30 November - 1 December, UCT, Shuttelworth Laboratory,

PROGRAMME

INSTRUCTOR: Ian Witten, New Zealand Digital Library Project, University of Waikato, New Zealand assisted by Dr Hussein Suleman & Dynal Patel

DAY ONE:    

Welcome 
    Susan Veldsman

Overview

    What does Greenstone do?—Examples

    Platforms and installation

    Documentation and help

Building simple collections

    Building collection from HTML documents

    Building collection from Word/PDF documents

    Building image collection

    Creating Greenstone CD-ROM

    Adding and using metadata

    Browsing classifiers, search indexes

    Extensive exercise based on HTML files

Building advanced collections

    Multimedia collection

DAY TWO:

Customizing

    Under the hood: collection configuration file

    Customizing with macros

    Personalizing your home page

    Examples of what others have done

Reaching out

    Bibliographic (MARC) data: metadata crosswalks

    OAI: serving and ingesting

    Generating METS; using MODS

    Interoperating with DSpace

More advanced collections

    Multimedia collection (continuation)

    Formats and macros exercise

    Scanned image collection (if time)

Practical interoperability exercises

    Collections of MARC records

    Collection of harvested OAI records

    Exporting to DSpace Using METS as the internal representation

The way forward

    Report on a study to investigate the feasibility of establishing a Greenstone Support Organization in Africa
     Dr Dale Peters & Dynal Patel

RESOURCES