The Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) software was developed by the New Zealand digital library project at the University of Waikato in the early 2000s, and provides a suite of open source software for building and distributing digital library collections. Greenstone is now developed and distributed in co-operation with Unesco and the Human Info non-governmental organisation. GSDL runs under Unix and Windows and aims to provide for ease of use as users can create files using varying formats, e.g. PDF, Postscript, MS-word or ftp. There are five stages in developing a digital library
using GSDL:
(1) Collect information.
(2) Describe the data.
(3) Configure the collection.
(4) Build the collection.
(5) View the collection.