenstone 2.50 also includes the new (and already very popular) PagedImgPlug plugin for
94processing sequences of page images, a new classifier that displays a
95collage of the images in a collection, provision for incremental updates
96of Greenstone in the future, and many other bug fixes and improvements.
97}
98
99_t5_ {
100One of the trickier parts of using Greenstone is coming up with a
101configuration file for your collection. To help learn how to do it,
102several fully-documented example collections have been placed at <a
103href="http://nzdl.org">nzdl.org</a> which explain, on the collection home page, just how they have been put together.
104}
105
106_t6_ {
107The complete Greenstone interface, and all documentation, is available in
108<b>English</b>, <b>French</b>, <b>Spanish</b>, <b>Russian</b> and
109<b>Kazakh</b>. Greenstone also has interfaces in many <a
110href="_httppagex_(intn)">other languages</a>. We are looking for <a
111href="_httppagex_(intn)#maintainers">volunteers</a> to add new language
112interfaces and help maintain existing ones.
113}
114
115_t7_ {
116The aim of the software is to empower users, particularly in universities,
117libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own
118digital libraries. Digital libraries are radically reforming how
119information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO's partner communities
120and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the
121world, and particularly in developing countries. We hope that this
122software will encourage the effective deployment of digital libraries to
123share information and place it in the public domain. Further information
124can be found in the book <a href="http://www.nzdl.org/howto">How to build a
125digital library</a>, authored by two of the group's project members.
126}
127
128_t8_ {
129Also, the collect.cfg files for many of the collections at <a
130href="http://www.nzdl.org">www.nzdl.org</a> have been made available <a
131href="_httppagex_(colcfg)">here</a>.
132}
133
134_t9_ {
135This software is developed and distributed as an international cooperative
136effort established in August 2000 among three parties.
137}
138
139_t10_ {
140New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato
141}
142
143_t11_ {
144Greenstone software grew out of this project, and this initiative has been
145endorsed by the Communication Sub-Commission of the New Zealand National
146Commission for UNESCO as part of New Zealand's contribution to UNESCO's
147programme.
148}
149
150_t12_ {
151United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
152}
153
154_t13_ {
155The dissemination of educational, scientific and cultural information
156throughout the world, and particularly its availability in developing
157countries, is central to UNESCO's goals as pursued within its
158intergovernmental Information for All Programme, and appropriate,
159accessible information and communication technology is seen as an important
160tool in this context.
161}
162
163_t14_ {
164The Human Info NGO, based in Antwerp, Belgium
165}
166
167_t15_ {
168This project works with UN agencies and other NGOs, and has established a
169worldwide reputation for digitizing documentation of interest to human
170development and making it widely available, free of charge to developing
171nations and on a cost-recovery basis to others.
172}
173
174_t16_ {
175If you download Greenstone and install it with standard demonstration
176collections, or if you install it from the Greenstone CD-ROM, it will look
177exactly like <a
178href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/democols/library">this</a>.
179}
180
181
182#######################################################################
183
184package download
185
186_t18_ {Download Greenstone}
187
188_t19_ {
189Greenstone is open-source software, distributed under the terms of the <a
190href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
191License</a>. It runs on Windows and Unix, and both source code and binaries
192are available for download. It is fully documented in English, French,
193Spanish and Russian.
194}
195
196_t20_ {
197Select the Greenstone distribution you require from the list below. Each
198distribution provides a complete interface in English, French, Spanish and
199Russian.
200}
201
202_t21_ {
203Each distribution also includes the "Greenstone Librarian
204Interface", a graphical tool for building digital libraries. It gives
205you access to Greenstone's functionality from an easy-to-use 'point and
206click' interface. To use this tool you will need a suitable Java Run-time
207Environment, which you can download via <a
208href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/">here</a> -- the latest version is currently 1.4.2 (then choose the JRE, not the SDK).
209}
210
211_t22_ {Windows distribution}
212
213_t23_ {
214This is the distribution you want if you're going to run Greenstone under
215any 32 bit Windows environment (that is, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP etc.).
216}
217
218_t24_ {
219Note that Greenstone will also run on 16 bit Windows (that is, Windows
2203.1/3.11). The installer program used by this distribution will not work on
221these versions of Windows however. Please <a
222href="_httppagex_(support)">contact us</a> if you need a version of
223Greenstone for 16 bit Windows.
224}
225
226_t25_ {
227Using this distribution you may either install the "local
228library", the "web library", or install and compile the
229source code (click <a href="_httppagex_(faq-installing)#1">here</a> for a
230description of the differences between the "local library" and
231the "web library"). You will be asked which form of Greenstone
232you want during the installation process.
233}
234
235_t26_ {
236This distribution includes everything you need to run Greenstone (including
237a pre-built demonstration collection) and to build new Greenstone
238collections. Some functionality is not included however, mostly in an
239attempt to keep the distribution as small as possible. See <a
240href="#packages">below</a> for details on how to get this missing
241functionality.
242}
243
244_t27_ {
245This distribution uses a standard Windows installer program, simply
246download the file and double-click it to install (see the <a
247href="_httpguide_(Install,en)">Installer's Guide</a> for more detailed
248installation instructions).
249}
250
251_t28_ {Unix distribution}
252
253_t29_ {
254This is the recommended distribution if you're installing Greenstone on any
255form of Unix.
256}
257
258_t30_ {
259This distribution comes with statically linked linux binaries. However, it
260also contains the Greenstone source code for compiling on other forms of
261Unix (or on linux if you prefer not to use the provided binaries).
262}
263
264_t31_ {
265This distribution includes everything you need to run Greenstone (including
266a pre-built demonstration collection) and to build new Greenstone
267collections. Some functionality is not included however, mostly in an
268attempt to keep the distribution as small as possible. See <a
269href="#packages">below</a> for details on how to get this missing
270functionality.
271}
272
273_t32_ {
274To install this distribution, extract the gzipped tar archive and run the
275<i>Install.sh</i> shell script from within the <i>gsdl-X.XX-unix/Unix</i>
276directory (see the <a href="_httpguide_(Install,en)">Installer's Guide</a> for
277more detailed installation instructions).
278}
279
280_t33_ {Mac OS X distribution}
281
282_t34_ {
283This distribution contains dynamically linked binaries for Mac OS X running
284on PowerPC platforms.
285}
286
287_t35_ {
288This distribution has been tested on Mac OS X 10.2.6 and 10.3.2. It
289includes the pre-built binaries and also includes the demonstration
290collection, pre-built. This distribution also includes the Greenstone
291Librarian Interface for building collections.
292}
293
294_t36_ {Source only distribution}
295
296_t37_ {
297This distribution contains the Greenstone source code along with the same
298demonstration collection as the distributions above (although the
299collection is not pre-built in this distribution).
300}
301
302_t38_ {
303This distribution does not have an automated installation procedure
304(running <i>Install.sh</i> will not work). Unless you're sure you know what
305you're doing you probably want one of the distributions above, both of
306which also contain the Greenstone source. Note that you can obtain an
307up-to-date version of the Greenstone source code at any time by using <a
308href="_httppagex_(cvs)">cvs</a>.
309}
310
311_t39_ {
312The following extra packages may be downloaded and installed along with an
313existing Greenstone installation to add functionality that was left out of
314the distributions above.
315}
316
317_t40_ {Export to CD-ROM package}
318
319_t41_ {
320This package enables the "export to CD-ROM" function from within
321Greenstone's Collector.
322}
323
324_t42_ {
325To install, simply download the file (it will work on both Windows and Unix
326and any version of Greenstone above 2.34) and extract the zip archive into
327the gsdl\\bin\\windows directory of your existing Greenstone installation.
328}
329
330_t43_ {
331The following utilities have been developed to be used along with
332Greenstone.
333}
334
335_t44_ {The Organizer}
336
337_t45_ {
338The Organizer is a Windows application useful for automatically generating
339many of the configuration files (metadata.xml, sub.txt etc.) required by
340complex Greenstone collections.
341}
342
343_t46_ {
344To install, simply download and double-click the self-extracting executable
345file.
346}
347
348
349#######################################################################
350
351package examples
352
353_t47_ {Examples of Greenstone in Action}
354
355_t48_ {New Zealand Digital Library Project}
356
357_t49_ {
358A demonstration site set up by the developers of Greenstone, the New
359Zealand Digital Library Project. This site contains many collections,
360ranging from humanitarian information to computer science technical reports
361to demonstration collections of Chinese and Arabic documents.
362}
363
364_t50_ {Russian Greenstone Library}
365
366_t51_ {
367A Greenstone site containing several collections in the Russian
368language. This site was set up by a regional government department in the
369Mari El Republic of the Russian Federation.
370}
371
372_t52_ {Project Gutenberg}
373
374_t53_ {
375An on-going project to produce and distribute free electronic editions of
376literature, Project Gutenberg now contains more than 3,700 titles from
377Shakespeare to Dickens to the Bronte sisters. This site, maintained by
378Ibiblio, one of the original Gutenberg mirror sites, uses Greenstone to
379make the entire Gutenberg collection available in a fully searchable form.
380}
381
382_t54_ {University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart}
383
384_t55_ {
385Hochschule der Medien - an "Information and Media" digital
386library created by the University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany.
387}
388
389_t56_ {Gresham College Archive}
390
391_t57_ {
392A digital library created at Gresham College, London, England.
393}
394
395_t58_ {Center for the Study of Digital Libraries}
396
397_t59_ {
398Texas A&M University - A digital libraries research site containing
399prototypical Greenstone collections with an emphasis on Digital Floras.
400}
401
402_t60_ {Peking University Digital Library}
403
404_t61_ {
405Two experimental collections created at Peking University.
406}
407
408_t62_ {Music Information Retrieval Research}
409
410_t63_ {
411Virtual home of music information retrieval research.
412}
413
414_t64_ {Photograph Album}
415
416_t65_ {
417A collection of photographs taken by <a
418href="mailto:[email protected]">Gordon Paynter</a>.
419}
420
421_t66_ {Washington Research Library Consortium Special Collections}
422
423_t67_ {
424Digital material from the special collections of the eight universities of
425WRLC in Washington, D.C., USA.
426}
427
428_t68_ {Archives of Indian Labour}
429
430_t69_ {
431A collaborative project between the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute and
432the Association of Indian Labour Historians. The Archives of Indian Labour
433are dedicated to preserving and making accessible the fast depleting
434documents on the Indian working class.
435}
436
437_t70_ {NCSI Demonstration Collections}
438
439_t71_ {
440Demonstration collections created by students and staff at the National
441Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
442India. Many of these collections include content in Kannada and Hindi.
443}
444
445_t72_ {New York Botanical Garden}
446
447_t73_ {
448The rare book digitization project of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the
449New York Botanical Garden.
450}
451
452_t74_ {Lehigh University Digital Bridges Collection}
453
454_t75_ {
455A collection containing thirty books about bridges, all of which were
456published between 1811 and 1899. The collection was created at Lehigh
457University, Pennsylvania and features a heavily customized user interface.
458}
459
460_t76_ {Chopin Early Editions}
461
462_t77_ {
463A collection of digital images of early printed editions of musical
464compositions by Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Chopin. This collection was created
465by the University of Chicago Library and, once completed, will include its
466entire collection of over 400 Chopin early editions. The greenstone
467collection configuration file for this collection has also been made
468available and can be downloaded <a
469href="http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/gsdl/collect/chopin/etc/collect.cfg">here</a>.
470}
471
472_t78_ {Slavonski Brod Public Library}
473
474_t79_ {
475The pilot project of digitization of local studies collection in Slavonski
476Brod Public Library, Croatia.
477}
478
479_ex1t_ {Mirabilia Vicomercati}
480
481_ex1d_ {
482Mirabilia 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.
483}
484
485_ex2t_ {Illinois Wesleyan University Argus Digital Collection}
486
487_ex2d_ {
488Illinois 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.
489}
490
491_ex3t_ {Human Rights in Argentina}
492
493_ex3d_ {
494This 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.
495}
496
497_ex4t_ {Auburn University Libraries Digital Library}
498
499_ex4d_ {
500This 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.
501}
502
503_ex5t_ {State Library of Tasmania Sheet Music Collection}
504
505_ex5d_ {
506This 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.
507}
508
509_ex6t_ {Indian Institute of Science Publications Database}
510
511_ex6d_ {
512Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, Karnataka, India is a premier institution of advanced research and teaching, with more than 2000 active researchers working in almost all frontier areas of science and technology. Started in 1909 by J.N.Tata, the Institute publishes about 2,000 publications including journal articles, conference publications, patents, reports, books, book chapters every year, according to this study. An effort is made here to compile these publications from several identified sources, remove duplicate records, standardise the metadata details. The database is web enabled using Greenstone.
513}
514
515
516#######################################################################
517
518package docs
519
520_t80_ {Greenstone Documentation}
521
522_t81_ {Manuals}
523
524_t82_ {
525The following Greenstone manuals are available in PDF format for
526download. They're available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and
527Kazakh.
528}
529
530_installersguide_ {Installer's Guide}
531
532_t83_ {english}
533
534_t84_ {spanish}
535
536_t85_ {french}
537
538_t86_ {russian}
539
540_t87_ {kazakh}
541
542_t88_ {
543Describes in detail the Greenstone installation process. Note that the
544<i>Installer's Guide</i> assumes that Greenstone is being installed from a
545CD-ROM distribution. The instructions should be adapted in the obvious way
546when installing from a web download.
547}
548
549_usersguide_ {User's Guide}
550
551_t90_ {
552General details on using Greenstone collections, the Collector web
553interface for building new collections, and Greenstone's administrative
554facilities.
555}
556
557_t92_ {sorry, no kazakh}
558
559_developersguide_ {Developer's Guide}
560
561_t94_ {
562A more detailed description of Greenstone's collection building process,
563including building collections from the command line or DOS prompt. Also a
564description of the structure of the Greenstone runtime system.
565}
566
567_t95_ {From Paper to Collection}
568
569_t96_ {
570A document describing the entire process of creating a digital library
571collection from paper documents. This includes the scanning and OCR process
572and the use of the "Organizer".
573}
574
575_t97_ {Inside Greenstone Collections}
576
577_t98_ {english(HTML)}
578
579_t99_ {english(PDF)}
580
581_t100_ {
582One of the trickier parts of using Greenstone is coming up with a
583configuration file for your collection. To help learn how to do it, this
584document presents, and explains, the configuration files for a few actual
585Greenstone collections, and also gives an example of how Greenstone's
586appearance can be customized. (Note, this document is intended to be used
587with Greenstone version 2.40 and higher.)
588}
589
590_t101_ {MG/MG++}
591
592_t102_ {
593For information about the underlying indexing and retrieval systems used by
594Greenstone, please go <a href="http://www.nzdl.org/html/mg.html">here</a>
595for MG, or download the <a href="_httpdocsdir_/mgpp_user.pdf">MGPP user
596guide</a>.
597}
598
599_t103_ {Mailing Lists}
600
601_t104_ {
602There are two mailing lists intended primarily for discussions about the
603Greenstone digital library software. Active users of Greenstone should
604consider joining one or both of these lists and contributing to the
605discussions.
606}
607
608_t105_ {Greenstone User's List}
609
610_t106_ {
611This list is for general Greenstone discussions. To send a message to this
612list, address it to <a
613href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. There
614is an archive of previous messages to this list at <a
615href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=gsarch">www.nzdl.org</a>.
616}
617
618_t107_ {Greenstone Developer's List}
619
620_t108_ {
621This list is for more technical discussions by people developing or
622modifying Greenstone. To send a message to this list, address it to <a
623href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
624}
625
626_t369_ {User Supplied Documentation}
627
628_t370_ {Customizing the Greenstone User Interface}
629
630_t371_ {
631An illustrated guide to customizing the Greenstone user interface. Written
632by Allison Zhang of the Washington Research Library Consortium
633}
634
635#######################################################################
636
637package support
638
639_t109_ {Greenstone Support}
640
641_t110_ {
642Before asking for help, please read the <a
643href="_httppagex_(faq)">frequently asked questions</a> list.
644}
645
646_t111_ {
647For Greenstone technical support please consider joining one of the <a
648href="_httppagex_(docs)#mailing-lists">Greenstone mailing lists</a>.
649}
650
651_t112_ {
652Alternatively, fill in the form below and click the "submit"
653button to submit a query to the Greenstone support staff. Please fill in
654the form as fully as possible to aid our staff in giving the best possible
655service.
656}
657
658_t113_ {PERSONAL INFORMATION}
659
660_t114_ {Name}
661
662_t115_ {E-mail address}
663
664_t116_ {SYSTEM INFORMATION}
665
666_t117_ {Operating System}
667
668_t118_ {Windows 95}
669
670_t119_ {Windows 98}
671
672_t120_ {Windows ME}
673
674_t121_ {Windows NT 4}
675
676_t122_ {Windows 2000}
677
678_t123_ {Windows XP}
679
680_t124_ {Windows 3.11}
681
682_t125_ {Windows 3.1}
683
684_t126_ {Linux}
685
686_t127_ {Other (please specify below)}
687
688_t128_ {Other OS}
689
690_t129_ {CPU (type and speed)}
691
692_t130_ {Memory (RAM) in MB}
693
694_t131_ {Web browser}
695
696_t132_ {Netscape 4}
697
698_t133_ {Netscape 4.5}
699
700_t134_ {Netscape 6}
701
702_t135_ {Mozilla}
703
704_t136_ {Internet Explorer 4}
705
706_t137_ {Internet Explorer 5}
707
708_t138_ {Internet Explorer 6}
709
710_t139_ {Other web browser}
711
712_t140_ {Was your browser provided by your internet service provider?}
713
714_t141_ {no}
715
716_t142_ {yes}
717
718_t143_ {don't know}
719
720_t144_ {Is your browser configured to use a proxy?}
721
722_t145_ {Web server}
723
724_t146_ {not applicable}
725
726_t147_ {Apache 1.3}
727
728_t148_ {Apache 2.0}
729
730_t149_ {Microsoft IIS 4.0}
731
732_t150_ {Microsoft IIS 5.0}
733
734_t151_ {Microsoft PWS}
735
736_t152_ {Other server}
737
738_t153_ {GREENSTONE INFORMATION}
739
740_t154_ {Version}
741
742_t155_ {CD-ROM distribution}
743
744_t156_ {Installation type}
745
746_t157_ {local library}
747
748_t158_ {web library}
749
750_t159_ {PROBLEM DESCRIPTION}
751
752_t160_ {Problem type}
753
754_t161_ {question}
755
756_t162_ {problem/error}
757
758_t163_ {suggested enhancement}
759
760_t164_ {other}
761
762_t165_ {Can the problem be reproduced at will?}
763
764_t166_ {Short description}
765
766_t167_ {Long description}
767
768_t168_ {
769(If you are reporting a problem, please go into as much detail as possible.
770Make sure you describe all steps leading up to the problem and include any
771relevant URLs.)
772}
773
774
775#######################################################################
776
777package faq
778
779_greenstonefaq_ {Greenstone FAQ}
780
781_headinggeneral_ {General Information}
782
783_t171_ {What is Greenstone?}
784
785_t172_ {How is Greenstone licensed?}
786
787_t173_ {What platforms will Greenstone run on?}
788
789_t174_ {Are there any mailing lists concerned with Greenstone?}
790
791_t175_ {Are the mailing lists archived anywhere?}
792
793_t176_ {How do I contribute to Greenstone?}
794
795_headingobtaining_ {Obtaining Greenstone}
796
797_t178_ {Where do I get Greenstone from?}
798
799_t179_ {Are there binary distributions of Greenstone available?}
800
801_t180_ {Is Greenstone available on CD-ROM?}
802
803_t181_ {Is the Greenstone source code available via CVS?}
804
805_headinginstalling_ {Installing Greenstone}
806
807_t183_ {How do I compile Greenstone from a source or CVS distribution?}
808
809_t184_ {What is the difference between Greenstone's <i>local library</i> and <i>web library</i>?}
810
811_headingrunning_ {Running Greenstone}
812
813_t186_ {OK, I've installed Greenstone. Now how do I make it go?}
814
815_t187_ {What web browser do I need to view Greenstone collections?}
816
817_t188_ {When I start the Windows local library there are two buttons in the
818dialog box, "Enter Library" and "Restricted
819Version". They both seem to do the same thing, what's the difference?}
820
821_t189_ {So when should I use the "Restricted Version" of the local library?}
822
823_t190_ {When I start the Windows local library my computer asks me to dial
824up my Internet Service Provider. Do I really need to be online to run
825Greenstone?}
826
827_t191_ {I'm trying to use the Windows local library. My web browser is
828starting up as expected but the Greenstone home page never gets loaded or gives an error message. What's wrong?}
829
830_t192_ {Where can I get more Greenstone collections?}
831
832_t193_ {When I attempt to access certain parts of Greenstone I'm asked for
833a username and password. What do I enter?}
834
835_t194_ {When I use the <i>large query box</i> function I occassionally get
836a <i>Not Found</i> error.}
837
838_headingbuilding_ {Building Greenstone Collections}
839
840_tfaqbuildglititle_ {What is the "Greenstone Librarian Interface"}
841
842_t196_ {What is "the Collector"?}
843
844_t197_ {How do I build a collection from the command line or DOS prompt?}
845
846_t198_ {I built a new Greenstone collection on my Windows
847machine. Everything appeared to work fine while building, however when I
848tried to view the collection some of the documents contained no
849text. Sometimes Greenstone appeared to crash completely. What have I done
850wrong?}
851
852_t199_ {Why won't the Collector's "export to CD-ROM" function work?}
853
854_t200_ {I'm trying to use the Collector on Windows 2000 but it's running
855extremely slowly. Is this normal?}
856
857_t201_ {What is "the Organizer"?}
858
859_t202_ {Where do I get the Organizer?}
860
861_t203_ {I'm attempting to build a collection with the collector but it
862keeps failing with an error. What am I doing wrong?}
863
864_t204_ {Where can I find some example collect.cfg configuration files?}
865
866_t205_ {How can I build my collection using MGPP?}
867
868_tfaqbuild11title_ {I've added a new type of classification to my collection. How do I create and add the navigation bar images?}
869
870_tfaqbuildexpattitle_ {How do I fix XML::Parser errors during import.pl?}
871
872_headingplugins_ {More About Plugins}
873
874_tfaqplugins1title_ {What metadata is available for each plugin?}
875
876_tfaqplugins2title_ {I'm having problems with my PDF files! What's wrong?}
877
878_t207_ {FAQ Main Page}
879
880_t372_ {Show entire FAQ on a single page}
881
882_t373_ {Show FAQ on multiple pages}
883
884#######################################################################
885
886package faqgen
887
888_t208_ {
889Greenstone is a suite of software which has the ability to serve digital
890library collections and build new collections. It provides a new way of
891organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM.
892}
893
894_t209_ {
895Greenstone is open-source software, distributed under the terms of the <a
896href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>.
897}
898
899_t210_ {
900Greenstone has been tested on Windows 3.1/3.11/95/98/Me/NT/2000, most
901distributions of GNU/Linux, Darwin (Mac OS X), Solaris, and FreeBSD. It
902should in fact work on any Windows or Unix system. If you use a system
903other than those mentioned and you find Greenstone doesn't run, please <a
904href="_httppagex_(support)">contact</a> us.
905<p>Please note that the downloadable Windows distribution of Greenstone
906comes with an installer that will not work on 16 bit Windows. If you need
907to use Greenstone on Windows 3.1/3.11 please <a
908href="_httppagex_(support)">contact</a> us.</p>
909}
910
911_t211_ {
912There are two Greenstone mailing lists. You can subscribe to them from the
913<a href="_httppagex_(docs)#mailing-lists">documentation</a> page.
914}
915
916_t212_ {
917The most popular mailing list ([email protected]) is
918archived as a Greenstone collection at <a
919href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=gsarch">www.nzdl.org</a>.
920Note that this collection is updated only sporadically so may not always be
921completely up to date.
922}
923
924_t213_ {
925We welcome contributions or improvements to the Greenstone software!
926<br />Before you send in any contribution, you first need to make sure that
927your changes are compatible with the latest snapshop of the Greenstone
928source code. To get the latest code you'll need to use CVS (see <a
929href="_httppagex_(cvs)">here</a> for details).
930<br />You should then send the modified files, along with details of the
931modifications you've made, to <a
932href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
933
934<p>Before beginning work, you should announce what you're doing on the <a
935href="mailto:[email protected]">greenstone developer's list</a>
936to tell us what you plan to do and get some feedback.</p>
937}
938
939
940#######################################################################
941
942package faqob
943
944_t215_ {
945From the greenstone.org <a href="_httppagex_(download)">download</a> page.
946}
947
948_t216_ {
949Yes. At present there are binary distributions for 32 bit Windows, PowerPC
950Mac OS X, and i386 linux. They can be downloaded from the <a
951href="_httppagex_(download)">download</a> page.
952}
953
954_t217_ {
955While some version 2.37 and 2.38 CD-ROMs have been produced they're not
956currently being made widely available. You are encouraged to download the
957latest release of Greenstone from the <a
958href="_httppagex_(download)">download</a> page. If your internet connection
959is such that downloading Greenstone isn't possible please <a
960href="_httppagex_(support)">contact</a> us and we may be able to arrange
961for a CD-ROM to be sent out.
962}
963
964_t218_ {
965Yes, see our <a href="_httppagex_(cvs)">CVS page</a> for details.
966}
967
968
969#######################################################################
970
971package faqinst
972
973_t220_ {
974See our <a href="_httpdocsdir_/compiling.html">compiling page</a>.
975}
976
977_t221_ {
978Firstly, the <i>local library</i> is only available if you're running
979Greenstone under Windows. It's not yet available on Unix.
980
981<p>The major difference between the two is that the <i>local library</i>
982contains it's own built-in webserver. The <i>web library</i> however,
983requires an external webserver like Apache or Microsoft IIS. This makes the
984<i>local library</i> much easier to install and configure than the web
985library.</p>
986
987<p>For this reason, it's recommended that Windows users install the
988<i>local library</i> unless they're sure that they need the <i>web
989library</i>. Even if you think you might need the <i>web library</i>, try
990installing the <i>local library</i> first. You can always uninstall it
991later and install the <i>web library</i> if you then decide you need
992it.</p>
993
994<p>A situation where the <i>web library</i> may be preferable is if you
995plan to serve your Greenstone collections as a full-time service on the
996web. In this case you'll probably want the added stability that running the
997<i>web library</i> in conjunction with an external webserver can
998provide.</p>
999
1000<p>Please note that the <i>local library</i> is quite capable of serving
1001Greenstone collections over a local area network or the web (despite its
1002rather misleading name).</p>
1003}
1004
1005
1006#######################################################################
1007
1008package faqrun
1009
1010_t223_ {
1011If you're using the Windows <i>local library</i> you should be able to
1012simply select "Greenstone Digital Library" from within the
1013programs in your <i>start</i> menu.
1014
1015<p>If you're using the <i>web library</i> things are a little less obvious
1016however. First make sure your webserver is configured correctly and is
1017running (see the <a href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone Installer's
1018Guide</a> and your webserver's documentation for details). You can then
1019simply open your web browser and point it at the URL of Greenstone's
1020library executable. This is dependant on the way you configured Greenstone
1021and your webserver. Typically it might be something like
1022http://localhost/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.exe.</p>
1023}
1024
1025_t224_ {
1026Greenstone relies on a web browser that supports tables, javascript, and in
1027some places, frames. Any reasonably modern browser will do. Examples are
1028Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, Netscape 4, and Mozilla. Newer releases of
1029all these browsers will also work.
1030
1031<p>If you find that your favourite web browser does not work with
1032Greenstone, please <a href="_httppagex_(support)">contact us</a>.</p>
1033
1034<p>Note that there is an exception to the rule that any modern browser will
1035do when running Greenstone. That is when you're using the restricted
1036version of the Windows local library when you must use Netscape. See the
1037discussion below on the differences between the "Restricted
1038Version" and the standard "Enter Library" version of the
1039local library for details.</p>
1040}
1041
1042_t225_ {
1043The webserver built into the local library uses the networking software
1044built into your Windows operating system in order to function. If your
1045computer has never been connected to a network this networking software may
1046not be installed however. For this reason Greenstone comes with some
1047networking software of it's own that it will use if it can't find any
1048installed on your computer.
1049
1050<p>When you click the "Enter Library" button, Greenstone first
1051checks to see if your computer has it's own networking software. If it
1052does, it starts up using that, if not it starts up using it's own
1053networking software.</p>
1054
1055<p>When you click the "Restricted Version" button, Greenstone
1056doesn't bother checking your system for networking software, it just goes
1057ahead and uses it's own.</p>
1058
1059<p>The catch is that there are several limitations with using the
1060Greenstone supplied networking software. The most important limitations are
1061that the local library won't be accessible from the network if run in this
1062way (that is, it really will be "local" to the machine on which
1063it's running) and that it must use a Netscape web browser. Using your
1064computer's built-in networking software is therefore the prefered
1065option.</p>
1066}
1067
1068_t226_ {
1069Since Greenstone will automatically use it's own networking software if it
1070can't find any installed on your computer it should not normally be
1071necessary to run the "Restricted Version" explicitly.
1072
1073<p>Times when it may be necessary are.</p>
1074<ul>
1075<li>If your computer's networking software has been installed incorrectly.</li>
1076<li>If Windows keeps attempting to dial up your internet service provider
1077when you click the "Enter Library" button.</li>
1078</ul>
1079}
1080
1081_t227_ {
1082No you don't need to be online. This is caused by the webserver built into
1083Greenstone's local library sending a message to your computer's networking
1084software to make sure it's functioning correctly. On many Windows systems
1085this causes the familiar dial up dialog box to appear. In most situations
1086you can simply cancel the dialog box and (if required) press your browser's
1087<i>reload</i> button to continue.
1088
1089<p>If this does not solve the problem, try starting the local library by
1090clicking the "Restricted Version" button rather than the
1091"Enter Library" button. See the discussion above on the
1092differences between the standard and restricted versions of the local
1093library for further details.</p>
1094}
1095
1096_t228_ {
1097<ol>
1098<li>Check your web browser's internet proxy settings and turn proxies off (use
1099<i>Edit preferences</i> on Netscape or <i>Internet options</i> on
1100Explorer).</li>
1101
1102<li>If Internet Explorer gives a message saying "The page cannot be
1103displayed" and "Cannot find server or DNS error" at the bottom of the
1104page, check in your network settings that your computer's name is set
1105up correctly. For example, if there is a DNS suffix entered in your
1106TCP/IP properties (in the Control Panel), make sure that your host
1107name and suffix are correct for your computer. If the server is running
1108correctly, you should be able to connect by visiting
1109<a href="http://127.0.0.1/">http://127.0.0.1/</a> in a web browser on the
1110same machine that the local library is running on.</li>
1111
1112</ol>
1113}
1114
1115_t229_ {
1116Collections like those at <a href="http://www.nzdl.org">www.nzdl.org</a>
1117will soon be made available for download.
1118}
1119
1120_t230_ {
1121The initial username required here is <i>admin</i>.
1122
1123<p>If you installed Greenstone using the InstallShield installer on Windows
1124or the Install.sh script on Unix you should have been asked to set a
1125password during the installation procedure.</p>
1126
1127<p>If you didn't, don't worry, the password defaults to being
1128<i>admin</i>.</p>
1129
1130<p>So if you don't know what to enter you should try username =
1131<i>admin</i>, password = <i>admin</i>.<p>
1132}
1133
1134_t231_ {
1135This may be caused by the URL becoming too long for your web
1136browser. Because Greenstone currently stores all state information in the
1137URL, if you do a search for a long phrase the URL can become very
1138long. Different browser's on different platforms have different maximum URL
1139lengths but in general it seems that Netscape can handle longer URLs than
1140can Microsoft Internet Explorer.
1141
1142<p>There is very little you can do to avoid this problem with the way
1143Greenstone is currently implemented (aside from not searching for long
1144phrases). Future versions of Greenstone may store some state information on
1145the server rather than in the URL but this has yet to be implemented.</p>
1146}
1147
1148
1149#######################################################################
1150
1151package faqbuild
1152
1153_tfaqbuildglibody_ {
1154The Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) is a graphical tool for building new
1155collections, altering or
1156deleting existing collections, and exporting existing collections to
1157stand-alone CD-ROMs. It allows you to import or assign metadata, and
1158has an interactive collection design module. Launch the GLI under Windows
1159by selecting <i>Greenstone Digital Library</i> from the <i>Programs</i>
1160section of the <i>Start</i> menu and choosing <i>Librarian Interface</i>.
1161Under Linux, run <i>gli.sh</i> from the <i>gsdl/gli</i> directory.
1162For details on using the Librarian Interface see the
1163<a href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone User's Guide</a>.
1164}
1165
1166_t233_ {
1167The Collector is a web interface for collection building, altering and
1168exporting. It predates the Librarian Interface and for most
1169practical purposes, the Librarian Interface should be used instead.
1170To begin using the Collector, click the "The
1171Collector" button on your Greenstone home page. For further details on
1172using the Collector see the <a href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone User's
1173Guide</a>.
1174}
1175
1176_t234_ {
1177It's occasionally preferable to build your Greenstone collections from the
1178command line rather than from the Collector. This allows you greater
1179control over how your new collection turns out. See the <a
1180href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone Developer's Guide</a> for detailed step
1181by step instructions on building collections from the command line.
1182}
1183
1184_t235_ {
1185Are you running Norton Anti-Virus? There are some incompatibilities between
1186Norton and the Greenstone collection building process that cause
1187unpredictable things to happen if you build your collection while Norton is
1188running. Try disabling Norton and rebuilding the collection.
1189
1190<p>If you do not have Norton or disabling Norton does not solve the problem
1191please <a href="_httppagex_(support)">contact us</a> for further help.</p>
1192}
1193
1194_t236_ {
1195If you downloaded Greenstone from the web you will not have all the
1196components required to make the "export to CD-ROM" function
1197work. These extra components have been made available in a separate
1198download which you can get from the <a
1199href="_httppagex_(download)#packages">download</a> page.
1200}
1201
1202_t237_ {
1203Are you using a Netscape web browser with the local library? If so, try
1204using Internet Explorer instead. There are some socket connection problems
1205that show up on Windows 2000 when using Netscape.
1206}
1207
1208_t238_ {
1209The Organizer (also called the "Collection Organizer") is a
1210Windows utility used for automatically generating some of the configuration
1211files (metadata.xml, sub.txt etc.) used by complex Greenstone collections.
1212}
1213
1214_t239_ {
1215From the <a href="_httppagex_(download)#utilities">download</a> page.
1216}
1217
1218_t240_ {
1219There are several reasons that the collector might fail to build a
1220collection and the error messages it produces are not always very helpful.
1221
1222<p>If you changed the default configuration during the <i>configure
1223collection</i> stage you'll need to make sure the changes were valid. For
1224example, if you added a new <i>classify</i> or <i>plugin</i> line you'll
1225need to make sure that the classifier and/or plugin names and arguments are
1226all correct. If they're not the collector will fail. A good test is to
1227build your collection without changing the configuration. If it builds ok
1228with the default configuration but fails after you change the configuration
1229you'll need to look closely at the changes you're making.</p>
1230
1231<p>Another good thing to do if having problems with the collector is to
1232build your collection from the command line instead. You'll get much more
1233feedback to help debug problems when building in this way. For details on
1234how to build a collection from the command line see the <a
1235href="_httppagex_(docs)">Greenstone developer's guide</a>.</p>
1236}
1237
1238_t241_ {
1239The collect.cfg files for many of the collections at <a
1240href="http://www.nzdl.org">www.nzdl.org</a> have been made available <a
1241href="_httppagex_(colcfg)">here</a>.
1242}
1243
1244_t242_ {
1245The <a href="_httpdocsdir_/mgpp_user.pdf">MGPP user manual</a> gives some
1246instructions.
1247}
1248
1249_tfaqbuild11body_ {
1250To 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.
1251<p>
1252These 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.
1253<p>
1254<i>base.dm:</i>
1255<br>
1256<br>\_Countrieswidth\_ \{\_widthcountx\_ \}
1257
1258<br>\_imageCountries\_ \{\_gsimage\_(\_httpbrowseCountries\_,\_httpicontcountof\_,\_httpicontcounton\_,countries,\_textimageCountries\_)\}
1259<br>\_icontabCountriesgreen\_ \{&lt;img
1260src="\_httpicontcountgr\_" width=\_widthtcountx\_ border=0&gt;\}
1261<br>\_icontabCountriesgreen\_[v=1] \{\_texticontabCountriesgreen\_ \}
1262<p>
1263<i>document.dm:</i>
1264<br>
1265<br>\_textCountriespage\_ \{\_texticonhcount\_ \}
1266
1267<br>\_iconCountriespage\_ \{&lt;img src="\_httpiconhcount\_" width="\_widthhcount\_"
1268height="\_heighthcount\_"&gt;\}
1269<br>\_iconCountriespage\_ [v=1] \{&lt;h2&gt;\_texticonhcount\_&lt;/h2&gt;\}
1270
1271<p>
1272<i>english.dm:</i>
1273<br>
1274<br>\_textimageCountries\_ \{Browse by countries\}
1275<br>\_texticontabCountriesgreen\_ \{Countries\}
1276<br>\_texticonhcount\_ \{Countries\}
1277<br>\_textCountriesshort\_ \{access publications by country\}
1278<br>\_textCountrieslong\_ \{&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;i&gt;access publications by country&lt;/i&gt; by
1279pressing the &lt;i&gt;countries&lt;/i&gt; button. This brings up a list of countries. \}
1280<br>
1281<br>## "countries" ## nav\_bar\_button ## tcount ##
1282<br>\_httpicontcountgr\_ \{\_httpimg\_/tcountgr.gif\}
1283<br>\_httpicontcountof\_ \{\_httpimg\_/tcountof.gif\}
1284<br>\_httpicontcounton\_ \{\_httpimg\_/tcounton.gif\}
1285<br>\_widthtcountx\_ \{87\}
1286
1287<br>## "countries" ## green_title ## h_count ##
1288<br>\_httpiconhcount\_ \{\_httpimg\_/h\_count.gif\}
1289<br>\_widthhcount\_ \{200\}
1290<br>\_heighthcount\_ \{57\}
1291
1292
1293<p>
1294The 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.
1295<i>h_count.gif</i> is the title image.
1296
1297<p>These images can be generated by copying the two ## blocks from above into a temp file and running translate.pl on it eg.
1298
1299<br>translate.pl -language_symbol en temp.dm
1300
1301<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.
1302<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.
1303}
1304
1305_tfaqbuildexpatbody_ {
1306Our prebuilt Linux and Mac OS X Greenstone distributions are built on machines using Perl 5.6, and these distributions contain a few binary perl modules. These cause problems if you are using a recent version of perl like 5.8 or 5.8.1 (you can type "perl -v" from the command line to see the version).
1307<p>
1308On the Mac, our distribution contains modules for both perl 5.6 and 5.8 and the correct one should (hopefully) be installed.
1309<p>
1310A typical error message during import.pl would be:
1311<p>
1312Uncaught exception from user code: Can't load '/home/httpd/gsdl/perllib/cpan/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so' for module XML::Parser::Expat: /home/httpd/gsdl/perllib/cpan/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so: undefined symbol: PL_sv_undef at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 229. at /home/httpd/gsdl/perllib/cpan/XML/Parser.pm line 14
1313<p>
1314To remedy this, you need to remove the "gsdl/perllib/cpan/XML" and "gsdl/perllib/cpan/auto" directories. Then you need to install the perl XML::Parser natively for your system, and get Greenstone to use this instead.
1315<p>
1316On redhat or mandrake, install the .rpm named "perl-XML-Parser", on debian, install the "libxml-parser-perl" package. For other Linuxes, use your distribution's package, or you can get it from <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~msergeant/XML-Parser-2.34/">http://search.cpan.org/~msergeant/XML-Parser-2.34/</a>.
1317<p>
1318You may also need to get Expat, available from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/</a>.
1319
1320}
1321#######################################################################
1322
1323package faqplugins
1324
1325
1326# base puts in surrounding <p> and </p>, so skip first and last ones
1327#
1328_metadata_ {
1329
1330"Default" means that the metadata fields will be automatically assigned (or
1331extracted if possible), while the "Available fields" lists other items
1332of metadata that the plugin may be able to assign based on any arguments
1333given to that plugin in the <tt>collect.cfg</tt> file.
1334All plugins are derived from BasPlug, and have following metadata fields:
1335
1336<table border="1">
1337<tr>
1338 <th> </th>
1339 <th> Default fields </th>
1340 <th> Available fields </th>
1341</tr>
1342<tr>
1343 <td> BasPlug </td>
1344 <td> Language, Encoding, Source </td>
1345 <td> FirstNNNN, kea, Acronym </td>
1346</tr>
1347</table>
1348</p>
1349
1350<p>
1351In addition, many plugins have additional fields available:
1352<table border="1">
1353
1354<tr>
1355 <th> Plugin name </th>
1356 <th> Default fields </th>
1357 <th> Available fields </th>
1358</tr>
1359
1360<tr>
1361 <td> BibTexPlug </td>
1362 <td> Title, Creator, Abstract, Author, Booktitle, Chapter, Copyright, Date,
1363 Edition, Editor, EntryType Journal, Keywords, Month, Note, Number,
1364 Pages, Publisher, PublisherAddress, Volume, Year </td>
1365 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1366</tr>
1367
1368<tr>
1369 <td> DBPlug </td>
1370 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1371 <td> (arbitrary metadata field names based on Database configuration file)
1372 </td>
1373</tr>
1374
1375<tr>
1376 <td> EMAILPlug </td>
1377 <td> Date, DateText, From, FromAddr, FromName, Headers, Subject,
1378 Title (based on subject, from, and date), To
1379 </td>
1380 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1381</tr>
1382
1383<tr>
1384 <td> ExcelPlug </td>
1385 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1386 <td> (all fields as in HTMLPlug) </td>
1387</tr>
1388
1389<tr>
1390 <td> HTMLPlug </td>
1391 <td> Title, URL </td>
1392 <td> Author, Creator, Email (others as found in the <tt>-metadata_fields</tt> option) </td>
1393</tr>
1394
1395<tr>
1396 <td> ImagePlug </td>
1397 <td> Image, ImageHeight, ImageSize, ImageType, ImageWidth, ScreenHeight,
1398 screenicon, ScreenSize, ScreenType, ScreenWidth, Source, srclink,
1399 srcicon, Thumb, ThumbHeight, ThumbType, ThumbWidth </td>
1400 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1401</tr>
1402
1403<tr>
1404 <td> IndexPlug </td>
1405 <td> as in the <tt>index.txt</tt> file </td>
1406 <td> (use metadata.xml files instead of using this plugin) </td>
1407</tr>
1408
1409<tr>
1410 <td> MARCPlug </td>
1411 <td> Creator, Description, MarcIdentifier, MarcSource, URL, Publisher,
1412 Relation, Rights, Subject, Title, Type </td>
1413 <td> (Metadata fields as in the <tt>marctodc.txt</tt> file) </td>
1414</tr>
1415
1416<tr>
1417 <td> OAIPlug </td>
1418 <td> URL, (all metadata in <tt>.oai</tt> markup file) </td>
1419 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1420</tr>
1421
1422<tr>
1423 <td> PDFPlug </td>
1424 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1425 <td> (all fields in HTMLPlug) </td>
1426</tr>
1427
1428<tr>
1429 <td> PPTPlug </td>
1430 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1431 <td> (all fields in HTMLPlug) </td>
1432</tr>
1433
1434<tr>
1435 <td> PSPlug </td>
1436 <td> Title </td>
1437 <td> Date, Pages, (all fields in TextPlug) </td>
1438</tr>
1439
1440<tr>
1441 <td> ReferPlug </td>
1442 <td> Abstract, BookConfOnly, Booktitle, Copyright, Creator, Date, Editor,
1443 Keywords, Journal, JournalsOnly, Number, Pages, Publisher,
1444 Publisheraddr, Report, Title, Volume </td>
1445 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1446</tr>
1447
1448<tr>
1449 <td> RTFPlug </td>
1450 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1451 <td> (all fields in HTMLPlug) </td>
1452</tr>
1453
1454<tr>
1455 <td> SRCPlug </td>
1456 <td> Title, filename, includes, class, classdecl </td>
1457 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1458</tr>
1459
1460<tr>
1461 <td> TEXTPlug </td>
1462 <td> Title </td>
1463 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1464</tr>
1465
1466<tr>
1467 <td> UnknownPlug </td>
1468 <td> (as given in the <tt>-assoc_field</tt> plugin argument) </td>
1469 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1470</tr>
1471
1472<tr>
1473 <td> WordPlug </td>
1474 <td>&nbsp;</td>
1475 <td> (all fields in HTMLPlug) </td>
1476</tr>
1477
1478</table>
1479</p>
1480
1481<p>See section two of the _docs:developersguide_ for information about
1482options to plugins, or run the <tt>pluginfo.pl</tt> command on the
1483plugin name after setting up your environment for Greenstone.
1484(For example, "<tt>perl&nbsp;-S&nbsp;pluginfo.pl&nbsp;BasPlug</tt>".)
1485</p>
1486
1487<p>
1488In addition, every document can be manually assigned arbitrary metadata
1489fields and values through use of <tt>metadata.xml</tt> files, as discussed
1490in the manual.
1491}
1492
1493# base puts in surrounding <p> and </p>, so skip first and last ones
1494#
1495_pdfproblems_ {
1496PDF is a "page description language". This means that the document contains
1497objects and commands such as "draw this text here" and "draw this
1498image here".
1499</p>
1500
1501<p>
1502Greenstone uses an external program called "<tt>pdftohtml</tt>" to
1503extract text out of PDF files. Sometimes, there is no text that can be
1504extracted. This often depends on how the PDF was created.
1505
1506<ol>
1507<li>Adobe Acrobat Writer can be used to create PDFs from paper
1508documents that are scanned in by a scanner. In this case, the PDF file
1509contains images of text, rather than computer-readable text. Therefore,
1510<tt>pdftohtml</tt> cannot find any text to extract.</li>
1511
1512<li>Some programs (such as older versions of <tt>GNU ghostscript</tt>,
1513which is used by <tt>ps2pdf</tt> on Unix computers) sometimes create
1514"bitmap fonts", which means that every character in the document is
1515really an image rather than a computer readable letter. The
1516<tt>LaTeX</tt> type-setting program sometimes does this when the
1517"Computer Modern Roman" font is used.</li>
1518
1519<li>Certain characters and character combinations may be extracted incorrectly,
1520depending on the program that generated the PDF file. For example, "ligatures"
1521such as "fi", "fl", "ff" and "ffl" are often rendered using a special glyph
1522rather than as individual characters, and this information may be lost in
1523the textual representation. Also, some PDF generating programs may not
1524correctly encode accented characters. For example, to draw a lowercase "u"
1525with an umlaut accent, LaTeX draws a "u" and then draws an umlaut accent over
1526it. This means that <tt>pdftohtml</tt> will extract two separate characters
1527('š' and 'u') rather than a single accented character (Ì).</li>
1528
1529<li>PDF contains pieces of text, and coordinates for where that text
1530should be displayed. This means that <tt>pdftohtml</tt> may
1531incorrectly guess the order that the text fragments are supposed to
1532occur in. For example, for text that is in two or more columns, the text
1533may be extracted as the first sentence of each column, then the second
1534sentence of each column, and so on. In this case, the extracted text
1535is still usable for indexing purposes, but should not be displayed.
1536
1537In this case, a format statement should be added to the <tt>collect.cfg</tt>
1538file to provide a link to the original PDF file but not to the extracted
1539text, such as:
1540<center>
1541<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>
1542</center>
1543</li>
1544
1545<li>Because of the way that images are embedded in PDF files,
1546<tt>pdftohtml</tt> occasionally extracts an image upside-down, or mirrored.
1547This appears to be a bug in the program.</li>
1548
1549</ol>
1550}
1551
1552#######################################################################
1553
1554package cvs
1555
1556_cvstitle_ {CVS}
1557
1558_cvscheckout_ {
1559To check out the Greenstone source code from our server do the following:
1560}
1561
1562_cvsglicheckout_ {
1563To check out the Greenstone Librarian Interface source code, change to the gsdl directory and do the following:
1564}
1565
1566_cvsupdate_ {
1567Once you have the code you may update it at any time by changing to the
1568gsdl directory and typing:
1569}
1570
1571_notice_ {Note about versions}
1572
1573_recentversion_ {Make sure that your version of CVS is 1.11 or later. Some
1574operating systems (including Mac OS X and Solaris) have older versions
1575that can not connect to a non-default port. This causes an error such
1576the following:}
1577
1578_download_ {You can download pre-compiled packages of recent versions of CVS
1579from <a href="http://ftp.cvshome.org/release/binary/">http://ftp.cvshome.org/release/binary/</a>.}
1580#######################################################################
1581
1582package colcfg
1583
1584_t246_ {Collection Configuration File Samples}
1585
1586_t247_ {collect.cfg file}
1587
1588_t248_ {Acronym Extraction Demo}
1589
1590_t249_ {Agricultural Information Modules}
1591
1592_t250_ {Arabic Collection}
1593
1594_t251_ {Bibliotheque pour le Developpement}
1595
1596_t252_ {Chinese Demonstration collection}
1597
1598_t253_ {Collection on Critical Global Issues (2nd edition)}
1599
1600_t254_ {Colt Bibliography}
1601
1602_t255_ {Computer Science Bibliographies}
1603
1604_t256_ {The Computists' Weekly}
1605
1606_t257_ {Crystal}
1607
1608_t258_ {FAO document repository}
1609
1610_t259_ {FAO on the Internet (1998)}
1611
1612_t260_ {Food and Nutrition Library 1.1}
1613
1614_t261_ {Greenstone Archives}
1615
1616_t262_ {HCI Bibliography}
1617
1618_t263_ {Humanity Development Library}
1619
1620_t264_ {Indigenous Peoples}
1621
1622_t265_ {Kiwi Aircraft Images}
1623
1624_t266_ {Language Extraction Demo}
1625
1626_t267_ {Medical and Health Library}
1627
1628_t268_ {MSWord and PDF Demonstration}
1629
1630_t269_ {Music Videos}
1631
1632_t270_ {OAI Plugin demo}
1633
1634_t271_ {Poverty Alleviation}
1635
1636_t272_ {Project Gutenberg}
1637
1638_t273_ {TidBITS}
1639
1640_t274_ {Virtual Disaster Library}
1641
1642_t275_ {Women's History}
1643
1644_t276_ {World Environment Library}
1645
1646_t277_ {Youth Oral History}
1647
1648
1649#######################################################################
1650
1651package intn
1652
1653_t278_ {Internationalizing Greenstone}
1654
1655_t279_ {There are several different levels of Greenstone language support.}
1656
1657_t280_ {Core languages}
1658
1659_t281_ {
1660English, French, Spanish, and Russian are Greenstone core languages. For
1661these there is a full translation, including interface, documentation,
1662sample collections, installation instructions. They have been produced in
1663conjunction with UNESCO and are distributed with all versions of
1664Greenstone, including the CD-ROM version. They are updated whenever the
1665CD-ROM is re-issued (so far, approximately once a year).
1666}
1667
1668_t282_ {Full translation}
1669
1670_t283_ {
1671Full translations of Greenstone include the interface and all the
1672documentation. Translating the documentation is a big job, and so far,
1673apart from the UNESCO-supported CD-ROM project, there is only one example
1674-- Kazakh. We would like to encourage more people to do full translations.
1675}
1676
1677_t284_ {Maintained interface-only translation}
1678
1679_t285_ {
1680"Maintained" translations include the language interface and a
1681designated person who updates it. The Greenstone interface has been
1682translated into many languages. However, the system is growing and language
1683interfaces become out-dated as new features are added to the software. For
1684each language, we are hoping to find a volunteer who undertakes to
1685periodically maintain the interface for that language.
1686}
1687
1688_t286_ {Unmaintained interface-only translation}
1689
1690_t287_ {
1691The interface comes in two parts: a "core" part that contains the
1692basic digital library interface, and an "auxiliary" part that
1693concerns functionality that is generally only used by the library
1694maintainer (e.g. the Administration pages and the Collector). Many language
1695interfaces just contain the core part; since the core changes relatively
1696slowly these are mostly fairly complete. However, some unmaintained
1697translations are rather out of date.
1698}
1699
1700_t288_ {In progress}
1701
1702_t289_ {For some languages, the translation process is still in progress.}
1703
1704_t290_ {
1705When you download Greenstone, the core language interfaces (English,
1706French, Spanish and Russian) come automatically. The other languages are
1707provided in a separate package which can be <a
1708href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12123&release_id=173035">downloaded</a>
1709and installed as required. This makes the downloads smaller, and for those
1710who do not need all the languages Greenstone is slightly smaller and
1711faster.
1712}
1713
1714_tnzdl_ {NZDL Project}
1715
1716_tunesco_ {UNESCO}
1717
1718_t291_ {Here is a summary of the languages currently supported:}
1719
1720_t292_ {Language}
1721
1722_t293_ {Status}
1723
1724_t294_ {Maintainer}
1725
1726_t302_ {core}
1727
1728_t313_ {full}
1729
1730_t300_ {maintained}
1731
1732_t296_ {unmaintained}
1733
1734_t298_ {in progress}
1735
1736_t295_ {Arabic}
1737
1738_armenian_ {Armenian}
1739
1740_lng5_ {Bosnian}
1741
1742_t297_ {Chinese}
1743
1744_lng4_ {Croatian}
1745
1746_t299_ {Czech}
1747
1748_t301_ {English}
1749
1750_t303_ {Dutch}
1751
1752_farsi_ {Farsi}
1753
1754_t304_ {French}
1755
1756_lng1_ {Finnish}
1757
1758_t305_ {Galician}
1759
1760_t306_ {German}
1761
1762_t307_ {Greek}
1763
1764_t308_ {Hebrew}
1765
1766_lng2_ {Hindi}
1767
1768_t309_ {Indonesian}
1769
1770_t310_ {Italian}
1771
1772_t311_ {Japanese}
1773
1774_lng3_ {Kannada}
1775
1776_t312_ {Kazakh}
1777
1778_t314_ {Maori}
1779
1780_marathi_ {Marathi}
1781
1782_t315_ {Nepalese}
1783
1784_t316_ {Portuguese (Brazil)}
1785
1786_t317_ {Portuguese (Portugal)}
1787
1788_t318_ {Russian}
1789
1790_t319_ {Serbian}
1791
1792_t320_ {Spanish}
1793
1794_t321_ {Thai}
1795
1796_t322_ {Turkish}
1797
1798_t323_ {Ukrainian}
1799
1800_t324_ {Vietnamese}
1801
1802_t325_ {Information for language maintainers}
1803
1804_t326_ {
1805There are two methods for working with Greenstone language interface (apart
1806from editing the macro files directly, which is not recommended).
1807}
1808
1809_t327_ {Spreadsheet}
1810
1811_t328_ {
1812We send you an Excel spreadsheet that contains all the English text
1813strings, with empty cells for the translation. You fill it in and return
1814it, and we install it in Greenstone. This method is probably the best for
1815large-scale translation, but requires Microsoft software.
1816}
1817
1818_t329_ {Greenstone Translator's Interface}
1819
1820_t330_ {
1821The Greenstone translator's interface is a Web tool that presents the
1822English text strings needing translation, and provides boxes for entering
1823the translated text. Once submitted, translations are stored in the
1824appropriate language file. The system automatically determines which text
1825strings need translating or updating, and can easily be used to update a
1826language interface.
1827}
1828
1829_t331_ {
1830Generally it is best to use the spreadsheet to create the basic interface
1831and the translation interface to fine tune or update it in the future. In
1832either case you need a username and password, which we supply to designated
1833Greenstone language maintainers. If you are interested, you can play with
1834an open version of the system by logging into <a
1835href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/translate/library">this page</a> with
1836username "guest" and no password, though if you do this you cannot save the
1837results.
1838}
1839
1840_t332_ {
1841To register as a designated Greenstone language maintainer, please send a
1842request to Michael Dewsnip (<a
1843href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>). As
1844soon as you receive your password please change it by going to <a
1845href="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/translate/library">this page</a>,
1846choosing the administration option, clicking the "change password" option
1847on the left hand side, and following the instructions.
1848}
1849
1850_t333_ {
1851As soon as you log in, the front page of the translator's interface is
1852presented to you. Read the instructions and start translating! You don't
1853have to translate all the strings in one session -- you can stop and
1854continue work later. There is a link at the bottom of each page under the
1855"submit" button that allows you to view a Greenstone site in the language
1856you have chosen, and see your translations take effect. (However, the
1857images are not yet created as you go.)
1858}
1859
1860_t334_ {Language-dependent text in Greenstone}
1861
1862_t335_ {
1863For your information and interest, the language-dependent text in
1864Greenstone comes in these places. We do not attempt to translate the
1865comments that appear in program code, scripts, or configuration files. Our
1866guideline is that non-programming users doing standard things with
1867Greenstone should be able to work entirely in their own language.
1868}
1869
1870_t336_ {User interface}
1871
1872_t337_ {Core}
1873
1874_t338_ {Text used in the basic digital library interface for Greenstone}
1875
1876_t339_ {On-line help for the basic digital library interface}
1877
1878_t340_ {Auxiliary}
1879
1880_t341_ {Text that is generally directed at the library maintainer (e.g. the
1881Administration pages and the Collector)}
1882
1883_t342_ {Text used in the Greenstone Librarian Interface}
1884
1885_t343_ {Text in scripts for running (and compiling) the GLI}
1886
1887_t344_ {The gli.txt help file}
1888
1889_t345_ {On-line help for the GLI}
1890
1891_t346_ {Collection building}
1892
1893_t347_ {Option descriptions and error messages in perl scripts, and plugins
1894and classifiers}
1895
1896_t348_ {Images}
1897
1898_t349_ {Text strings that appear in images that form part of the user
1899interface}
1900
1901_t350_ {Documentation}
1902
1903_t351_ {Manuals}
1904
1905_t352_ {Installer's guide (35 pp.)}
1906
1907_t353_ {User's guide (50 pp.)}
1908
1909_t354_ {Developer's guide (115 pp.)}
1910
1911_t355_ {From Paper to Collection (45 pp.)}
1912
1913_t356_ {Installation}
1914
1915_t357_ {Unix}
1916
1917_t358_ {Text in install.sh and setup.bash.}
1918
1919_t359_ {We do not translate text strings that appear during the
1920configuration process (./configure), because people installing programs on
1921Unix usually do so using English.}
1922
1923_t360_ {Windows}
1924
1925_t361_ {Text in the InstallShield installer used for Greenstone, and
1926setup.bat.}
1927
1928_t362_ {InstallShield comes with many different languages, and we are not
1929responsible for these translations.}
1930
1931_t363_ {Both}
1932
1933_t364_ {The install.txt file}
1934
1935_t365_ {Licence}
1936
1937_t366_ {
1938The GNU General Public Licence is written in English, and official
1939translations into other languages do not exist. However, an unofficial
1940translation is appended to the licence text that is presented during the
1941installation process.
1942}
1943
1944_t367_ {Sample Collections}
1945
1946_t368_ {Collection configuration files for sample collections supplied with
1947Greenstone.}
1948
1949
1950
1951######################################################################
1952# 'preferences' page
1953package preferences
1954######################################################################
1955
1956
1957#------------------------------------------------------------
1958# text macros
1959#------------------------------------------------------------
1960
1961_textpresentationprefs_ {Presentation preferences}
1962_textlanguage_ {Interface language:}
1963_textencoding_ {Encoding:}
1964_textformat_ {Interface format:}
1965_textgraphical_ {Graphical}
1966_texttextual_ {Textual}
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