Greenstone 2.83 tutorial exercises (May 2010)

• The tutorials below work with Greenstone 2.83 and probably 2.84, and some still cover earlier versions of Greenstone 2. Print version
• For the latest versions of the tutorials, for Greenstone 2 and 3, see the main tutorials page.
• For other old versions, including Spanish, French and Russian translations of the 2.70 version, see the Old Tutorials page.

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
• Viewing the internal links and external links
• Setting up a shortcut in the Librarian interface

A simple image 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
• Document Plugins
• Search indexes
• Browsing classifiers
• Renaming the search indexes
• 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
• Advanced 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)
• Opening PDF files with query terms highlighted

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

• Using fielded searching
• Exploding the database
• Reformatting the collection to use the exploded metadata

CDS/ISIS collection

Customization: macro files and stylesheets

• Collection specific customisation
• Changing the colour of the page title and page text
• Make your own Greenstone home page
• 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

• Downloading using the Librarian Interface
• Downloading using the command line

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

Building with different indexers

• Build and search with Lucene
• Search with Lucene
• Build and search with MGPP
• Search with MGPP
• Use wildcards in query
• A quick reference of the wildcards in MGPP

Incremental building of a collection

• The Depositor
• Enable The Depositor
• Use the Depositor to do incremental addition
• Batch addition with the Depositor