Workshop training materials

All workshops used the iMark Information Management Resource Kit  "Digitization and Digital Libraries Module" from CDROM (FAO and UNESCO, 2005), also accessible here as well as regular Greenstone training exercises      

Additional training documents from the course held at Bunda College, Malawi, 2007

  • Digital Libraries, Pat Liebetrau, DISA (PDF) 167.57 Kb
  • Metadata Overview, Pat Liebetrau, DISA (PDF) 428.03 Kb
  • Dublin Core Practical Issues, Pat Liebetrau, DISA (PDF) 1.46 Mb
  • How to build Greenstone collections from CDS/ISIS databases, Renate Morgenstern (PPT) 1.79 Mb  

Documentation by the Southern African Support Network

Main Greenstone installation on a central server with CentOS and librarians building collections from their PC's: "How I solved Remote Collection Building" by Africa Bwamkuu, Tanzania  (PDF)

Selected from the central Greenstone wiki at Waikato 

1) The Greenstone Installer's Guide, User's Guide, Developer's Guide and "From Paper to Collection"  How-To ( digitisation!) in the Manual section of the wiki

2) Customizing the look-and-feel of Greenstone - like changing the Home (Opening) Page or changing the appearance of the Search, Browse, Results page

3) Conversion of a Winisis database with linked fulltext documents into a Greenstone Library (Rajasekharan, K., Nafala, K.M.) (wiki's General Documentation section)

4) Digital Archiving of Audio Content - Using Winisis And Greenstone Software (UNESCO New Dehli Office, October 2008) (wiki's Manual section)