The Development and Usage of the Greenstone Digital Library Software

The Development and Usage of the Greenstone Digital Library Software

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It is not a digital library but a tool for building digital libraries. It provides a way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet in the form of a fully searchable, metadata-driven collect...

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Online) 2008-12, Vol.35 (2), p.31
Main Author: Witten, Ian H
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
CD-ROM
Computer Software
Developing countries
Digital libraries
Electronic Libraries
Exports
Humanitarianism
Information retrieval
Interfaces
Language
Language Research
LDCs
Librarians
Library and information science
Library catalogs
Library collections
Library Personnel
Linux
Malayo Polynesian Languages
Metadata
Online information services
Open source software
Public domain
Workstations
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Summary:Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It is not a digital library but a tool for building digital libraries. It provides a way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet in the form of a fully searchable, metadata-driven collection. It has been used to create fully searchable and brows able collections of all kinds of documents, books, photographs, newspaper images, metadata such as library catalogues of MARC records, audio (MP3 files) and video. Greenstone has been used for collections of a small handful of documents up to collections of several million newspaper articles. Digital libraries are the killer app for information technology in developing countries: they provide a low-cost way of distributing organized information widely throughout the vast Internet-challenged regions of the world. In comparison, digital library technology is relatively unimportant in developed countries, according to some, because there are so many alternative sources of information.
ISSN:1550-8366