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Greenstone Digital Library Software

Greenstone Digital Library Software
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Factsheet for more information. The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries.

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About – Official Website of Koha Library Software Koha is the first free software library automation package. In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of users collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. Full-featured ILS. In use worldwide in libraries of all sizes, Koha is a true enterprise-class ILS with comprehensive functionality including basic and advanced options. Koha includes modules for acquisitions, circulation, cataloging, serials management, authorities, flexible reporting, label printing, multi-format notices, offline circulation for when Internet access is not available, and much more. New 7 Alternatives to Google Analytics With many (maybe most libraries) getting more virtual use than in-person, face-to-face use, it is incumbent on us to get really good at measuring and counting and understanding virtual use. 7 Alternatives to Google Analytics What alternatives are there? “Google Analytics fulfills different needs for different people, so your choice of alternatives will really be governed by what you are actually looking for from a solution.

Visualising Urban Geographies Visualising Urban Geographies is a project that provides mapping tools for historians. It enables them to use digitized and geo-referenced maps in conjunction with historical information based on either addresses or districts. This spatial dimension enriches historical understanding and analysis, and can also be applied to other subject areas. The focus on Edinburgh is deliberate: to explore the potential of the mapping tools where there is available data and a wide range of suitable maps. ethnosproject Updates 12/30/11: Added Archon, Kete, and Open Exhibits. 5/12/12: Added DAITSS, DPSP, HOPPLA, and RODA. 6/8/12: Added Vannotea & Indigenous Knowledge Management Software. 5/13/13: Added ELAN. In honor of the new year, I thought I’d offer a list of (now 29) free and open source digital curation, asset management & community archiving systems that may be of interest to communities (Indigenous or not) seeking to sustain and share words, images, videos, sounds, collections, etc. These tools are free in that you can download the source files onto your computer without cost. To make them useful as tools, however, you will need to have a domain name registered and hosted with an Internet Service Provider – and in general, those do cost money. A few of the items listed below are listed “as is”, by which I mean that they may no longer be in active development or may be of limited functionality.

Aaron Swartz's Work, Computer Crime Law, and "The Internet's Own Boy" It’s been more than a year since Aaron Swartz’s tragic death, and now Aaron’s life is the subject of a new documentary, The Internet’s Own Boy, directed by Brian Knappenberger. The documentary has received much acclaim and deservedly so. It tells the story of a political activist and innovator who put theory into practice, always experimenting and building new tools and methodologies to animate his theory of change.

News & Opinions COUNTER JR1 R3 to R4 conversion template Feb 11, 2015 | Posted in COUNTER | By admin A template that provides an easy way to convert a Release 3 JR1 COUNTER report to Release 4 format has been developed by Oliver Pesch of EBSCO Information Services. It can be found in the Useful Links section of the Usus website. About our Map images In our 'Map images' resource you can access and view over 86,000 maps as high-resolution, colour, zoomable images. The maps date between 1560 and 1961 and relate primarily to Scotland. We also have maps of areas beyond Scotland, including maps of England and Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgium. Find by Place The easiest way of finding material relating to any particular location is to find by place. Search using a map of Scotland, by place name, or by county and parish name.

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz : Brian Knappenberger First off I'd like to apologize for the drunken rant we created after a lot of partying. Im sorry for the people I pissed off or offended, and my family as well... I truly am.

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