Submitted to:

Sir Waqar Ahmad

Submitted by:
Dania Yousaf

Roll no:
BLIF17M002
Greenstone digital library software

Digital library:
A digital library, digital repository, or digital collection, is an online
database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital
documents, or other digital media formats. Objects can consist of digitized content
like print or photographs, as well as originally produced digital content like word
processor files or social media posts.

Greenstone:

What is GSDL software?

The GSDL software is an open source Software available from the New Zealand.
Digital Library (www.nzdl.org) under the terms of GNU, general public library
license Oct 23, 2020

The software provides:

A way of organizing information and publishing it on the Web in the form of a
fully-searchable, metadata-driven digital resource. It can also be run in a non-
networked environment (standalone), operating from removable media such as a
USB Flash Drive and DVD.

Current version:
 3.09

Available from
http://www.greenstone.org
Suitable for:
Building, maintaing and describing digital library collections

History:

 1995- Digital library of computer science technical reports. Its

established by new Zealand digital library

 1997-decision to use the GPL(general public license)name ;

greenstone adopted ;work with human info NGO

 1998 Apr-first CD-ROM collection released

 1998 Aug-greenstone.org websites established

 1999 BBC –Collection established

 2000 Apr-greenstone mailing list started

 Nov –distribute software on source forge

 2002 Apr-development of greenstone 3

 Mar-official opening of interface of greenstone

 June-first UNESCO greenstone CD-ROM

 2003-A java development that become known as the interface

Documents formats:

 HTML
 PDF
 TEXT
 WORD
 E.MAIL
 BIBLIOGRAPIC