On Tue, June 7, 2011 2:30 pm, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > I will download Calibre and try it. If this not works, we can use code > from Pathagar to create a catalog > or use python to create the catalog.xml file with the data in the csv > file, or use another > simpler format (like json) to create local catalogs. > I only need a little of time. This week si packed. > > Gonzalo
Valerie Taylor and I are both very much interested in using such a solution for the Replacing Textbooks project. We already know of sites with 100,000 Open Education resources, and the rate of development is accelerating. I just learned earlier today that Bangladesh has put more than 100 of its existing K-12 textbooks online for free downloading, covering its entire curriculum. > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:54 PM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Gonzalo, >> >> I've been investigating OPDS with calibre as a way of distributing >> books with an offline catalog. As you know, there has always been an >> interest in doing this in areas where Internet access is unavailable. >> >> With the help of calibre-OPDS I was able to create both a website and >> an OPDS catalog that can easily live in an Apache webroot, a thumb >> drive, or a Dropbox folder. In this way you can easily create a >> static website that does NOT require calibre to be running. >> >> Now the bad news: the OPDS catalog seems to be more complex that what >> GetBooks can deal with. It is organized as a hierarchy of XML files, >> with lists by Author, Title, Rating, etc. Instead of having just one >> XML file with the whole catalog you have a bunch of them. >> >> The software is described here: >> >> >> http://dearauthor.com/ebooks/create-your-own-cloud-of-ebooks-with-calibre-calibre-opds-dropbox/ >> >> You might try this yourself. The software is in Java and is really >> simple to set up, so you can generate a test OPDS index in no time >> from data in a calibre database. >> >> The static website is actually quite useful, and could be used from >> the Browse Activity if the website was stored on a thumb drive. That >> might be an alternative to recommend to those who need to distribute >> books without Internet access. >> >> James Simmons >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
