Greenstone

Hello again, sorry about the big delay between posts, things have been pretty busy here recently and remembering to write this often slips my mind. We’ve released our first release candidate for 2.85 so please try it out and let us know if there are any issues. You can find it at http://www.greenstone.org/snapshots. The front-end for the […]

In my meanderings on the web this morning, I ran into this definition of the sometimes elusive digital library. A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform or other media) and accessible by computers. Library content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via [...]

The California Digital Newspaper Collection produced another excellent tutorial explaining how to correct poor OCR text in the CDNC.

Regardless of whether you’re digitizing historic newspapers or a collection of born-digital illustrations, building a digital library involves three essential components. Matched well, these 3 components provide access to your collection and deliver value to your library patrons.

The California Digital Newspaper Collection has produced and published some excellent guides on how to use Veridian.  All the guides, including searching and now text-correction, can be seen on the CNDC Help page. In this video, Steve Anderson shows how to navigate Veridian.

Upper Hutt City Library released the latest version of its Upper Hutt Newspaper Archive. The archive provides free access to the city's longest running newspaper -- The Leader.

Today, I ran across an announcement on the University of Houston Downtown Library's blog stating that patrons will need to register at the University's ARTstor Digital Library before being allowed to download any of the images in the collection.

It’s been about 4 weeks since I wrote an entry. In the meantime we’ve been tidying up the last of the To Do list items for the upcoming GS2 release and several of the To Do list items for the GS3 release. Sam is now hard working on the GS3 interface alongside his other work […]

The University of California at Riverside added Veridian's User-Text-Correction module to its California Digital Newspaper Collection this week. User Text Correction, which enables the site's users to improve poor OCR text, was installed along with an upgrade to the latest Veridian version.

We are admittedly METS/ALTO evangelists.To further the cause and make the standard slightly easier to understand and use, we've created these two quick PDF guides that cover the very basics of what you should to know about METS and ALTO XML.