---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Dawson <mikeofmanches...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:03 AM Subject: Simple Digital Library Index System To: de...@lists.laptop.org
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 I would be interested in using OLPC project hosting for this - I looked at the Contributor's program on the wiki. We have laptops here :) - just need project hosting. As per the status note in the wiki I do have a version now that more or less does the trick - quite a few things to tidy up and formats to add support for. As soon as possible I shall put up a demo version on our server (hopefully later this week). Regards, -Mike _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel How does this compare to the Moodle approach? Can't we do the same in Moodle although in the case of Moodle, one has to create courses and do so manually. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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