I don't know the answers, we should ask UMN. They seem to filter for books that someone has recommended to them, which are in use by at least a couple of courses at a known university. Agreed re: a liberation process, since they are such a satisfying outlet that I imagine most authors are glad to be included in...
Dave Braunschweig pointed me to a lovely table <https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_Educational_Resources/Sources> of other sources, largely for texts; I suppose starting with a granular index of titles that merges all of these source indices would help answer questions like [which are freely licensed, which are in X format]. Most in the UMN index seem to have PDFs and either online or epub versions. This is just a meta-catalog tracking whatever the author has provided at the source. But my initial question is: what makes a book of interest to include on WS? SJ On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 2:51 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 15/05/22 01:20, Samuel Klein ha scritto: > > Has anyone worked with texts from this lovely project > > <https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/>? How should we think about > > integrating them with WB/WS? > > WMCH has some experience importing unstructured books into MediaWiki. > Any idea what source formats they might be using? Do these textbooks > need updates or are they released once only? > > > According to the metadata CSV, these are the licenses used: > > Attribution 268 > Attribution-NoDerivs 1 > Attribution-NonCommercial 150 > Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 42 > Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 411 > Attribution-ShareAlike 131 > Free Documentation License (GNU) 17 > No Rights Reserved 4 > > > It would be nice to set up a process with them to liberate the nonfree > books after the commercial use by the publisher (?) has run its course. > > Federico > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
