3.05 Tutorial exercises

Greenstone tutorial exercises (July 2012)

These work with Greenstone 3.05. [/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/all_tutorials.html Print version]

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/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
 * Setting up a shortcut in the Librarian interface

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/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/3.05/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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/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/3.05/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/3.05/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/3.05/en/large_html_collection.htm A large collection of HTML files—Tudor]

 * Extracting more metadata from the HTML
 * Looking at different views of the files in the Gather and Enrich panels

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/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/3.05/en/bibliography_collection.htm Bibliographic collection]

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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/multimedia_collection_build.htm Building a multimedia collection]

 * Manually correcting metadata
 * Browsing by media type
 * Suppressing dummy text
 * Using AZCompactList rather than List
 * Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
 * Adding a Phind phrase browser
 * Branding the collection with an image
 * Using UnknownPlugin
 * Cleaning up a title browser using regular expressions
 * Using non-standard macro files
 * Using different icons for different media types


 * Building a full-size version of the collection

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/scanned_image_collection.htm Scanned image collection]

 * Grouping documents by series title and displaying dates within each group
 * Browsing documents by Date.
 * Searching at page level

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/advanced_scanned_image_collection.htm Advanced scanned image collection]

 * Adding another newspaper to the collection
 * XML based item file

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/OAI_collection.htm Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection]

 * Tweaking the presentation with format statements

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/GS_OAI_server.htm Setting up your Greenstone OAI Server]

 * Validating the Greenstone OAI server

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/OAI_downloading.htm Downloading over OAI]

 * Downloading using the Librarian Interface
 * Downloading using the command line
 * Building the downloaded documents in GLI

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/dspace_to_greenstone.htm Moving a collection from DSpace to Greenstone]

 * Adding indexing and browsing capabilities to match DSpace's

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/greenstone_to_dspace.htm Moving a collection from Greenstone to DSpace]

 * Using Greenstone from the command line

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/gems.htm Editing metadata sets]

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

[/gsdoc/tutorial/3.05/en/indexers.htm Building and searching with different indexers]

 * Build with Lucene
 * Search with Lucene
 * Build with MGPP
 * Search with MGPP
 * Use search mode hotkeys with query term
 * A quick reference of the search mode hotkeys in MGPP