In this exercise you export a Greenstone collection in a form suitable for DSpace. It is possible to do this from the Librarian Interface's File menu, which contains an item called Export..., that allows you to export collections in different forms. However, to gain a deeper understanding of Greenstone, we perform the work by invoking a program from the Windows command-line prompt. This requires some technical skill; if you are not used to working in the command-line environment we recommend that you skip this exercise.
Using Greenstone from the command line
Exporting in Greenstone is an additive process. If you ran the export.pl command once again, the new files exported would be added—with different folder names—to those already in the export folder. For the kind of explorations we are conducting we might re-run the command several times. The -removeold option deletes files that have previously been exported.
You could equally well run the export.pl command on a different Greenstone collection and transfer the output to a DSpace installation by using DSpace's batch-import facility.