Greenstone 3.11 tutorial exercises (3 Jul 2023)

• These work with Greenstone 3.11. Print version
• Each tutorial that requires sample files has a link to a zip download of the files. Alternatively, you can download all of the sample files for all of the tutorials in a single sample_files.zip.

• Tutorials for older versions of Greenstone can be found at the Old Tutorials page.

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

An image collection with GPS metadata

• Extracting embedded metadata
• Adding in a map view to browsing
• Adding in a map view to a document

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 the Greenstone version or original version of documents
• Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
• Displaying multi-valued metadata
• Advanced multi-valued metadata

Enhanced PDF handling

• Using image format
• Using process_exp to control document processing (advanced)
• Customising the table of contents section heading display
• 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

This tutorial demonstrates how to link different versions of the same document together in Greenstone.

• Associating one document with another
• Linking to associated documents

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

Looking at a multimedia collection

Building a multimedia collection

• Manually correcting metadata
• Browsing by media type
• Using switch statements
• 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 different icons for different media types
• Building a full-size version of the collection

Scanned image collection

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

Advanced scanned image collection

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

Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection

• Tweaking the presentation with format statements

Setting up your Greenstone OAI Server

• Validating the Greenstone OAI server

Downloading over OAI

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

Using the UnknownConverterPlugin to make unsupported document formats searchable

• Working with DjVu documents in Greenstone
• Extracting the text from DjVu documents with DjVuLibre's djvutxt
• Processing DjVu documents with the UnknownConverterPlugin
• Associating an icon with DjVu documents in Greenstone

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

Incrementally building a collection using the command line

• Incrementally adding some additional new documents to a collection
• Incrementally deleting some documents from a collection
• Editing a document's text and metadata, and then incrementally rebuilding the collection
• Incrementally indexing automatically

Customization: Themes

• Using Greenstone Visual Themes
• Creating a custom theme using ThemeRoller (advanced)

Collection-Specific Themes

• Creating a custom theme
• Setting a collection's theme

Customizing your home page

• Changing the library's home page
• Adding the list of collections
• Adding a cross-collection search box
• Login Links
• Adding your library's site name
• Changing your library's site name

Defining Libraries

• Exploring libraries
• Creating a new site
• Defining a new library
• Adding and using a new interface
• Changing default settings for the Greenstone server and GLI

Designing a new interface: Part 1

• Creating a new interface
• Defining a new library
• Gathering files

Designing a new interface: Part 2

• Changing the home page content
• Changing the HTML header content

Designing a new interface: Part 3

• Examining main.xsl
• Adding a navigation bar
• Adding functionality to the quick search box
• Adding the library name and login links
• Interface language files

Using WebSwing GLI (Web GLI)

• Creating a user account
• Accessing WebSwing GLI: a Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) application accessible over your browser