Greenstone tutorial exercises (2023)

Modified for Greenstone version: 3.11

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If you are working from a Greenstone Tutorial CD-ROM, DVD or USB flash drive, the sample files for these exercises are in the folder sample_files; otherwise they can be downloaded from sourceforge.

The text sometimes uses Windows terminology, but the exercises work equally well on other systems if you make appropriate changes to the pathnames.

Building a small collection of HTML files

Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface
Starting a new collection
Adding documents to the collection
Building the collection
Viewing the extracted metadata
Viewing the internal links and external links
Setting up a shortcut in the Librarian interface

A simple image collection

Adding Title and Description metadata
Change Format Features to display new metadata
Changing the size of image thumbnails
Adding a browsing classifier based on Description metadata
Creating a searchable index based on Description metadata

An image collection with GPS metadata

Extracting embedded metadata
Adding in a map view to browsing
Adding in a map view to a document

A collection of Word and PDF files

Viewing the extracted metadata
Manually adding metadata to documents in a collection
Document Plugins
Search indexes
Browsing classifiers

Formatting the Word and PDF collection

Tidying up the default format statement
Linking to the Greenstone version or original version of documents
Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
Displaying multi-valued metadata
Advanced multi-valued metadata

Enhanced PDF handling

Using image format
Using process_exp to control document processing (advanced)
Customising the table of contents section heading display
Opening PDF files with query terms highlighted

Enhanced Word document handling

Using Windows native scripting
Modes in the Librarian Interface
Defining styles
Removing pre-defined table of contents
Extracting document properties as metadata
Processing docx files

Associated files: combining different versions of the same document together

Associating one document with another
Linking to associated documents

A large collection of HTML files—Tudor

Extracting more metadata from the HTML
Looking at different views of the files in the Gather and Enrich panels

Enhanced collection of HTML files—Tudor

Adding hierarchically-structured metadata and a Hierarchy classifier
Partitioning the full-text index based on metadata values
Controlling the building process

Formatting the HTML collection—Tudor

Section tagging for HTML documents

Downloading files from the web

Pointing to documents on the web

Bibliographic collection

Using fielded searching
Exploding the database
Reformatting the collection to use the exploded metadata

CDS/ISIS collection

Looking at a multimedia collection

Building a multimedia collection

Manually correcting metadata
Browsing by media type
Using switch statements
Using AZCompactList rather than List
Making bookshelves show how many items they contain
Branding the collection with an image
Using UnknownPlugin
Cleaning up a title browser using regular expressions
Using different icons for different media types
Building a full-size version of the collection

Scanned image collection

Grouping documents by series title and displaying dates within each group
Browsing documents by Date.
Searching at page level

Advanced scanned image collection

Adding another newspaper to the collection
XML based item file

Open Archives Initiative (OAI) collection

Tweaking the presentation with format statements

Setting up your Greenstone OAI Server

Validating the Greenstone OAI server

Downloading over OAI

Downloading using the Librarian Interface
Downloading using the command line
Building the downloaded documents in GLI

Using the UnknownConverterPlugin to make unsupported document formats searchable

Working with DjVu documents in Greenstone
Extracting the text from DjVu documents with DjVuLibre's djvutxt
Processing DjVu documents with the UnknownConverterPlugin
Associating an icon with DjVu documents in Greenstone

Use METS as Greenstone's Internal Representation

Moving a collection from DSpace to Greenstone

Adding indexing and browsing capabilities to match DSpace's

Moving a collection from Greenstone to DSpace

Using Greenstone from the command line

Editing metadata sets

Running GEMS
Creating a new metadata set
Adding a new element to a metadata set

Building and searching with different indexers

Build with Lucene
Search with Lucene
Build with MGPP
Search with MGPP
Use search mode hotkeys with query term
A quick reference of the search mode hotkeys in MGPP

Incrementally building a collection using the command line

Incrementally adding some additional new documents to a collection
Incrementally deleting some documents from a collection
Editing a document's text and metadata, and then incrementally rebuilding the collection
Automatic incremental indexing

Customization: Themes

Using Greenstone Visual Themes
Creating a custom theme using ThemeRoller (advanced)

Collection-Specific Themes

Creating a custom theme
Setting a collection's theme

Customizing your home page

Changing the library's home page
Adding the list of collections
Adding a cross-collection search box
Login Links
Adding your library's site name
Changing your library's site name

Defining Libraries

Exploring libraries
Creating a new site
Defining a new library
Adding and using a new interface
Changing default settings for the Greenstone server and GLI

Designing a new interface: Part 1

Creating a new interface
Defining a new library
Gathering files

Designing a new interface: Part 2

Changing the home page content
Changing the HTML header content

Designing a new interface: Part 3

Examining main.xsl
Adding a navigation bar
Adding functionality to the quick search box
Adding the library name and login links

Using WebSwing GLI (Web GLI)

Creating a user account
Accessing WebSwing GLI: a Greenstone Librarian Interface (GLI) application accessible over your browser