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Greenstone has two separate interactive interfaces, the Reader interface and the Librarian interface. End users access the digital library through the Reader interface, which operates within a web browser.

(PDF) Application of Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) Software in Newspapers Clippings. Computer Science and Engineering.

The Librarian interface is a Java-based graphical user interface that makes it easy to gather material for a collection (downloading it from the web where necessary), enrich it by adding metadata, design the searching and browsing facilities that the collection will offer the user, and build and serve the collection.

It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and has been developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO in Belgium.

The software provides a way of organizing information and publishing it on the Web in the form of a fully-searchable, metadata-driven digital resource. It can also be run in a non-networked environment (standalone), operating from removable media such as a USB Flash Drive and DVD.

In GSDL the server (library.exe) uses PERL-scripts to create web-pages and forms to deal with the library of documents and its indexes. The documents are stored in their native format as such (PDF, DOC, HTML, XML etc.) which are converted ('imported') as XML in a collection with their text-only content.

In GSDL the server (library.exe) uses PERL-scripts to create web-pages and forms to deal with the library of documents and its indexes. The documents are stored in their native format as such (PDF, DOC, HTML, XML etc.) which are converted ('imported') as XML in a collection with their text-only content.