Greenstone tutorial exercises (June 2006)
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If you are working from a Greenstone CD-ROM, sample files for these exercises are in the folder sample_files; otherwise they can be downloaded from sourceforge.
The text sometimes uses Windows terminology, but the exercises work equally well on other systems if you make appropriate changes to the pathnames.
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Working with a pre-packaged collection (UNAIDS)
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Installing a pre-packaged Greenstone collection
Browsing around a Greenstone collection
Searching within a Greenstone collection
Leaving the Greenstone digital library
Exercise: Use the UNAIDS collection to answer these questions
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Working with a pre-packaged collection (Digital Libraries in Education)
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Installing a pre-packaged collection
Browsing around a Greenstone collection
Exercise: Read the Help page; then answer these questions
Exercise: Use the How to build a digital library collection to answer these questions.
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Installing Greenstone
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Installing Greenstone on a Windows system
Installing ImageMagick on a Windows system
Installing Ghostscript on a Windows system
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Updating a Greenstone installation
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Removing Greenstone from a Windows system
Reinstalling Greenstone on a Windows system
Amalgamating different Greenstone collections
Installing the Greenstone language pack (2.62 and earlier)
Enabling other languages (2.63 and later)
Installing the Classic Interface Pack (2.63 and later)
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Building a small collection of HTML files
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Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface
Starting a new collection
Adding documents to the collection
Building the collection
Viewing the extracted metadata
Setting up a shortcut in the Librarian interface
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A simple image collection
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Adding a metadata set to the collection
Adding Title and Description metadata
Change Format Features to display new metadata
Changing the size of image thumbnails
Adding a browsing classifier based on Description metadata
Creating a searchable index based on Description metadata
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A collection of Word and PDF files
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Viewing the extracted metadata
Manually adding metadata to documents in a collection
Collection design; branding a collection with an image
Document plugins
Search indexes
Browsing classifiers
Classifying on multiple metadata
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Formatting the Word and PDF collection
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Tidying up the default format statement
Linking to Greenstone version or original version of documents
Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
Displaying multi-valued metadata
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Enhanced PDF handling
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Modes in the Librarian Interface
Splitting PDFs into sections
Using image format
Using process_exp to control document processing (advanced)
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Enhanced Word document handling
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Using Windows native scripting
Modes in the Librarian Interface
Defining styles
Removing pre-defined table of contents
Extracting document properties as metadata
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Exporting a collection to CD-ROM/DVD
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A large collection of HTML files—Tudor
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Extracting more metadata from the HTML
Blocking the stray images
Looking at different views of the files in the Gather and Enrich panels
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Enhanced collection of HTML files—Tudor
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Adding hierarchically-structured metadata and a Hierarchy classifier
Adding a hierarchical phrase browser (PHIND)
Partitioning the full-text index based on metadata values
Controlling the building process
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Formatting the HTML collection—Tudor
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Section tagging for HTML documents
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Downloading files from the web
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Pointing to documents on the web
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Bibliographic collection
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Adding fielded searching
Exploding the database
Reformatting the collection to use the exploded metadata
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CDS/ISIS collection
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Customization: macro files and stylesheets
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Changing the background and header images
Changing the colour of the navigation bar, page title and page text
Adding a footer
Make your own Greenstone home page
Collection specific customisation
How to determine which images to replace (advanced)
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Looking at a multimedia collection
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Building a multimedia collection
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Manually correcting metadata
Browsing by media type
Suppressing dummy text
Using AZCompactList rather than AZList
Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
Adding a Phind phrase browser
Branding the collection with an image
Using UnknownPlug
Cleaning up a title browser using regular expressions
Using non-standard macro files
Using different icons for different media types
Changing the collection's background image
Building a full-size version of the collection
Adding an image collage browser
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Scanned image collection
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Grouping documents by series title and displaying dates within each group
Displaying scanned images and suppressing dummy text
Searching at page level
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Advanced scanned image collection
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Adding another newspaper to the collection
XML based item file
Using process_exp to control document processing
Switching between images and text
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Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection
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Tweaking the presentation with format statements
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Downloading over OAI
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Use METS as Greenstone's Internal Representation
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Moving a collection from DSpace to Greenstone
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Adding indexing and browsing capabilities to match DSpace's
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Moving a collection from Greenstone to DSpace
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Using Greenstone from the command line
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Editing metadata sets
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Running GEMS
Creating a new metadata set
Adding a new element to a metadata set