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Greenstone Blog: Sam’s Greenstone Blog 27/1/2012

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:02:48 +0000

This week I have been touching up on a few unfinished features. One of these was the mapping features that I can’t remember whether or not I have written about before. Basically, if your documents have coordinate information (i.e. latitude and longitude information) we now have a feature that will map those documents on a […]

Greenstone Blog: Sam’s Greenstone Blog 20/1/2012

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:16:25 +0000

One of the things we have been doing this week is deciding the best way to handle user authentication in Greenstone 3. We have a very basic system in place at the moment but we would like something more robust. At the moment we are investigating using the authentication system in the web-server we use […]

Greenstone Blog: Sam’s Greenstone Blog 13/1/2012

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:10:09 +0000

My time this week has mostly been spent helping out one the masters students here in our lab. I have been helping her develop the ability to tag photos and text in the Greenstone 3 collection she is working on. This has resulted in us enhancing our Greenstone 3 (and also Greenstone 2) CGI capabilities […]

Greenstone Blog: Sam’s Greenstone Blog 6/1/2012

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:13:36 +0000

Happy new year to all Greenstone users! We’re back at work now after a couple of weeks off over the holiday period and already we’ve got a few new things lined up.
In Greenstone we try very hard to make the modification of the look and feel of collections as easy as possible. Unfortunately this often […]