Greenstone Digital Library

Greenstone Digital Library: Open Source System for Building Digital Library Collectionss

An open source software system for building and distributing digital library collections, organizing information, and publishing on the Internet or CD-ROM.

What is Greenstone Digital Library?

Greenstone Digital Library is an open source software system designed for creating full-text searchable collections of digital documents. It was produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato and has been developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO.

Greenstone provides a way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or CD-ROM. It builds collections with effective browsing and searching mechanisms to gain access to the documents. The system is aimed for use in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions to build their own digital collections.

Key features of Greenstone include:

• Multilingual and multicultural - supports Unicode and many languages/scripts
• Provides full-text searching and metadata-based browsing
• Web and removable media publication (CD/DVD)
• Command line and graphical interfaces
• Plugin architecture supports extending functionality
• Distributed Collections allow building and sharing collection components

Greenstone is commonly used around the world by organizations such as libraries, universities, research institutions and humanitarian agencies that need to build digital document repositories to preserve knowledge and make information available to their communities.

Greenstone Digital Library Features

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