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cds_isis

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CDS/ISIS ISISPlugin Additional Resources How do I get my CDS/ISIS database into Greenstone? * Creating digital libraries based on CDS/ISIS databases ( En Español) is a detailed guide for using CDS/ISIS databases in Greenstone. * There is also a tutorial on creating a CDS/ISIS collection * Converting a Winisis library Catalogue into a Greenstone Digital Library Application by Rajasekharan and Nafala (2007).

compressed

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Compressed/Archived documents

contentdm

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CONTENTdm The CONTENTdm is a commercial digital library () that provides tools for organizing, managing and searching digital collections over the Internet. Collections in CONTENTdm digital library can be exported in the RDF format. CONTENTdmPlugin

csv

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CSV documents CSVPlugin MetadataCSVPlugin * Ensure that excel has not quoted Filename and other field headings in the first line of your .csv metadata file. * The default behaviour on excel is to quote everthing, so you may need to inspect your .csv file with a text editor before ingest.

dspace

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DSpace DSpace is free, open source repository software. It is possible to both import a DSpace collection into Greenstone and to export a Greenstone collection in DSpace format. Imported DSpace collections are handled by the DSpacePlugin. Importing DSpace collections

image

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Images in Greenstone Watermarking There are several ways to do watermarking. If you want the watermark to be a real security protection (so that if someone was to download the image locally, the watermark would still appear on the image), you have to develop some server-side script that merge the original image with the watermark and shows a "modified" image. This can be done with software like

index

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File type information This section of the wiki looks at different filetypes that may be ingested into a Greenstone collection, and discusses issues for each type. Text-based files * Text files * Html files * Media Wiki files * XML files Image-based files * Image files * Scanned text files Binary files

marc

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MARC

mediawiki

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MediaWiki MediaWiki is free and open source software for building and maintaining a wiki website. Using the MediaWiki Download function and the MediaWikiPlugin, you can mirror a Mediawiki website in a Greenstone collection. MediaWiki Download See the download page for general information on downloading records through Greenstone.

metadata_database_files

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Metadata database files Metadata database file types, such as MARC, OAI, CDS/ISIS, BibTex, Refer and ProCite, generally contain multiple metadata records. These records can either be treated as documents themselves or, in some cases, can be used as metadata for other documents. In addition, a database file can be processed as a single file or can be "exploded" into individual records.

music

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Music Documents

pdf

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PDF Documents in Greenstone PDFPlugin Some of these options use the standard pdftohtml program, others use ImageMagick and Ghostscript to convert the file to a series of images. Ghostscript is a program that can convert Postscript and PDF files to other formats. You can download it from

powerpoint

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PowerPoint Documents When dealing with a pptx file, or another new version of Powerpoint, the situation calls for the Open Office Extension. However, the default settings will convert only the 1st slide of the ppt and the links to other slides (such as "next slide", "last slide") won't work.

scanned_image

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Scanned images with OCR PagedImagePlugin Additional Resources Please see the following tutorials: * Scanned image collection * Advanced scanned image collection

text

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Text-based documents Plain text documents Rich text format

unknown

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Unknown file types Sometimes you have a file type that Greenstone doesn't recognise. These can be added into a collection using UnknownPlugin. UnknownPlugin is a simple plugin for importing files in formats that Greenstone doesn't know anything about. A dummy document will be created for every such file, and the file itself will be passed to Greenstone as the "associated file" of the document.

video

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Documentation for creating streaming video library in Greenstone * For collection based on audio/video media files including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPA, WMV, WMA, ASF, MP3, QuickTime etc. * This documentation gives brief instructions for developing a Media Streaming Video Library in Greenstone. For media streaming Unreal Media Server is required at the server end and Streaming Media Player is required to be installed at enduser's desktops. TCP protocol is used for communication between cl…

web

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HTML files Downloading files from the web See the download page for general information on downloading records through Greenstone. Greenstone can download records using HTTP or FTP protocols from the GLI (in the Download panel) or the command line (using the downloadfrom.pl

word

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Word documents Greenstone can process documents in Microsoft Word format (.doc/.docx).

xml

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XML Documents There are two main options for getting XML files into Greenstone: using XSL or writing a customised plugin. XSL Outside of Greenstone, you can use XSL (or other procedure) to generate either HTML, which can be processed by HTMLPlugin, or Greenstone Archival Format files. If you generate archive files, you will not need to run the import phase of collection building. You will also not be able to build the collection in the Librarian Interface. You can use the Librarian Interf…