Workshop on the Greenstone Digital Library Software

University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji , September 2 - 4, 2004

Introduction

This workshop will promote the development and sharing of digital library collections using the freely available Greenstone Digital Library software. The aim is to train trainers, and participants are expected to promote digital library collection development by conducting similar programmes in their countries.

Instructors

Dr. David M Nichols
Mr. Michael Dewsnip
Mr. Richard Manargh

Schedule

(We may alter the schedule depending on how things go)

Day 1

08:30-09:00 Welcome, introduce participants and instructors
09:00-10:30 Greenstone: Overview of features, capabilities, applications
10:30-11:00 Tea
11:00-12:00 Platforms, installation, configuration; accessing example collections
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 Lab: Installing Greenstone, browsing collections
15:00-15:15 Tea
15:15-17:00 Librarian interface: Building collections

Day 2

08:30-10:15 Lab: Building collections with the Librarian interface
10:15-10:30 Tea
10:30-12:00 Librarian interface: Adding and using metadata
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:45 Lab: Adding and using metadata
14:45-15:00 Tea
15:00-17:00 Librarian interface: Advanced features

Day 3

08:30-10:15 Lab: Configuring collections
10:15-10:30 Tea

From the rest of Day 3 we will be flexible about the content, there are several labs and topics we can cover:

How building works; bibliography collections
Multilingual support; interface languages; Niupepa
Lab: Heterogeneous Documents and Multimedia
Customizing your collection, creating a CD-ROM
Lab: Customizing your collection, creating a CD-ROM

15:15-16:00 Concluding session

Greenstone Wiki

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