You’re probably familiar with Project Gutenberg, the repository of more than 3,700 titles that range from Shakespeare, to Edgar Allan Poe, to William Blake. Project Gutenberg is an invaluable resource, not only because of the availability of text, but because of the searachability of the archive.
What you may not know is how the works are archived, and how the various search engines work. I was surprised to learn that the library archiving software used is by Greenstone Digital Library, a software developer from New Zealand. Not only is their software widely used by not-for-profit archives and libraries, it is also open-source.
The archiving software has been used for cataloguing, retrieving and storing repositories of music (Chopin at the University of Chicago), art, and historical documents, in addition to texts.
Greenstone runs on Windows and UNIX servers, and is fully documented in English, Spanish, French, and Russian. It offers complete interfaces in numerous other languages. I would say that installing and running Greenstone is not for the faint of heart, but it does seem to have a solid set of help and instruction manuals.
The URL is http://www.greenstone.org
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