{"title":"Greenstone: a comprehensive open-source digital library software system","authors":"I. Witten, S. Boddie, D. Bainbridge, R. McNab","doi":"10.1145/336597.336650","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the Greenstone digital library software, a comprehensive, open-source system for the construction and presentation of information collections. Collections built with Greenstone offer effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use. Moreover, they are easily maintainable and can be augmented and rebuilt entirely automatically. The system is extensible: software \"plugins\" accommodate different document and metadata types.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"86 1","pages":"113-121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"149","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Digital Library Perspectives","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336650","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 149
Abstract
This paper describes the Greenstone digital library software, a comprehensive, open-source system for the construction and presentation of information collections. Collections built with Greenstone offer effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use. Moreover, they are easily maintainable and can be augmented and rebuilt entirely automatically. The system is extensible: software "plugins" accommodate different document and metadata types.
期刊介绍:
Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with digital content collections. It publishes research related to the curation and web-based delivery of digital objects collected for the advancement of scholarship, teaching and learning. And which advance the digital information environment as it relates to global knowledge, communication and world memory. The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends, initiatives, and developments. Including those in digital libraries and digital repositories, along with their standards and technologies. The editor invites contributions on the following, as well as other related topics: Digitization, Data as information, Archives and manuscripts, Digital preservation and digital archiving, Digital cultural memory initiatives, Usability studies, K-12 and higher education uses of digital collections.