Practical Open Source Software for Libraries by Engard Nicole

Author:Engard, Nicole [Engard, Nicole C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78063-043-4
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: 2010-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

The international Unicode character set is used throughout, so that documents in any language and character encoding can be imported (in fact, Greenstone can automatically detect the language and encoding of most documents). Collections of documents in Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, English, French, Spanish, German, Hindi and Maori are publicly available. The New Zealand Digital Library website (http://nzdl.org) hosts many of these, and the Greenstone website links to sites that contain further examples.

It makes little sense to have a collection whose content is in Chinese or Russian, but whose supporting text – instructions, navigation buttons, labels, images, help text, and so on – are in English. Consequently, the entire Greenstone interface has been translated into a range of languages, and the interface language can be changed by the user as they browse from the Preferences page.1

In addition to the freedom of organizing multimedia collections, Greenstone also offers customization of the interface and metadata formats. By default, Greenstone’s user interface has a very clean look and feel, but many libraries want to make their digital library site look more like their traditional library site for branding purposes (see Figure 9.2). To get ideas of what kinds of customizations have been done, you can view the list of example collections on the Greenstone official site (http://www.greenstone.org/examples). Waikato University manages its digital archive of the Illustrated London News (http://digital.liby.waikato.ac.nz) on Greenstone; see Figure 9.2.

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