[adlsngreenstone] Online hosting solutions for digital libraries

Tue Apr 19 00:11:04 EEST 2011

Dear Sandraghassen and other colleagues,

It's great to see that Greenstone is alive and well in Mauritius.

Concerning the question of hosting, I refer to my message of last year 
(copy below) in which I transmitted the offer of Pier Luigi Rossi of IRD 
in France to host Greenstone collections from developing countries. As 
you will see from the site http://www.beep.ird.fr there are now 10 
collections hosted on Beep. For now they are only in French, but users 
can get the English interface by changing the Preferences or by 
accessing at http://www.beep.ird.fr/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=p&p=home&l=en 
. This could be a very useful solution, at least in the short or medium 
terms, for those who have difficulties in finding an appropriate hosting 
arrangement for their collection(s). Those of you who are interested 
could contact Luigi who is copied here (I'm sure we could convince him 
to add an English translation of the Beep home page).

		Best regards, John Rose of Greenstone Team

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [sagreenstone] New Greenstone collection hosting support
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:56:46 +0100
From: John Rose <john.rose1 at free.fr>

Please find below at bottom a message sent by Pier Luigi Rossi to
French-speaking Greenstone lists with my translation above it. Luigi
informs that the new Beep server is open to collections in ALL
LANGUAGES, but that it is intended for the diffusion of SCIENTIFIC AND
TECHNICAL INFORMATION [as opposed to, for example, cultural works,
administrative/legal information or news] which would not otherwise be
available because of local hosting obstacles.

Let's thank Luigi and IRD for this very timely and helpful offer,

		John Rose of Greenstone Team

**************

"Dear Colleagues,

IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) (www.ird.fr) carries
out activities in research, expert advice, training and
knowledge-sharing to support countries which consider science and
technology as one of the foundations for their development.

One of the difficulties which they encounter is to make their available
digital documents accessible on the internet. This is often caused by
the complexity of negotiations with the teams which manage computer
communication networks, a lack of servers, poor internet connectivity, etc.

Being unable to provide an effective solution to all of your obstacles,
we propose a solution to attempt to overcome them in the short and
medium terms.

We have set up a Greenstone server with excellent internet connectivity. 
It can host your collections in a cooperative, shared environment.

Connect to the server at www.beep.ird.fr
beep = digital libraries in partnership (in French: bibliothèques
électroniques en partenariat)

We propose to develop mechanisms to ensure the greatest visibility for
your files, notably by promoting their indexing by the main search
engines and by providing gateways through the OAI protocol.

We will also be in position to provide you with timely statistics on the 
consultation of your files hosted on the server.

For storage of your collections, we offer a space of 10 GB accessible by 
ftp.

For all questions and to promote and exploit your production, don't
hesitate to contact me and to redistribute this message to other colleagues.

Looking forward to working together to add value to your scientific
production.

-- 
Pier Luigi ROSSI
IRD
32, avenue Henri Varagnat
93140 Bondy
France

Tel : 33 (0)1 48 02 56 96
Fax : 33 (0)1 48 47 30 88"

 > Delivered-To: free.fr-john.rose1 at free.fr
 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:29:46 +0100
 > From: Pier Luigi ROSSI <rossi at ird.fr>
 > Reply-To: rossi at ird.fr
 > Organization: IRD
 > To: atelier_sist at cirad.fr, greenstone_fr at freelists.org
 > CC: Dominique Cavet <dominique.cavet at ird.fr>,
 >  Marie Baudry <marie.baudry at ird.fr>
 > Subject: Serveur communautaire ouvert aux collections greenstone : 
www.beep.ird.fr
 >
 > Chères, Chers collègues,
 >
 > L'IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) (www.ird.fr)
 > réalise des actions de recherche, d'expertise, de formation et de 
partage des savoirs
 > au bénéfice des pays qui font de la science et de la technologie un 
des premiers leviers de leur développement.
 > En ce qui concerne l'information scientifique et technique,
 > nous avons réalisé plusieurs actions avec vous pour la numérisation 
et la création
 > de bibliothèques électroniques visant la valorisation de vos propres 
productions scientifiques.
 >
 > Une des difficulté que l'on rencontre concerne la véritable mise en 
accès sur internet
 > des documents électroniques qui sont disponibles. Ceci relève souvent 
d'un dialogue complexe
 > avec les équipes qui gèrent le réseau informatique, d'une 
indisponibilité des serveurs,
 > d'une connexion à l'Internet de mauvaise qualité ...
 >
 > N'ayant pas une solution efficace face à touts vos obstacles,
 > nous vous proposons une solution qui voudrait, sur le court et le 
moyen terme, les dépasser.
 >
 > Nous avons mis en place un serveur greenstone disposant d'une 
excellente connectivité Internet.
 > Il permet d'accueillir sur un espace communautaire et coopératif vos 
collections.
 >
 > Connectez-vous à : www.beep.ird.fr
 > beep = bibliothèques électroniques en partenariat
 >
 > Nous allons développer les outils permettant d'assurer la plus grande 
visibilité vis à vis de vos fichiers,
 > notamment en assurant la meilleure indexation par les principaux 
moteurs de recherche
 > et en déployant des passerelles avec le protocole OAI.
 >
 > Nous allons également être en mesure de vous fournir des statistiques 
pointues
 > concernant la consultation de vos fichiers présents sur le serveur.
 >
 > Pour le dépôt de vos collections, nous disposant d'un espace de dépôt
 > via ftp de 10 Go.
 >
 > Pour toute sorte de questions et pour valoriser vos production,
 > n'hésitez pas à me contacter et à faire suivre ce messages auprès 
d'autres collègues.
 >
 > A très bientôt pour un travail communautaire visant la valorisation
 > de vos productions scientifiques.
 >
 > --
 > Pier Luigi ROSSI
 > IRD
 > 32, avenue Henri Varagnat
 > 93140 Bondy
 > France
 >
 > Tel : 33 (0)1 48 02 56 96
 > Fax : 33 (0)1 48 47 30 88
 >

On 18/04/2011 11:47, Mauritius Institute of Health wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Greetings from Mauritius!
>
> The Mauritius Greenstone training workshop which was held at the
> Mauritius Institute of Health (MIH) with the support of UNESCO is now over.
>
> The workshop aims to train participants to use Greenstone to develop
> online and offline academic and health information sharing systems.
>
> The event took place from 11 to 15 April 2011 and the participants are
> from Mauritius, Seychelles, Rodrigues Islands, and Tanzania.
>
> For the implementation purpose of this project, we are now looking
> forward for hosting solutions to host the digital library.
>
> Grateful if anyone amongst you could kindly advise us on the
> availability of hosting solutions or could also share their experience.
>
> Your advice and suggestion would be most appreciated.
>
> Kind regards ,
>
> Sandraghassen
>
>
>
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-- 
                ************

                John B. Rose
                1 Bis rue des Châtre-Sacs
                92310 Sèvres, France

                Email: john.rose1 at free.fr
                Alternate email: johnrose at alumni.caltech.edu