Building digital collections using Greenstone Digital Library software.

Greenstone Digital Library software is an open source system for building and publishing digital collections on the Internet. Since 2002, the Washington Research Library Consortium has created twenty-two digital collections using the Greenstone software. This case study describes why we chose the so...

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Publicado en:Internet Reference Services Quarterly Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 71 - 90
Autores principales: Zhang AB, Gourley D
Formato: case study pictorial Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2006
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
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Sumario:Greenstone Digital Library software is an open source system for building and publishing digital collections on the Internet. Since 2002, the Washington Research Library Consortium has created twenty-two digital collections using the Greenstone software. This case study describes why we chose the software, and how we customized it for our organizational requirements and integrated it into our digital library environment.