Re: [IAEP] My first experience with eTexts
Maybe we should add a ticket for this to Trac. We seem to be getting some students joining the project for the summer and this looks like a good summer project. The other piece of it is a UI. Thanks, Caroline On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:44 AM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.comwrote: Caroline, The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small website for offline reading. I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work with offline websites stored in Zip files. This is actually a more popular format than you might think. For instance, Project Gutenberg has a bunch of illustrated books in that format, for instance _The Innocents Abroad_ by Mark Twain is one. It is reasonable to assume that some future version of Browse will be able to work with Zip files like this one. James Simmons Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi James, Here is another interesting source of books. How hard to make a reader for these? Or would we do something completely different? http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] My first experience with eTexts
On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote: Caroline, The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small website for offline reading. I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work with offline websites stored in Zip files. +1 Yep, this is on the roadmap for 0.86. It would open up using a whole new set of content directly through a well tagged Journal (no need at all for the old .xol format and it's non-standard use of browse to access the information through a custom scripted home page). --Gary This is actually a more popular format than you might think. For instance, Project Gutenberg has a bunch of illustrated books in that format, for instance _The Innocents Abroad_ by Mark Twain is one. It is reasonable to assume that some future version of Browse will be able to work with Zip files like this one. James Simmons Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi James, Here is another interesting source of books. How hard to make a reader for these? Or would we do something completely different? http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] My first experience with eTexts
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote: Caroline, The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small website for offline reading. I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work with offline websites stored in Zip files. +1 Yep, this is on the roadmap for 0.86. It would open up using a whole new set of content directly through a well tagged Journal (no need at all for the old .xol format and it's non-standard use of browse to access the information through a custom scripted home page). Great, so no need for us to put in any tickets or anything? Is there somewhere I can make a note of where these specific books are, they would make a great test case. --Gary This is actually a more popular format than you might think. For instance, Project Gutenberg has a bunch of illustrated books in that format, for instance _The Innocents Abroad_ by Mark Twain is one. It is reasonable to assume that some future version of Browse will be able to work with Zip files like this one. James Simmons Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi James, Here is another interesting source of books. How hard to make a reader for these? Or would we do something completely different? http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] My first experience with eTexts
On 1 Jun 2009, at 20:44, Caroline Meeks wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote: Caroline, The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small website for offline reading. I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work with offline websites stored in Zip files. +1 Yep, this is on the roadmap for 0.86. It would open up using a whole new set of content directly through a well tagged Journal (no need at all for the old .xol format and it's non-standard use of browse to access the information through a custom scripted home page). Great, so no need for us to put in any tickets or anything? Is there somewhere I can make a note of where these specific books are, they would make a great test case. Well, slightly off topic – but also on – I'd point you to ticket: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/840 Goal is, I think, to come-up with some agreed on set of items for an otherwise fresh Journal and add them in a well tagged, titled, described, meta-data way to kick-start folks going to the ways of the Journal (with actually useful content), eg. go to Journal type Berlin in search and see a couple of entries that are world maps showing Berlin somewhere (I have this now easy), perhaps one is an actual FLOSS street map of Berlin, Germany; and a couple of ebooks written by authors in or about Berlin. And then, more on topic, I'd go for: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Roadmap/0.86#Browse Regards, --Gary --Gary This is actually a more popular format than you might think. For instance, Project Gutenberg has a bunch of illustrated books in that format, for instance _The Innocents Abroad_ by Mark Twain is one. It is reasonable to assume that some future version of Browse will be able to work with Zip files like this one. James Simmons Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi James, Here is another interesting source of books. How hard to make a reader for these? Or would we do something completely different? http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
