On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM, sulochan<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:03 -0500, David Farning wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Rabi Karmacharya<[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:50 AM, David Farning <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Rabi Karmacharya<[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > The books (and many more) can be accessed by children at the OLPC pilot >> >> > schools in Nepal through the e-library that OLE Nepal has created. The >> >> > e-library is hosted in school servers in each pilot school, and is >> >> > updated >> >> > regularly. The e-library can also be accessed on the Internet at >> >> > www.pustakalaya.org (pustakalaya is library in Nepali). The e-library >> >> > was >> >> > launched in February 2009, and OLE Nepal continues its efforts to expand >> >> > the >> >> > content by contacting various organizations, publishers and writers to >> >> > make >> >> > their works available to children all over the world. >> >> >> >> Rabi, >> >> >> >> That look great! >> >> >> >> What are you using for a content management system? I am interested in >> >> setting up library.sugalabs.org for testing and then creating some >> >> wiki pages so deployments can benefit from your work. >> >> >> >> david >> > >> > David. >> > >> > Our pustakalaya is built on Fedora Commons with Fez in the front end. It is >> > a relatively static library, and we do not have the facilities for >> > teachers, >> > students, and users to upload their works in the library. Right now all the >> > uploading and management is done by the staff at OLE Nepal. >> > >> > Our primary goal was to create a repository of education materials (books, >> > videos, maps, etc) that children can access easily at their schools. As you >> > may know, there is a dearth of such materials in many parts of Nepal, and >> > teachers and students have barely any reading materials outside of their >> > course books. We do plan to add rating and uploading facilities in future, >> > but right now, our focus is on adding more content to expand our >> > collections. >> > >> > You can direct technical questions to our library system developer, >> > Sulochan >> > (cc'ed above). >> > >> > Cheers. >> > -Rabi >> > >> >> Hello Sulochan. Nice to meet you! >> >> Last week DSD added some interesting thoughts to a discussion we were >> having on updating activities. >> >> Currently, on a project level, we are using activities.sugarlabs.org >> as a central repository for activities. I think we will also host >> content there. The software for a.sl.o will not scale down enough to >> run on school. I am wondering if you think that it would be valuable >> for Sugar Labs to leverage your work and make system such as >> pustakalaya available as a resource for all deployments. >> >> thanks >> david > > Hi David, > Yeah i think its a good idea to have one software pkg that all > deployments can use for content delivery. Like Rabi mentioned, > pustakalaya has facilitated easy access of many types of digital > materials to our deployment schools. > Currently we use Fedora Commons--an open source digital repository > system, supports REST/SOAP, full text index search, easy administration, > client support, and much more and is very scalable. It can hold any type > of digital object. > Here is a link to fedora commons--www.fedora-commons.org > We use a modified FEZ --which is an open source front end for > fedora-commons. > > Right now i have a very off hand way of installing it on the XS, the > script works well for the XS, but some work will be needed to get it > working for all types of systems. > The second challenge, should something like this be used by other > deployments is the way you would update content through network. Its not > very difficult to do this but again there needs to be a way that works > for all. Schools can easily add their own content but need to work on a > model to allow schools to share, should they choose to do so with other > schools, and if there is a central repository that updates all XS, a way > to do that, and more :) > > Once these issues are resolved, something like pustakalaya will be a > great addition to all deployments. > I am also working on adding on lot of features, in some ways similar to > a.sl.o ( user uploads,user rating, users comments, more linking > features, bookmarking, user-user messaging and sharing etc. Some of > which is already done and will show up on pustakalaya soon) but so far > we have focused on content. > > If you are planing to start something like this for all deployments i > will be happy to contribute.
Thanks for the information. It looks like this would be a very good piece to make available to the wider community of sugar users. In terms of triaging, I would like to focus on creating deployer feedback channels. From there we can see what we can do about making your work more widely available. david > best, > Sulochan Acharya > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
