Greenstone (http://www.greenstone.org/)

Greenstone is an open source software suite for creating digital collections produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project. It has been popular over the past decade both in the United States and internationally. One of Greenstone’s interesting features is the ability to export/save digital collections to CD/DVDs.

System Requirements:

• Java Run-time Environment (1.4 or above)
• ImageMagick
• C++ compiler (Visual Studio or GCC)
• Perl

Greenstone Tutorials

• Tutorial Exercises
• Greenstone Digital Library Video Tutorials

Sample Digital Libraries Using Greenstone

• Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital Archives
• Greater Cincinnati Memory Project
• Papers Past

Omeka (http://omeka.org/)

Omeka is Linux-based, open source, web-publishing platform used by many digital libraries, museums, and archives.

System Requirements:

• Linux operating system
  • Server configuration suggestions
• Apache HTTP server (with mod_rewrite enabled)
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater
• PHP scripting language version 5.2.4 or greater (with mysqli and exif extensions installed)
  • PHP version 5.3+ or the Fileinfo extension is highly recommended
• ImageMagick image manipulation software (for resizing images)

Omeka Tutorials

• Managing Omeka
• Screencast Video Tutorials

Sample Digital Libraries Using Omeka

• Inventing Europe
• Lincoln at 200
• Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

CollectiveAccess (http://www.collectiveaccess.org/)

CollectiveAccess is free open source software for managing and publishing museum and archival collections.

System Requirements:

• Linux operating system
  • Server configuration suggestions
• Apache HTTP server (with mod_rewrite enabled)
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater
• PHP scripting language version 5.3.6 or greater
• ImageMagick image manipulation software (for resizing images)

CollectiveAccuess Tutorials

• CollectiveAccess Tutorials

Sample Projects Using CollectiveAccess

• Sample Projects