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Posted over 13 years ago
With the new user-login capability of Greenstone3 I have been creating and improving various features that relate to this capability. For example, the previous administration capabilities (the ability for admin users to add/edit/remove users) were ... [More] not very secure and have now had an overhaul to properly connect with the servlet security method I described in […] [Less]
Posted over 13 years ago
This week has had a rather exciting development that several people have been wanting for quite a long time.  The 64-bit compatible versions of MG, MGPP and GDBM have been added to the main code, meaning that Greenstone 2 and 3 can now compile successfully on 64-bit systems. The reason this has taken a long […]
Posted over 13 years ago
Our exploration into security for Greenstone 3 using the built-in security provided by the Java Servlet API has gone well. We now have the ability to allow users to restrict parts of their collections to users within certain groups by specifying constraints in the collectionConfig.xml file. We are still working on the exact format for […]
Posted over 13 years ago
Things have been fairly busy here the last few weeks so I’ve been a little slack on the blogging. We have been continuing to look into robust authentication for Greenstone 3 and as part of the we have been investigating the security features that the Java Servlet technology (that Greenstone 3 uses) has built in. […]
Posted over 13 years ago
This week I have been touching up on a few unfinished features. One of these was the mapping features that I can’t remember whether or not I have written about before. Basically, if your documents have coordinate information (i.e. latitude and longitude information) we now have a feature that will map those documents on a […]
Posted over 13 years ago
One of the things we have been doing this week is deciding the best way to handle user authentication in Greenstone 3. We have a very basic system in place at the moment but we would like something more robust. At the moment we are investigating using the authentication system in the web-server we use […]
Posted over 13 years ago
My time this week has mostly been spent helping out one the masters students here in our lab. I have been helping her develop the ability to tag photos and text in the Greenstone 3 collection she is working on. This has resulted in us enhancing our Greenstone 3 (and also Greenstone 2) CGI capabilities […]
Posted over 13 years ago
Happy new year to all Greenstone users! We’re back at work now after a couple of weeks off over the holiday period and already we’ve got a few new things lined up. In Greenstone we try very hard to make the modification of the look and feel of collections as easy as possible.  Unfortunately this often […]
Posted over 13 years ago
Continued on the problem that I thought had been almost resolved last week: getting the batch files in GS2 to handle not only spaces but also brackets in the Greenstone filepaths. The batch files were done, but the perl code needed some correcting too. After inspecting many files in order to see whether […]
Posted over 13 years ago
This week I have been tidying up the new paged-image functionality so that it dynamically loads each page (rather than doing a full page reload each time) and also added the functionality that allows the user to choose from “Text view” (which only shows the OCR’d text), “Image view” (which shows the original image) and […]