The Greenstone digital library specialists
Award winning DL Consulting (DLC) are the world's leading suppliers of
commercial consulting, customization, support, maintenance and
hosting services for the Greenstone digital library software
suite.
DLC provide Greenstone-based web delivery systems to some of
the largest newspaper digitization projects in the world, as
well as to many other projects delivering a wide-range of
diverse digital documents. If your organisation is working on a
digitization project, to be delivered online or on CD-ROM/DVD,
you need to consider Greenstone, and DLC.
Why choose Greenstone?
- Greenstone is open source software,
licensed under the Gnu Public License (GPL). An increasing
number of organizations are now recognizing the considerable
benefits of open source
software over traditional proprietary software licensing.
- Greenstone is mature, high quality software, and has been
under constant development for over ten years.
- Greenstone is produced by the world-renowned digital
libraries research group at the University of Waikato in New
Zealand. This research group is based in the Computer
Science department at the University of Waikato, but
comprises contributors from universities throughout the
world. The group is one of the oldest and best respected in
this field of research. Former contributors to the group have
gone on to succeed in a number of related fields, including
as key technical staff with Google.
- Greenstone is constantly being improved by a community of
users, as well as by a software development team at the
University of Waikato, and by the software development team
at DLC.
Why choose DLC?
“Why should I choose DLC, if I can download the
Greenstone software for free?”
Many individuals and organizations have successfully
built their own digital libraries using Greenstone. However,
for institutional and enterprise customers there are compelling
reasons to seek our services. We bring a breadth of knowledge,
experience and professionalism to your project in the
following areas:
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Featured Project
The National Library of New Zealand’s Papers Past collection contains nearly 600,000 pages (6.3 million articles) of digitised text. This makes it the most comprehensive, world-wide available, archive of New Zealand’s history — and it will continue to grow.
“As far as we're concerned, if you're interested in anything dealing with digital libraries, then you should contact DL Consulting. They are, quite simply, the very best in the field.”
Bob Stauffer, Ulukau Project Manager.
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