On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Mike Dawson<[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > In Afghanistan we wanted to have a system that would make it as simple > as possible to make a relatively large, replicated digital library > accessible locally on the school server (external bandwidth here is > about 64kbps per school). In addition we wanted something that was > very fast and easy to add content to (e.g. not having to type meta > data again hundreds of times). > > We looked at Greenstone in particular - but that was relatively > complex to setup and also would have been tricky to automate adding > content to it / distributing it. Moodle is really designed more for > class / learning management. > > The system that we have made is based on Java / XSL - it makes digital > libraries a breeze, not requiring any kind of database etc on the > server: > > I have made a wiki page at: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SimpleDigitalLibraryIndex >
Thanks so much for this - I was looking for this sort of thing :-) (I had Python in mind, but I think I can live with Java for this ;-). Let me know when you put up the code - I'll love to take a look at it. Thanks once again, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
