Greenstone

While perusing my morning sources, I stumbled upon this research presentation by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. It presents data from a research project centered on the rise of E-readers and who, how, and why the …Read More

Here is a good beginning primer on what linked data is, and how libraries can benefit from using it. Linked Data in Libraries View more presentations from Carl Hess

In a Huffington Post blog post today, Ramon Nuez discusses four reasons businesses should use crowdsourcing. There are a number of benefits that crowdsourcing offers — here are 4: A workforce which is cloud-based and is available whenever and wherever …Read More

<gslib:langfrag> was to replace a whole lot of XSLT statements instantiating a javascript array in header.xsl. It took a bit of messing about, but util.xsl now calls a new Java method to generate the Javascript array declaration and initiation ... [More] , and this called from document.xsl and documentbasket.xsl (instead of header.xsl) using the new <gslib:langfrag> element. The gs2-library […] [Less]

In February we posted about the difference in approach to crowdsourcing text correction at two large historical newspaper websites, the NLA’s Trove collection, and the National Library of Finland’s Digital Koot. And we summarized Rose Holley’s assertion that games and …Read More

Sure it’s been said before. It’s been said even about states like Montana and regions like Northern Virgina, and cities like Detroit. But in this particular case, the adage fits. As goes NYPL, so goes the country. The New York …Read More

The very start of last week still required more work on the scripts that would handle translations made in Google’s Translator Toolkit. A couple of additional scripts were written. Thereafter and until yesterday, the work has been mostly centred on ... [More] GS3’s usersDB: getting the output of txt2usersDB to work as input to usersDB2txt and viceversa as well […] [Less]

I’m writing this a day early this week because I will not be working tomorrow due to Easter, I still have a bit to report however. This week I decided to re-think one of the previous decisions we made in regards to viewing documents in Greenstone 3. In Greenstone 2 you can normally only view one […]

The first two weeks involved: generating some files for translation of the Greenstone interface (Mongolian, Bhutanese) and committing changes translators had submitted (Laotian) fixing up the GS2 CORBA code, including bringing it up to speed with the ... [More] rest of GS2’s runtime code, so that CORBA works again: it can now compile once more, and the corbaserver and […] [Less]

This week I have added the ability for users to register themselves for a Greenstone 3 site. To register a user must provide their username, password and email address (we may add more fields or the ability for an administrator to add custom fields) as well as match two words from an image (to make […]