Greenstone

Greenstone 2.85 RC2 was finally released on Wednesday 26 October 2011. The Greenstone Team invites all those interested to please test the new release binaries out, which can be obtained from http://www.greenstone.org/snapshots, and write back on any ... [More] bugs or issues encountered. The updated release notes are at http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/2.85_Release_Notes For more information, check out the Greenstone [...] [Less]

There was a lot of testing going on in the last 2 months, and I forgot all about writing blog entries. The first stage of testing was to go through the Greenstone tutorials on Windows (Vista), Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac (Leopard). Some bugs were discovered and fixed, and after that RC1 of GS2.85 could be released. Thereafter, […]

I just came across this video made by Sally Pewhairangi, a library project manager here in New Zealand. We're proud of our Kiwi culture, both the libraries and the rugby! Sally's original blog post is at Finding Heroes, and contains more information about the video... she can also be ...

The National Library of New Zealand released its federated search beta site. The new site is an exciting improvement to the Library's already innovative digital presence, and includes access to the Papers Past digital newspaper collection. For more information about the Library's new site, please read the official announcement.

When the National Library of New Zealand first put its collection of digitized newspapers online, it did so as images alone, without full text searchability. The site was popular, but not perfect. Wanting to improve the site, NLNZ further processed its collection to include OCR processing, which attempts to extract the letters, and words, ...

Progress on the Document Structure Editor (the name is still undecided) is going well. It now actually makes the changes and then builds the collection, which results in the changes actually showing up in the documents, which is quite satisfying to ... [More] see! The building process takes a reasonable amount of time (especially if multiple collections need […] [Less]

Selecting materials to digitize is not always cut and dry. There are rules, but the rules are not firm, and not everyone selects materials the same way.” ~Jill Hurst-Wahl Even though there’s no set formula or equation to follow in making decisions about how to select materials from your collections to digitize, there are some [...]

This week work has continued on the Document Basket/Document Maker/Document Structure Editor (we’re still deciding on the final name). The move and duplicate operations have been implemented and are successfully being mirrored on the server, so it is ... [More] now very easy to move sections around and duplicate them. Unfortunately these changes do not yet show […] [Less]

Vassar College Library has made its digitized archives of the Vassar College student newspaper, The Miscellany News, freely available online using Veridian digital library software. Vassar's collection of historic newspaper consists of nearly 24,000 ... [More] pages of article-level METS/ALTO files, with fully searchable text. The online archive covers the publications history between 1914 and 2001, with the next phase of the digitization project including 2001 to present. [Less]

Those who are eagerly awaiting the release of the final version of 2.85 will not have to wait much longer. Anu has been working hard testing it on each of the platforms we support and for the most part things are looking good. Any assistance in testing is always greatly appreciated and if you would […]