Tutorial exercises
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Greenstone tutorial exercises (July 2012)
These work with Greenstone 2.85. Print version
Translations of March 2006 version (for Greenstone 2.70): Spanish French Russian
Note:
- Some of these tutorials have been adjusted for Greenstone 3.05. They can be found at GS3 Tutorial Exercises. More to be added.
- Tutorials for Greenstone 2.83 and earlier can be found at 2.83 Tutorial Exercises
For installation and setup instructions, and for patches, refer to the 2.85 Release Notes.
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
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
Processing newer versions of PDF with PDFBox
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
Associated files: combining different versions of the same document together
Exporting a collection to CD-ROM/DVD
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
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 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
- 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
- Browsing documents by Date.
- Displaying scanned images and suppressing dummy text
- Searching at page level
- Tidying up search results
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
Setting up your Greenstone OAI Server
Connecting to an OAI server from GLI
Connecting to the Greenstone OAI server from the outside world
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 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
Incremental building of a collection
- The Depositor
- Enabling The Depositor
- Setting a user group
- Use the Depositor to do incremental addition
- Batch addition with the Depositor
