The Greenstone Digital Library Software

Digital libraries are large, organized, focused collections of information. The Greenstone software is intended to help people design and build such collections quickly and easily. Collections may be large—some comprise Gbytes of text; others include many millions of short documents. Additionally, far larger volumes of information may be associated with a collection—typically audio, image, and video. Greenstone is international and multilingual: it is widely used in many different countries; interfaces and collections exist in many of the world’s languages; and it is being distributed by UNESCO as part of the “Information for All” programme. It is multiplatform: it runs on all Windows, Unix, and Macintosh OS/X systems. Users access collections over the web, or from self-contained, self-installing CD-ROMs.