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====== Greenstone 2.85 tutorial exercises (July 2012) ======
 
  * These work with Greenstone 2.85. [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/all_tutorials.html|Print version]]
  * For installation and setup instructions, and for patches, refer to the [[en:release:2.85_Release_Notes | 2.85 Release Notes]].

  * For the latest versions of the tutorials, for Greenstone 2 and 3, see the [[en:tutorials| main tutorials]] page.
  * For other old versions, including Spanish, French and Russian translations of the 2.70 version, see the [[legacy:tutorials|Old Tutorials]] page.


<!--**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/gs2-current/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/gs2-current/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.
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/gs2-current/en/install_greenstone.htm|Installing Greenstone]]**
  * Installing Greenstone on a Windows system
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/gs2-current/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
-->
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/pdfbox-extension.htm|Processing newer versions of PDF with PDFBox]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/associated_files.htm|Associated files: combining different versions of the same document together]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/export_to_CDROM.htm|Exporting a collection to CD-ROM/DVD]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/formatting_tudor.htm|Formatting the HTML collection—Tudor]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/section_tagging.htm|Section tagging for HTML documents]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/downloading_from_internet.htm|Downloading files from the web]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/web_linking.htm|Pointing to documents on the web]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/bibliography_collection.htm|Bibliographic collection]]**

  * Using fielded searching
  * Exploding the database
  * Reformatting the collection to use the exploded metadata
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/cds_isis.htm|CDS/ISIS collection]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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)
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/multimedia_collection_explore.htm|Looking at a multimedia collection]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
  * Changing the collection's background image
  * Building a full-size version of the collection
  * Adding an image collage browser
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/scanned_image_collection.htm|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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/OAI_collection.htm|Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection]]**

  * Tweaking the presentation with format statements
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/OAI_downloading.htm|Downloading over OAI]]**

  * Downloading using the Librarian Interface
  * Downloading using the command line
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/GS_OAI_server.htm|Setting up your Greenstone OAI Server]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/METS_export.htm|Use METS as Greenstone's Internal Representation]]**

**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/dspace_to_greenstone.htm|Moving a collection from DSpace to Greenstone]]**

  * Adding indexing and browsing capabilities to match DSpace's
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/greenstone_to_dspace.htm|Moving a collection from Greenstone to DSpace]]**

  * Using Greenstone from the command line
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/gems.htm|Editing metadata sets]]**

  * Running GEMS
  * Creating a new metadata set
  * Adding a new element to a metadata set
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/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
**[[http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/2.85/en/depositor.htm|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