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

[Hector Facundo Arena]

Seems nice. I Would like to hear your opinion guys...

El Miércoles 17 Enero 2001 20:22, escribiste:
> Hello
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> [Bias warning: I helped develop the GNU-licensed software I'm about to
> evangelize.]
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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).
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> There is a great collection of sample collections at www.nzdl.org
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