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
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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
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