As very large digital library collections become more commonplace, software tools must adapt appropriately. This paper reports on an evolution of the Greenstone Digital Library software to support parallel processing during the collection building phase. A series of experiments were conducted to first establish a basic speed-up factor, and then deconstruct the parallelisation process to underst...

Greenstone is an open source digital library system that has developed and matured since its inception in 1995. Today it is used in over 60 countries, with a strong emphasis on humanitarian aid. The software is also used as a framework for research in other fields such has human computer interaction, text-mining, and ethnography. This article provides a summary of Greenstone’s uses to date with...

The Greenstone Digital Library Software is a comprehensive package for creating, maintaining, presenting and disseminating collections of digital resources (http://www.greenstone.org/, [10]). Greenstone collections offer effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use, and a user-friendly interface called The Collector makes it easy for p...

This paper examines the issues surrounding distributed Digital Library protocols. First, it reviews three prominent digital library protocols: Z39.50, SDLIP, and Dienst, plus Greenstone’s own protocol. Then, we summarise the implementation in the Greenstone Digital Libary of a number of different protocols for distributed digital libraries, and describe sample applications of the same: a digita...

Abstract The Paleoarchean Mt Edgar dome in the East Pilbara Terrane has long been studied as an archetypal within Archean dome‐and‐keel terranes, but history of its formation is debated. Kinematic data presented this study provide new insights into late‐stage development and Terrane. Quartz crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO), optical microstructures, field structures all indicate that...

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 ...

Purpose – Many open source software packages are available for organizations and individuals to create digital libraries (DLs). However, a simple to use instrument to evaluate these DL software packages does not exist. The objectives of the present work are to develop a checklist for DL evaluation and use this checklist on four DL software packages. Design/methodology/approach – Features that c...

We examine the problem of designing a generalized system for building institutional repositories. Widely used schemes such as DSpace are tailored to a particular set of requirements: fixed metadata set; standard view when searching and browsing; pre-determined sequence for depositing items; built-in workflow for vetting new items. In contrast, Fedora builds in flexibility: institutional reposit...

Greenstone and DSpace are widely used software systems for digital libraries, and prospective users sometimes wonder which one to adopt. In fact, the aims of the two are very different, although their domains of application do overlap. This article describes the two systems and identifies their similarities and differences. We also present StoneD [note 1] a bridge between the production version...

Greenstone and DSpace are widely used software systems for digital libraries, and prospective users sometimes wonder which one to adopt. In fact, the aims of the two are very different, although their domains of application do overlap. This article describes the two systems and identifies their similarities and differences. We also present StoneD [note 1] a bridge between the production version...