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15. Return to the collection (by clicking its icon), and click <help>. This gives more
information about how to access the collection.

16. Click <preferences>. This takes you to a page where you can change some of the settings.
17. Now explore the collection by navigating freely around it. Click liberally: all images that
appear on the screen are clickable. If you hold the mouse stationary over an image, most
browsers will soon pop up a brief “mouse-over” message that tells you what will happen if
you click. Experiment! Choose common words like “the” or “and” to search for—that
should evoke some response, and nothing will break. (Note: unlike many search systems,
Greenstone indexes all words, including these ones.)
Exercise: Read the Help page; then answer these questions
 What does this collection contain?
 Name five ways to navigate to a target document in this collection.
 How many documents in the collection are written by Erik Duval?
 Compare the number of times the words “he” and “she” appear in the collection.
 How many times does the word “metadata” appear in titles? In the text itself?
 What’s the difference between a some and an all search?
 What does “MODS” stand for?
 How do you switch the interface from English to Russian? Does it stay in Russian when
you go to the Greenstone home page?
 Find a search term that yields different results depending on whether you have ignore word
endings or whole word must match set on the Preferences page.
 What’s the difference between Graphical and Textual interface format (on the Preferences
page)?
Exercise: Use the How to build a digital library collection to answer these questions.
 How many sentences contain the word education?
 What story from the School Journal collection is featured in the book?
 How many acronyms used in the book begin with the word Standard?
 What does tapu mean?
 How many times does the word library appear? The word libraries?
 How many times does Library appear with an initial capital letter?
 How many times does some derivative of the word form appear?
 Name an English poem that was probably written in about 1000 A.D.
 Who is Alan Kay?
 On what page is the first mention of some aspect of Chinese culture?
Most of these questions would be rather difficult to answer from the printed book.

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