When I was in library school I installed Greenstone to play with it and write about it for an assignment. It was okay, but I was expecting more. Earlier this month I learned that there is a new research version of Greenstone - Greenstone v.3 that will be a complete rewrite of the old version. It will be

a complete redesign and reimplementation of the original Greenstone digital library software (Greenstone2). When complete, it will retain all the advantages of Greenstone2 - for example, it will be multilingual, multiplatform, and highly configurable. It incorporates all the features of the existing system, and is backwards compatible: that is, it can build and run existing collections without modification. Written in Java, it is structured as a network of independent modules that communicate using XML: thus it runs in a distributed fashion and can be spread across different servers as necessary. This modular design increases the flexibility and extensibility of Greenstone.

This from the official site. I’ll be interested to see where this new version goes.

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