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Margaret Graham
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From: Bob Fields [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:27 PM
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Subject: Event: How to build a digital library
This may be of interest to members of the IR list.
Middlesex University Interaction Design Centre presents A Workshop on How to
Build a Digital Library
26 November 2002-10-09
Alexandra Palace
A 1-day workshop and tutorial on how to build a digital library is to be
held by the Interaction Design Centre of Middlesex University. It will be
held at Alexandra Palace in North London on Friday 29 November 2002. Further
details on price and how to register are at
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc/dlw.htm
The workshop will be suitable for novices with no previous experience of
Digital Libraries as well as more experienced practitioners and researchers.
It will be based on the Greenstone suite of Software. Attendees should bring
a laptop computer on which the Greenstone software will be installed.
Attendees are also encouraged to bring collections of digital documents or
other digital material materials that will form the content of the libraries
they will build during the workshop.
The tutorial will be presented by Greenstone developers Ian Witten, David
Bainbridge and George Buchanan.
Provisional Programme
9:30 - 10:30 registration and welcome coffee
10:30 - 12:00 opening session
12:00 - 1:00 installation of Greenstone software on personal laptops.
1:00 - 2:00 lunch in the beergarden
2:00 - 3:30 introduction Greenstone software
3:30 - 4:00 coffee break
4:00 - 5:30 build your own digital library
5:30 - 6:30 closing session
Registration
The attendance fee will be £95 for those registering before 26 October and
£125 thereafter. To register, complete the registration form at
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc/dlw.htm,include a cheque for the fee
and send it by post to the address indicated.
Greenstone
Greenstone is a suite of software which has the ability to serve digital
library collections and build new 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 distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the
Human Info NGO. It is open-source software, available from
http://greenstone.org under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The
New Zealand Digital Library website contains numerous example collections,
all created with theGreenstone software, which are publicly available for
you to peruse. They exemplify various searching and browsing options, and
include collections in Arabic, Chinese, French, Maori, and Spanish, as well
as English. There are also some music collections.
Contact
For more information about the workshop contact:
Elke Duncker
Phone 020 8411 4261
Email [log in to unmask]
Interaction Design Centre
Middlesex University
Bramley Road
London N14 4YZ, UK
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Middlesex University
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