This document provides a tutorial on how to develop a digital library using the Greenstone open source software (OSS). It discusses what digital information is, the purpose of digital libraries, and walks through the steps to create a new collection in Greenstone including gathering content, enriching metadata, designing search types, indexes, cross-collection searching and browsing classifiers. It emphasizes properly linking metadata fields to collection data and provides tips for each step.

1. How to develop Digital Library using Green Stone (oss) @ Ashok Kumar Satapathy

4. LET’S START THE SESSION Tutorial for GS

5. Developer side ( for input data ) Click on Greenstone Librarian Interface. Tutorial for GS

6. Start your ‘NEW’ collection & Specify collection Title & Description of content. Tutorial for GS

7. ‘ Gather’ from Local Filespace ( Hard Drives ) Tutorial for GS

8. ‘ Enrich’ Define Dublin Core Metadata  Tutorial for GS

15. ‘ Design’ Browsing Classifiers : It is so simple, if we properly linked the metadata with the data field then our purpose will be solved. Tutorial for GS

17. See the result… Tutorial for GS Get your collection

19. Tips… Tutorial for GS Enrich : Assign metadata to the files in your collection. Example : dc Title : Title of the collection dc Creator : Author, Org., Inst., etc. dc Subject & key : Only keywords dc Description : About the collection

20. Tips… Tutorial for GS Enrich : dc Contributor : Only Author dc Date : Date of the collection dc Format : Format of the file dc Source : From where dc Language : Which language As per requirement we can add / delete the metadata fields.

22. Tips… Tutorial for GS Select classifier to add => Date List => Argument is => metadata-dc date, short dc date, bottonname-Date ( for date ) Select classifier to add => AZcompact List => Argument is => metadata-dc Contributor, bottonname-contributor’s ( for contributor “Author” ) Select classifier to add => List => metadata - dc format, short - dc format bottonname-Format ( for Format )

23. The End Tutorial for GS