Greenstone

For the last two weeks, I was mainly learning the practical side of how to handle the Greenstone translations. Mainly how to generate the spreadsheets for translators to use, though there was also the opportunity for learning to handle translated spreadsheets. Next to that, there were some questions on the mailing list that I had […]

This week has mostly been spent improving Greenstone 3’s capability to display paged documents. This has mostly involved upgrading the table of contents functionality to better handle documents with a lot of pages and also have names like “Page 1″, “Page 2″, “Page 3″ etc. making them virtually indistinguishable by their names. In this case […]

This week has mostly been focused on bug fixing. One bug we discovered a while ago was that the code that highlights search terms in the text would also find occurrences of the terms inside tags (e.g. it would find the word farming in <a href=”farming.html”>farming</a>). The fix was to exclude the characters inside these […]

As several people had encountered issues in the recent 2.85 release, a lot of this week was spent looking at them so that we can get 2.86 out as soon as possible. The bugs and oversights are not fatal and work-arounds are possible: 1) If you don’t have the PDF-box extension for Greenstone installed already, GLI will […]

This week I have been working on a different area of Greenstone 3 for a change. We noticed that one area that was lacking in Greenstone 3 was the ability to display paged-image collections. For those of you who are not aware, a paged-image collection is a collection of (usually) scanned documents that consist of […]

Having been built on Greenstone, Veridian shares many of its capabilities. But it's own unique development also makes it significantly different from Greenstone. This article explores the technical differences between Greenstone and Veridian, making it easier to decide which software better suits your digital collection.

For the last several months we've been increasingly aware of the role mobile devices are playing in how people access and interact with the Internet. Veridian has always performed well on mobile phones, in that it does not use Flash and generates fully-compliant, standards-based HTML. But mobile phones never really provided large enough ...

When we released Veridian 3.0 in June, we also released the User Text Correction add-on module that empowers the users of a newspaper collection to correct poor OCR. The University of California Riverside was the first customer to install UTC on a live newspaper collection on August 22nd. We've monitored the collection closely ...

At last, we did it. After a lot of testing, bug discovery and fixing, we’ve finally released Greenstone 2.85. It should be much improved from 2.84. There were also some last minute changes from release candidate version 2. Please do grab a binary for ... [More] your operating system by visiting the download page at http://www.greenstone.org/download and start […] [Less]

My work on the Document Structure Editor is on the back-burner at the moment (although still progressing well) as I have been designing a prototype collection that integrates a map-view into the various parts of Greenstone, to display the spacial information present in the collection. At this point I am modifying the Tipple Paradise Garden […]