Classmates: Greenstone?

I hope people read this...have you gotten Greenstone working? On what platform? Are your group members able to access your server remotely, or are you getting together in person to assemble your collection?

I'm able to get it to run on OSX and on Windows, but I can't quite get the remote part (i.e. Apache) worked out and I'm wondering if anybody had any luck with this.

Remote Access software for OSX

http://www.pure-mac.com/remote.html

Greenstone 3 notes

These are notes for myself....

"An error has occurred on the remote Greenstone server while performing this operation: Empty gliserver URL: please set this in Preferences before continuing."

"Unable to get the list of classifiers using classinfo.pl -listall"

Term project links

Digital library software:

• DSpace
• EPrints
• Fedora
• Greenstone

Articles re: digital library software

• Some considerations when selecting digital library software
• Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface

Class notes - week 4

RE: Assignment 2: Yes, 3D objects OK. Picasa OK.
RE: Term project: ContentDM is OK if OK with group.

BUBL Catalogue of Internet Resources

Scorpion

The Scorpion Open Source project offers software that implements a system for automatically classifying Web-accessible text documents. Scorpion is intended for use by investigators who have a machine-readable subject classification scheme or thesaurus and wish to incorporate it into an automatic classification system.

CyberStacks

CyberStacks(sm) is a centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant World Wide Web (WWW) and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme. Resources are organized under one or more relevant Library of Congress class numbers and an associated publication format and subject description. The majority of resources incorporated within its collection are monographic or serial works, files, databases or search services. All of the selected resources in CyberStacks(sm) are full-text, hypertext, or, hypermedia, and of a research or scholarly nature.

Dublin Core

Using Dublin Core: The Elements

Mountain West Digital Library - a DL that uses Dublin Core

MODS - a derivative of MARC21 using XML - uses syntax instead of numbers

MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk

Social Bookmarking in Plain English video

DCMI Social Tagging Community

Another muddy point re: term project

Is ContentDM considered open source software for the purposes of the term project? I'm going to be working with it for another course.

According to the ContentDM site, "While most users run the CONTENTdm software “out-of-the box,” it also has an API that allows for custom development. The open architecture supports extensions and the Web interface is fully customizable."

And if it isn't - could we use it instead of open source software? Believe me, I have nothing against open source software - my laptop runs on Ubuntu Linux, my browser of choice is Firefox, and I use GIMP on a semi-regular basis. But uniting the two assignments (working with ContentDM for LIS 2405, producing a prototype digital library for LIS 2670) would be very efficient.

About Scott

As I promised in class, here's a little about me and what I could contribute to a group for the term project.

My name is Scott Nicolson. I'm in my third semester in MLIS @ Pitt. I hold a BA in History and a BS in Applied Computer Science from California University of Pennsylvania. My liberal arts background includes study of Spanish and German, as well as a lot of history, and I think I'm a decent writer / editor. I can put on a decent presentation, too. As for computing, I'm well-versed in Windows XP (not Vista, though - ugh), Mac OS X, and two flavors of Linux (Debian and Ubuntu). I've also got background in web design and development. I've taken the Library and Archival Preservation course here @ Pitt, too.

I do have issues with time management and anxiety - I'll admit that up front. I also don't have any bright ideas for a term project.

Any takers?

Class: 8 September 2008

Administrative stuff

• Readings notes and submission deadline
• Pre-class reading, so week 3 Friday 11:59pm submit week 4 reading notes in the blog,
• No need to send email
• Muddiest Points, and submission deadline
• Post-class muddiest points, so week 3 Friday 11:59pm submit week 3 muddiest points. If you do not have, you can just say I do not have.

Term Project

• Task:
  
• Propose, plan and develop a prototype digital collection, using Open Source software (e.g., Greenstone, DSpace, Fedora, Ruby on Rails).

• Requirements:
• Address the need of a group of real users
  
• Include at least three collections and at least one other media format in addition to text (minimally 25 documents total).

European Library Treasures Web Exhibition
-This might be helpful for my History of Ireland course....

About DSpace
-See also DSpace Visual Diagram (PDF)

FEDORA
-Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture

NCSTRL
-Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library

Open Archival Institute

FreeLib - Peer to Peer Digital Library Project

Grid computing & digital libraries

• Beowulf.org

• “The Benefits of Grid Networks--Digital Libraries” By Roy Tennant — March 15, 2005 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA509610.html

• Lorcan Dempsey's weblog “WorldCat in your pocket” http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000544.html
  

“Hyperdatabases: An Infrastructure for the Information Space.” http://www.springerlink.com/content/dg2uxvpnj3k3cec2/

Digital Libraries that use Greenstone:

• http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library
• http://www.greenstone.org/examples

Digital Library that uses DSpace