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The Polynesian Voyaging Society is seeks to preserve the art and science of how the historical Polynesian people discovered and settled the small Pacific islands scattered throughout the massive ocean. Founded in Hawaii in 1973, the Society ... [More] replicates historical Polynesian vessels and expeditions. Over the years, the PVS has accumulated a massive archive of information.... Read more [Less]

UC Riverside is a National Digital Newspaper Project grant awardee with a goal to digitize and make historic California newspapers available over the Internet. Their efforts are available online as theCalifornia Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) ... [More] , administered by the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research. Initially, UCR began developing an in-house solution to displaying METS/ALTO data... Read more [Less]

Until 2007, the Papers Past digital newspaper  collection at the National Library of New Zealand was a popular, though difficult collection to use. Having conducted satisfaction surveys, the National Library knew that it’s collection of digitized ... [More] newspaper images needed to include full text search. So the library set out to change it’s collection by running... Read more [Less]

Project Planning   “Building a library is a major undertaking that needs to be carefully planned” ~Ian Witten and David Bainbridge “Measure twice, cut once.”  We’ve all heard it before, and it’s equally applicable here. Planning for a digital ... [More] newspaper collection simply involves defining your project’s goals, carefully sifting through all the options available to... Read more [Less]

Writing in the New York Times on September 10th, 2011, Professor Steven Mihm quotes biographer James McGrath Morris stating, “That’s when I realized that these databases would change the work we do.”  Mr. Morris was specifically referring to ... [More] databases of digitized historic newspapers changing the way biographers and historians access information by eliminating the need... Read more [Less]

This week we’ve been hard at work testing Greenstone 3. We’ve managed to discover a few bugs and have fixed several of them already. While we’re at it we’ve also added horizontal classifiers into Greenstone 3 (frequent Greenstone 2 users may find this a very welcome addition). A horizontal classifier has the top level of […]

This week I have been testing and have fixed several minor bugs in Greenstone 3. I have also started working on a new feature (to be included in 3.06 most likely), which will theoretically allow much more advanced collection editing than what we’ve ever had before. At the moment a single page in a collection […]

Sorry that I haven’t posted an update in a while, I keep forgetting to do it. Good news though, we are now in the final testing stages of Greenstone 3 and should hopefully have a 3.05 release candidate ready before the end of the week. We’ve also got some exciting things planned for 3.06 as […]

Over the week, have been working on the activate.pl script (and things that it needs). The details are at http://trac.greenstone.org/ticket/825 For the latest changes made today, need to retest these changes against GS3 on Windows. Still need to test the entire process on Linux.

At the start of last week, finished off the task of the GS3 “debuginfo” button that now appears next to the login button. The Greenstone tutorial xml files can now include a MajorVersion element with number attribute to specify if the instructions are for GS3 or GS2 and will get processed by the XSLT to […]