General Documentation

About Greenstone

 * [/gsdoc/others/Greenstone_history.htm A history of the Greenstone Digital Library Software.]
 * Greenstone Fact Sheet

Greenstone users

 * Building collections on a remote Greenstone server (En Español). This scheme allows users to augment and edit collections that are held on a remote Greenstone server. Users work with a modified version of the Greenstone Librarian Interface but do not need to have Greenstone running locally. Multiple users can collaborate on the same collection (though not at the same time).


 * Compiling Greenstone from a source or SVN distribution.


 * Obtaining Greenstone source code via SVN


 * Walkthrough: installing Greenstone 3 from SVN source


 * [/gsdoc/others/make-classifier-images.html Creating and adding the navigation bar images.]


 * The Plugins that Greenstone v2.61 supports


 * All about plugins


 * A basic introduction to using CSS in Greenstone.


 * Formating the output of your collection


 * All about macros


 * [/gsdoc/others/CDS-ISIS_to_DL.doc Creating digital libraries based on CDS/ISIS databases] ([/gsdoc/others/CDS-ISIS_to_DL-cor-sp.doc En Español]) John B. Rose and Pablo Morete
 * [/images/4/4e/GSDL_Beginners_Guide.pdf Building up a Digital Library with Greenstone: a Self-Instructional Guide for Beginners] K Rajasekharan and K M Nafala
 * [/images/c/cb/Customizing_GSDL.pdf Easy Ways to Customize the Display of Greenstone Pages] K Rajasekharan and K M Nafala
 * [/images/e/e9/WINISIS_to_GSDL_Guide.pdf Creating a Greenstone Digital Library with Winisis Database] K Rajasekharan and K M Nafala
 * [/images/7/78/Converting_winisis_to_GSDL.pdf Converting a Winisis database into a Greenstone digital library] K Rajasekharan and K M Nafala
 * Time taken to explode bibliography records


 * Building collections on a remote Greenstone3 server


 * Configuration, mapping, database and log files for Greenstone2 and Greenstone3


 * Transferring collections between Greenstone installations


 * [/images/7/71/Skins_Doc.pdf Greenstone 3 Interface Transformations Library: Basic Documentation] Maxime Roüast

Greenstone developers

 * [/gsdoc/others/feedback.doc User Feedback Mechanism Documentation] This is detailed documentation of the user feedback software incorporated into Greenstone under the “Send Feedback” button. It covers the design rationale and the artifact and is intended for those wishing to extend or modify the software. It is a companion document to the “Greenstone Developers’ Guide”.  If you want to know the purpose of the software, you should read the papers listed as “further reading” at the end of this report.


 * [/gsdoc/others/testplan.doc I’d like to complain: system test plan] Having developed some usability reporting software for Greenstone, it is necessary to test it. This document is broken up into two parts: a description of the software, and a description of the ideal test circumstances.  To examine the system discussed in this document go to http://nzdl2.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/dana/library; to examine the source go to /nzdl/public_html/dana/gsdl on nikau.


 * Installing Subversion in Linux


 * [/images/a/ac/Skins_Tech_Doc.pdf Greenstone 3 Skins++ Technical Documentation] Maxime Roüast

User Supplied Documentation

 * Customizing the Greenstone User Interface (Updated November 2008 to work with Greenstone 2.74/2.80) An illustrated guide to customizing the Greenstone user interface. Written by Allison Zhang of the Washington Research Library Consortium


 * Essential Strategies and Skill Sets Towards Creating Digital Libraries Using Open Source Software National Convention on Library and Information Networking (NACLIN) 2005. By M. G. Sreekumar and T. Sunitha, Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL), Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.


 * Greenstone Ubuntu HowTo (in Spanish) By Jesús Tramullas, http://greenstone.docunautica.com


 * Converting a Winisis library Catalogue into a Greenstone Digital Library Application by Rajasekharan and Nafala (2007). E-prints in Library and Information Science


 * [/gsdoc/others/DLC-WhitePaper.pdf Creating a Digital Library In Greenstone] White paper written by DL Consulting that discusses the fundamentals of creating a digital library.