The following semester-long course is being offered at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York in Fall 2006. General information about the school is available at http://qcpages.qc.edu/GSLIS/ . For more information please contact the GSLIS at: (718) 997-3790 Fax (718) 997-3797 [log in to unmask] -------------------------- GSLIS 790: Managing Digital Collections With Greenstone Professor Thomas T. Surprenant Prerequisities: Digital Imaging or Permission of Instructor Prospective students should be familiar with digital scanning, Dublin Core metadata and digital best practices Goal: The goal of this course is to provide hands-on experience in the creation, management of digital collections using the Greenstone Open Source Software. Cited below is the open source CD-ROM that will be provided to each student. Topics Overview What does Greenstone Do? Open Source Pros & Cons A tour of the Greenstone Web Site Platforms and Installation Documentation and Help User’s Guide Installer’s Guide From Paper to Collection Developer’s Guide Installation & Tour Installation of Greenstone & ImagMagick on a Windows System Students will install on GSLIS Computer Lab Machines Students also have the option to install on their home PCs Updating a Greenstone Installation Removal Reinstallation Building Collections Collection Design & Branding The Librarian Interface Building a Small Collection Building Collections from HTML, Word/PDF, Images Creating a Greenstone CD-ROM Metadata Creation of Thesaurus Adding Metadata Editing Browsing Classifiers, Search Indexes Scanned Image Collections Web Interfaces – Downloads and Links Building a Collection Exporting Collections Creating a readable CD-ROM Customizing Under the Hood: Collection Configuration File Customizing with Macros Personalizing Your Home Page Different Interface Languages Examples from Other Databases For more information please contact the GSLIS at: (718) 997-3790 Fax (718) 997-3797 [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>