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.

Working with a pre-packaged collection (UNAIDS)
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
Working with a pre-packaged collection (Digital Libraries in Education)
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.
Installing Greenstone
Installing Greenstone on a Windows system
Installing ImageMagick on a Windows system
Installing Ghostscript on a Windows system
Updating a Greenstone installation
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)
Building a small collection of HTML files
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
A simple image collection
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
A collection of Word and PDF files
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
Formatting the Word and PDF collection
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
Enhanced PDF handling
Modes in the Librarian Interface
Splitting PDFs into sections
Using image format
Using process_exp to control document processing (advanced)
Enhanced Word document handling
Using Windows native scripting
Modes in the Librarian Interface
Defining styles
Removing pre-defined table of contents
Extracting document properties as metadata
Exporting a collection to CD-ROM/DVD
A large collection of HTML files—Tudor
Extracting more metadata from the HTML
Blocking the stray images
Looking at different views of the files in the Gather and Enrich panels
Enhanced collection of HTML files—Tudor
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
Formatting the HTML collection—Tudor
Section tagging for HTML documents
Downloading files from the web
Pointing to documents on the web
Bibliographic collection
Adding fielded searching
Exploding the database
Reformatting the collection to use the exploded metadata
CDS/ISIS collection
Customization: macro files and stylesheets
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)
Looking at a multimedia collection
Building a multimedia collection
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
Scanned image collection
Grouping documents by series title and displaying dates within each group
Displaying scanned images and suppressing dummy text
Searching at page level
Advanced scanned image collection
Adding another newspaper to the collection
XML based item file
Using process_exp to control document processing
Switching between images and text
Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection
Tweaking the presentation with format statements
Downloading over OAI
Use METS as Greenstone's Internal Representation
Moving a collection from DSpace to Greenstone
Adding indexing and browsing capabilities to match DSpace's
Moving a collection from Greenstone to DSpace
Using Greenstone from the command line
Editing metadata sets
Running GEMS
Creating a new metadata set
Adding a new element to a metadata set