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_pagetitle_ {Greenstone Digital Library Software}

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<h2>Greenstone Digital Library Software</h2>

<p>
The Greenstone Digital Library software provides a new way of
organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on
CD-ROM. 
<p>
A digital library is made up of a set of collections. 
Each collection of information comprises several 
(typically several thousand, or even several million) documents, 
which share a uniform searching and browsing interface. 
Collections can be organized in many different ways while 
retaining a strong family resemblance. 
Numerous examples are hosted at the New Zealand Digital Library Project
web site (<a href="http://www.nzdl.org">http://www.nzdl.org</a>).
<p>
Although primarily designed for access over the Web, 
Greenstone collections can be made available,
in precisely the same form, on CD-ROM for standalone PCs.  
Greenstone CDs work with any version of Microsoft Windows.
<p>
Greenstone is open-source software, 
available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. 
The latest version can always be
<a href="http://www.nzdl.org/html/DOWNLOAD.html">downloaded</a>
from
<a href="ftp://nzdl.org/pub/gsdl/">ftp://nzdl.org/pub/gsdl/</a>.
Documentation is available in the form of 
the Greenstone Digital Library Software manual.
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<p>
There is now a mailing list for Greenstone, intended primarily for
discussions about the digital library software developed by the New Zealand
Digital Library project.  If you are, or plan to be, an active user of
Greenstone, you should consider joining the mailing list and contributing
to the discussions.
<p>
This mailing list is hosted by the Pathfinder Library System in beautiful
Grand Junction, Colorado (John Campbell, john@colosys.net).  To subscribe,
send email to <a
href="mailto:majordomo@colosys.net">majordomo@colosys.net</a> with the text
<blockquote>
subscribe greenstone
</blockquote>
(no subject, no name, nothing else).  To send a message to the list,
address it to <a
href="mailto:greenstone@colosys.net">greenstone@colosys.net</a>.

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<h2>Credits</h2>
<p>
Greenstone Digital Library Software is produced by the New Zealand Digital
Library project.  The current software was designed and implemented by
Rodger McNab, Stefan Boddie, Bill Rogers, Hong Chen and Stuart Inglis, and
has benefited greatly from previous versions constructed by Craig
Nevill-Manning and Todd Reed and previous interface designs by Che
Tamahere.
<p>
The New Zealand Digital Library project is directed by Ian Witten and
involves Mark Apperley, David Bainbridge, Sally Jo Cunningham, Steve Jones,
Te Taka Keegan, Malika Mahoui and Lloyd Smith as principal investigators.
Other researchers who have contributed to the project include Carl Gutwin,
Rob Holte, Gordon Paynter and Bill Teahan.
<p>
Greenstone Digital Library Software uses the MG search engine produced
principally by Alistair Moffat at the University of Melbourne and described
in the book <i>Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and indexing documents and
images</i> by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Tim C. Bell (Van Nostrand
Reinhold, 1994).
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<br>April 2000
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