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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Software for managing textual collections


From: Tom Chance
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Software for managing textual collections
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:24:53 -0800 (PST)

that program certainly sounds ideal, and would solve
pretty much any coding problems there might be. All
we'd need to do is get it up and running with the
appropriate database and frontend!

--- "<address@hidden>"
<address@hidden> wrote: > 
> Hello
> 
> [Bias warning: I helped develop the GNU-licensed
> software I'm about to 
> evangelize.]
> 
> There is a software system called Greenstone
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/g
> reenstone/) from the New Zealand Digital Library
> (www.nzdl.org) which would 
> appear to be ideal for managing the text of this
> kind of project. Written in 
> perl (collection building and maintance
> functionality and C++ (runtime web 
> serving) it's fully GPL and runs on UNIX (the main
> development platform) and 
> Windows.
> 
> Greenstone includes the following features:
> *) functionality for mirroring documents from the
> web 
> *) functionality for full text indexing 
> *) document classification using the dublin core
> metadata standard 
> (http://purl.oclc.org/dc/) the most widespread
> metadata standard in the 
> digital library world
> *) automatic language identification
> *) automatic detection, extraction and markup of
> acronyms/dates/etc
> *) Unicode throughout
> *) An interface translated into multiple languages
> (Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, 
> English, French, Maori and Spanish)
> *) Both a web interface and a Corba interface
> *) Work on a Z39.50 interface is underway 
> 
> Greenstone imports the following document formats:
> *) Text (ASCII, UTF8)
> *) HTML
> *) PS/PDF
> *) Email
> *) JPEG, GIF, TIFF ... (support for images as
> documents is limited, support 
> for images embedded within textual documents is very
> complete)
> *) The above in the form of archives (zip, tar)
> and/or compressed documents 
> (zip, gzip, bzip).
> 
> There is a great collection of sample collections at
> www.nzdl.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --    stuart yeates <address@hidden> aka
> `loam'
> "Oh, havoc," cried Pooh, as he let slip the
> heffalumps of war.
> X-no-archive:yes
> 
> 
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