Greenstone3

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 3.03

Notes:

 New Windows, GNU/Linux, and Source distributions available:
 Greenstone3 v3.03

 The Windows, GNU/Linux and Source distributions of Greenstone v3.03 
 are now available for download from our sourceforge page:
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone3

 Greenstone3 is a redesign and reimplementation of the Greenstone digital
 library software. The original Greenstone project (Greenstone2) is a
 complete digital library creation, management, and distribution package
 created and distributed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project. This
 is available from sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenstone3/.
 Greenstone3 aims to improve the flexibility, modularity and 
 extensibility of the Greenstone2 runtime system. It is written in Java, and runs as a 
 Java servlet. It consists of a network of modules communicating with XML.
 Greenstone3 retains the Greenstone2 collection building system.
 The binary distributions now consist of self-installing InstallShield
 binaries. Download and run to install. Ant is still used for running and 
 configuring Greenstone3. This comes bundled in the distribution.

 Major changes for the Greenstone3 runtime (compared to v3.02) are listed
 below. Following that is a summary of changes to the collection building 
 system (compared to Greenstone2 version 2.72).

 New features:
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 -OAI support: 
     the documentation can be find at http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/OAI_support	
 -Remote buildling:
     the documentation can be find at http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/Remote_Greenstone3
 -external link support:
      this is equivalent to Greenstone2's external link support
 -The Greenstone3 Installer will install a bundled Java Runtime Environment 
  if Java is not found on the user's machine.  
  
 Important changes:
 ------------------
 -only Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required to run Greenstone3
 -synchronize the document retrieving and searching process to fix the 
  crash problem caused by concurrent accesses   	
 -The Greenstone3 collection config file can be edited in GLI directly, 
  Greenstone2->Greenstone3 collection config file conversion is no longer needed
 -many more fixed bugs

 Collection building changes:
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 Greenstone v3.03 uses Greenstone2 collection building and GLI. This 
 release uses version 2.74 code which has the following changed compare to 2.72
 - MetadataXMLPlug can no longer be removed
 - Interface improvements in GLI
 - New 'NoText' metadata can be used to suppress the dummy text
 - Download plug for downloading from a Mediawiki website from GLI.
 - Can now double click an index to bring up the 'Edit Index' window.
 - Moved mg, mgpp, lucene and unac into the indexers branch
 - New CONENTdmPlug plugin for collections in the CONTENTdm digital library
 - New option for GenericList: partition_name_length, many thanks to Jens Wille. 
   New option for GenericList: sort_using_unicode_collation, which uses the 
   Unicode::Collate module to sort Unicode values better (eg. e with  acute
   is sorted with the other e values, not after everything else).
 - New RecentDocumentsList classifer for classifying documents based on the lastmodified metadata.


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