On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:55, Samuel Klein<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I imagine a final use case in which children do have hundreds of books on > their XO, not two or three; they are stored compressed, and uncompressed for > reading; and the Journal stores the record of reading a book, but not the > uncompressed book itself.
What I would like to see one day is all the $HOME contents exposed in the object view, with or without hierarchical view. The actions related with books would be exposed in the actions view: reading, sharing, etc. > When a stick or local library with thousands or tens of thousands of books > is available, it could be searched; a collection of books to be copied to > your XO identified and named; and this collection added to your XO (with the > name you just gave your collection added as a tag). > > If the Journal could implement Calibre-style views, I don't see why it > couldn't function as a library organizer. Aleksey has done work in this direction and I expect it to land in the Journal during the 0.88 timeframe. Regards, Tomeu > SJ > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Jim Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Scotty, >> >> I've been thinking about your project and have some ideas. These may >> be similar to what Sayamindu has already proposed. >> >> You want to distribute a couple of thousand books from Internet >> Archive without using the Internet. >> >> As I have said before having over a thousand files on a USB drive >> isn't going to work. The Journal isn't equipped to deal with that. >> You had mentioned (I think) the idea of creating content bundles for >> this stuff, but content bundles as they exist now aren't going to work >> either. With a content bundle the entire contents of the bundle get >> unpacked and stored somewhere, and on the XO there isn't room for >> anything that isn't going to be used. You don't want to install 818 >> books about "conduct of life" on a kid's laptop. You want to give him >> something that will let him browse through all of those books and pick >> one or two to install in his Journal. >> >> One way to make these files manageable would be to collect them by >> theme or topic and put the collected books in zip files. The zip >> files would contain the books themselves, the GIF files showing book >> covers, and one file containing information about the books, possibly >> in the Dublin Core format, more likely in some subset thereof. In the >> Internet Archive database there are a lot of fields that would be >> useful if filled in, but more often than not are not. >> >> If you had these collections prepared you could write an Activity to >> browse their contents (using the Dublin Core file and the images). >> The student would insert a thumb drive containing one or more of these >> collections into his XO and fire up an Activity that would read the >> Dublin file and create a scrolling list of the titles, including cover >> images, title, author, etc. The student could sort this list by >> title, author, etc. then select a book he wants and create an entry >> for it in the Journal. You could prepare sticks which had the >> collections on them as well as this Activity. That way everything >> could be done through sneakernet. >> >> The Activity would be a lot like Get Internet Archive Books except it >> would work offline and would show the book covers. >> >> James Simmons >> >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Jim, >> > I see all your points and they are good ones. I'm not sure if there's a >> > "target" country at this point, but I think we got our list from OLPC. >> > Not >> > even positive about that. It's posted on our blog site, >> > http://sixes.net/rdc2009/iacl-collection-for-xo. I'm pretty sure it's >> > all >> > English. It's a good idea to distribute a preconfigured server boot to >> > linux >> > CD and relatively easy. We should definately try to do that for >> > US/Developed >> > countries. Yes, PCs that could do this are in landfills, and using a >> > system >> > like this is a no brainer in any american or english classroom, probably >> > in >> > most developed countries there's at least an old pc w/ a network card >> > laying >> > about. However, my idea of using an XO was not to make it a permanent >> > server. I just thought the teacher would have one most likely and that >> > one >> > could be configured to temporarily serve the library, then reboot back >> > to >> > sugar for other purposes when done. Probably a bad idea, but then again >> > some >> > of the OLPC folks have already looked into it at least somewhat - see >> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS-on-XO. Beauty of this is even in the bush >> > our >> > solution might still work. >> > Scotty Auble >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
