2.83 Tutorial exercises

Greenstone tutorial exercises (May 2010)

Note: The tutorials for the latest official binary can be found at Tutorial_exercises

The tutorials below work with Greenstone 2.83 and above, and some still cover earlier versions of Greenstone 2. [/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/all_tutorials.html Print version]

Translations of March 2006 version (for Greenstone 2.70): [/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/es/index.html Spanish] [/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/fr/index.html French] [/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/ru/index.html Russian]

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/unaids_cdrom.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/IITE_cdrom.htm 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.

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/install_greenstone.htm Installing Greenstone]

 * Installing Greenstone on a Windows system
 * Installing ImageMagick on a Windows system
 * Installing Ghostscript on a Windows system

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/update_greenstone_installation.htm 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)

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/small_html_collection.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/simple_image_collection.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/word_pdf_collection.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/formatting_word_pdf.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/enhanced_pdf.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/enhanced_word.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/large_html_collection.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/enhanced_html_collection.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/bibliography_collection.htm Bibliographic collection]

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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/using_macro_files.htm 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)

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/multimedia_collection_build.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/scanned_image_collection.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/advanced_scanned_image_collection.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/OAI_collection.htm Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection]

 * Tweaking the presentation with format statements

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/OAI_downloading.htm Downloading over OAI]

 * Downloading using the Librarian Interface
 * Downloading using the command line

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/dspace_to_greenstone.htm Moving a collection from DSpace to Greenstone]

 * Adding indexing and browsing capabilities to match DSpace's

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/greenstone_to_dspace.htm Moving a collection from Greenstone to DSpace]

 * Using Greenstone from the command line

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/gems.htm Editing metadata sets]

 * Running GEMS
 * Creating a new metadata set
 * Adding a new element to a metadata set

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/indexers.htm 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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/2.83/en/depositor.htm Incremental building of a collection]

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