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i. Search results formatting availableii. Homepage customization availablee. Collection administrationi. Adding new documents (batch operation)ii. Usage monitoringiii. Securityf. Interoperabilityi. Any Greenstone collection can be exported to DSpaceii. Any DSpace collection can be imported into Greenstoneiii. Any collection can be exported to METS (in the Greenstone METSProfile) and Greenstone can ingest documents in METS formg. Customizable, extensiblei. New document and metadata formats can be accommodated bywriting ‗plug-ins‘ in Perlii. New metadata browsing structures can be implemented by writing‗classifiers.‘iii. User interface can be customized using ‗macros‘ written in asimple macro languageiv. CORBA protocol allows agents (e.g., written in Java) to use all thefacilities associated with document collections3. Architecturea. Receptionisti. Provide user interfaceii. User input acceptediii. Page generationiv. Send to appropriate collection serverb. Collection serveri. Collection content managementii. Search/filter informationiii. Return resultsiv. Handle multiple collectionsc. Metadata supplied by communities4. Content typesa. Textb. Multimedia (image, audio, video)5. Standardsa. Dublin Core metadata for digital itemsb. Z39.50 client-server protocol for searching and retrieving informationfrom remote computer databases.c. Support for OAI-PMH both as a client and a serverd. Unicode for multiple language support6. Technologies useda. Greenstone runs on all versions of Windows and Unix/Linux and Mac OS-X.b. Apache HTTP server