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>Today's Topics:
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> 1. Re: Exploring the possibilities of GSDL (John Rowe)
> 2. Re: multilingual collection metadata again (Richard Managh)
> 3. RE: Copying of Collection on CD-ROM (Cao Minh Kiem)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:29:34 +1200
>From: John Rowe <johnr@dlconsulting.com>
>Subject: Re: [greenstone-users] Exploring the possibilities of GSDL
>To: greenstone-users@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz
>Cc: <greenstone-users@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz>
>Message-ID: <137C9608-CFB0-421D-A5FC-88E046D2CDC5@dlconsulting.com>
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> Hi Surinder,
>
> Greenstone scales very well, here's more detail:
> 1. The Computer Science Bibliography Collection contains
> more than 1
>million documents:
> http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=csbib
> DL Consulting has also worked on a new version of the National
>Library of New Zealand's Papers Past collection, however it is not
>publicly available yet. The collection it is comprised of one million
>images, of which 100,000 have text and word co-ordinates.
> 2. Not a prefect example, but we developed Ulukau: The Hawaiian
>Electronic Library and Greenstone's strong Unicode support shined. A
>lot of Hawaiian text contains characters like the Macron and Glottal
>stop. Greenstone supports Unicode inside and out which means out of
>the box support for both English and non-English character sets.
> 3. DL Consulting (the company I work for) commercially supports
>Greenstone. We've done work in Australia, North America, Europe and
>New Zealand. We don't have any support staff in India however. We
>specialise in Greenstone customisation and hosting, if you want a
>better overview of what we do check us out online at http://
>www.dlconsulting.com/ .
> 4. It depends on your data and it's structure. Are you able to give
>me more details about what you intent to store and how you would like
>to visualise the data? In general I can't foresee any issues with 2
>million documents of 15k each but sometimes things crop up.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>Cheers,
> John Rowe
>
>DL Consulting
>Greenstone Digital Library and Digitisation Specialists
>contact@dlconsulting.com
>www.dlconsulting.com
>
>
>On 26/03/2007, at 4:30 PM, Surinder Kumar wrote:
>
> > NIC is keen to take a project on Greenstone Digital Library. Data
> > is around 2 million docuemnts uments. It is in three language
> > (mixed mode documents). Each document is around 10-15k. We are
> > looking the possibilities of using GSDL. Please let us know the
> > followings:
> >
> > 1. Web sites which contain million of documents anywhere in the
> > globe.
> > 2. Websites which are using multilingual documents (Indic langauges)
> > 3. Commercial support services in India as well as abroad.
> > 4. What is your advise in handling voluminious data with the
> > current version of 2.72
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Surinder Kumar Gaba
> > Technical Director
> > Bibliographic Informatics Division
> > National Informatics Centre
> > A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road
> > New Delhi-110 003
> > Tel :24362359 (o)
> > :27865224 (r)
> > e-mail :suri@nic.in
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>Message: 2
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:30:31 +1200
>From: Richard Managh <richard@dlconsulting.co.nz>
>Subject: Re: [greenstone-users] multilingual collection metadata again
>To: greenstone-users@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz
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>Hi Benigno,
>
>Its not only possible, multilingual support is one of the main built in
>features of Greenstone.
>
>This support is available not only for metadata, but for any interface
>text visible in a greenstone collection.
>
>For each of your documents, you can have metadata like the following:
>
>title_en "title in english"
>title_fr "title in francais"
>title_es "title in espanol"
>
>And based on what the "l" cgi argument is set to, you can have
>greenstone display the relevent title.
>
>Heres a working example of this:
>
>The Ed Greevy Photograph Collection, on www.ulukau.org
>
>http://www.ulukau.org/apo/cgi-bin/edgreevy?c=edgreevy
>
>If you browse to an individual photo, for example
>http://www.ulukau.org/apo/cgi-bin/edgreevy?a=d&c=edgreevy&cl=CL5.1&d=D252
>
>You can use the language toggle links at the top right, either "english
>text", or "kikokikona hawai'i" to toggle between display of english
>metadata or hawaiian metadata.
>
>This collection has metadata added in two languages for the metadata
>items: title, caption, struggle.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Richard.
>
>--
>DL Consulting
>Greenstone Digital Library and Digitisation Specialists
>contact@dlconsulting.com
>www.dlconsulting.com
>
>
>
>Documentation / docip.org wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > and thanks to persons which send me solutions. Maybe I not clearly
> > explained my needs. The goal for us is to bring the possibility to
> > brownse and use the *same collection *in 3 / 4 languages (concerning
> > metadata)...so to switch from English to French and from French to
> > Spanish with the keywords in each language (the "right" metadata
> > language according to the language chosen by the user) . It's possible?
> >
> > Really thanks a lot in advance,
> >
> > Benigno Delgado
> > documentaliste resp.
> > doCIP
> > Centre de documentation, de recherche
> > et d'information des peuples autochtones
> > www.docip.org <http://www.docip.org>
> >
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>Message: 3
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:02:14 -0800
>From: "Cao Minh Kiem" <kiemcm@vista.gov.vn>
>Subject: RE: [greenstone-users] Copying of Collection on CD-ROM
>To: "'Renate Morgenstern'" <renatem@namweb.com.na>,
> <greenstone-users@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz>
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>Hi, Renate
>I think it is not very difficult.
>
>The procedure is like this:
>
>1. Install Greenstone software on your Webserver
>2. Set up GSDL to run with your Webserver
>3. Copy your colection from CDROM to the GSDL collection directory
>
>
>
>Normally, the collection directoy on CDROM is:
>D:gsdlcollectyour-collection
>
>The GSDL collection on server is: C:Program
>filesgreestonecollectyour-collection
>
>(It is assumed that C: is hard disk driver where you installed your GSDL, D:
>is CDROM drive, your-collection is directoy of your collection).
>
>
>
>I hope that will be of help.
>
>Regards
>
>Cao Minh Kiem
>
>
>
>
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>From: greenstone-users-bounces@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz
>[mailto:greenstone-users-bounces@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of
>Renate Morgenstern
>Sent: Monday, 26 March, 2007 2:39 PM
>To: greenstone-users@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz
>Subject: [greenstone-users] Copying of Collection on CD-ROM
>
>
>
>Good day,
>
>Is it possible to copy a Greenstone collection on CD-ROM to a live Web
>server - to make it easier for all user to access the collection instead fo
>working from the CD-OM?
>
>Thanks
>Renate
>
>
>
>
>Mrs. Renate Morgenstern
>P O Box 30664, Windhoek
>Tel/Fax: 242124 (H); 2063869 (W)
>University of Namibia Library
>Head: Technical Services and Systems
>Private Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia
>http://www.cds-isis.org.na <http://www.cds-isis.org.na/>
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