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Metadata Management in Greenstone Workshop

The document describes steps from a UNESCO Greenstone workshop on adding and using metadata and snapshots in a digital library collection. It outlines creating a new photo image collection, adding Dublin Core metadata like title and description, customizing the collection interface and search features, and using techniques like setting thumbnail sizes and limiting the number of documents built. The workshop took place in November 2003.

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Metadata Management in Greenstone Workshop

The document describes steps from a UNESCO Greenstone workshop on adding and using metadata and snapshots in a digital library collection. It outlines creating a new photo image collection, adding Dublin Core metadata like title and description, customizing the collection interface and search features, and using techniques like setting thumbnail sizes and limiting the number of documents built. The workshop took place in November 2003.

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UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Lab 3: Adding and using metadata: Snapshots

Course material prepared by Greenstone Digital Library Project University of Waikato, New Zealand and National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

New collection based on existing image-e collection

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Copy the sample photo images

Building the photo image collection

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Preview the new photo image collection

Browse the new photo image collection

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

View metadata extracted from Ascent.jpg

Adding a metadata set to the collection

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Choose dublin.mds (Dublin Core)

Entering dc.Title field for Ascent.jpg

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Customizing the collection

The design panel

The Design panels Format Features zone

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Changing the format statement to take advantage of the new metadata

The resulting change in the collection

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Configuring arguments for ImagePlug (set thumbnailsize to 50)

Thumbnail preview now only 50 pixels wide

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Add metadata to decribe Ascent.jpg

Double-click on documents to view them

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Modifying the format statement to use the new dc.Description metadata

Previewing the effect of the modified format statement

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Adding a new classifier for browsing Description metadata

Setting options for the classifier

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Previewing collection with new descriptions browse feature

New descriptions browse feature

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Adding searching index based on dc.Description

Using searchable index built on dc.Description

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Search descriptions for mention of autumn

Controlling the building process

Using maxdocs to limit number of documents built into collection

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Collection now builds much more quickly

but it only includes 3 documents

November 2003

UNESCO Greenstone workshop

NZDL/NCSI

Building with verbosity set to 5

November 2003

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