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Sorry that I haven’t posted an update in a while, I keep forgetting to do it. Good news though, we are now in the final testing stages of Greenstone 3 and should hopefully have a 3.05 release candidate ready before the end of the week. We’ve also got some exciting things planned for 3.06 as […]
Over the week, have been working on the activate.pl script (and things that it needs). The details are at http://trac.greenstone.org/ticket/825
For the latest changes made today, need to retest these changes against GS3 on Windows.
Still need to test the entire process on Linux.
At the start of last week, finished off the task of the GS3 “debuginfo” button that now appears next to the login button.
The Greenstone tutorial xml files can now include a MajorVersion element with number attribute to specify if the instructions are for GS3 or GS2 and will get processed by the XSLT to […]
While perusing my morning sources, I stumbled upon this research presentation by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. It presents data from a research project centered on the rise of E-readers and who, how, and why the …Read More
Here is a good beginning primer on what linked data is, and how libraries can benefit from using it. Linked Data in Libraries View more presentations from Carl Hess
In a Huffington Post blog post today, Ramon Nuez discusses four reasons businesses should use crowdsourcing. There are a number of benefits that crowdsourcing offers — here are 4: A workforce which is cloud-based and is available whenever and wherever …Read More
<gslib:langfrag> was to replace a whole lot of XSLT statements instantiating a javascript array in header.xsl. It took a bit of messing about, but util.xsl now calls a new Java method to generate the Javascript array declaration and initiation, and this called from document.xsl and documentbasket.xsl (instead of header.xsl) using the new <gslib:langfrag> element.
The gs2-library […]
In February we posted about the difference in approach to crowdsourcing text correction at two large historical newspaper websites, the NLA’s Trove collection, and the National Library of Finland’s Digital Koot. And we summarized Rose Holley’s assertion that games and …Read More