[Bookreader] OLPC seeking support collecting books from Archive.org

[Rebecca Hargrave Malamud]

Hello -

The code for gCI will be available on github soon. I will ping this list 
when we release -

Additionally, I will be certain to see that Scotty Auble of the RDC 
joins this list if he hasn't already.

This is exciting!

Rebecca Malamud



Samuel Klein wrote:
> Here's a comment from Rebecca, who rolled some packages to generate an
> interface to a finite (offline) set of books.
>
> Martin, you might want to look at this to figure out what variation
> should be available on the schoolserver.
>
> < I like the internationalization aspect.
> <
> < The software we developed can definitely support this. Here are the docs we
> < have been developing for gCI which is the python app that generates the UI:
> <
> < http://www.ruraldesigncollective.org/lab/docs/
> <
> < It will be fun to get other folks using the software. We could
> explore getting
> < remote teams working together on the project - a great idea for Hacker
> < Wednesday!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:47 AM, raj kumar <rkumar at archive.org> wrote:
>   
>> You can get a list of all French and Spanish books in CSV format from
>> the advanced search engine:
>> http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php (scroll to bottom form)
>>
>> I think the search you want to do is:
>> mediatype:texts AND (language:"spanish" OR language:spa OR
>> language:"french" OR language:fre)
>>
>> This gives 223631 books at this time.
>>
>> You can download a list of these books in CSV format and then then
>> feed them to the bulk download script found here:
>>
>> http://blog.openlibrary.org/2008/11/24/bulk-access-to-ocr-for-1-million-books/
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> -raj
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Paul Commons wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> For anyone who has a little time to help, OLPC would like to pull
>>> Spanish & French books from Archive.org for various governments to
>>> help distribute to schools.  If anyone would like to participate in
>>> this project, please email me.  We could use the help and any
>>> support is always appreciated.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to hearing back from a few eager volunteers.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Paul Commons
>>>
>>> --
>>> Paul Commons
>>> One Laptop per Child
>>> Miami, FL
>>> Cellular: (317) 523.9822
>>> Office: (305) 371.3755
>>>       
>   




Samuel Klein wrote:
> Here's a comment from Rebecca, who rolled some packages to generate an
> interface to a finite (offline) set of books.
>
> Martin, you might want to look at this to figure out what variation
> should be available on the schoolserver.
>
> < I like the internationalization aspect.
> <
> < The software we developed can definitely support this. Here are the docs we
> < have been developing for gCI which is the python app that generates the UI:
> <
> < http://www.ruraldesigncollective.org/lab/docs/
> <
> < It will be fun to get other folks using the software. We could
> explore getting
> < remote teams working together on the project - a great idea for Hacker
> < Wednesday!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:47 AM, raj kumar <rkumar at archive.org> wrote:
>   
>> You can get a list of all French and Spanish books in CSV format from
>> the advanced search engine:
>> http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php (scroll to bottom form)
>>
>> I think the search you want to do is:
>> mediatype:texts AND (language:"spanish" OR language:spa OR
>> language:"french" OR language:fre)
>>
>> This gives 223631 books at this time.
>>
>> You can download a list of these books in CSV format and then then
>> feed them to the bulk download script found here:
>>
>> http://blog.openlibrary.org/2008/11/24/bulk-access-to-ocr-for-1-million-books/
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> -raj
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Paul Commons wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> For anyone who has a little time to help, OLPC would like to pull
>>> Spanish & French books from Archive.org for various governments to
>>> help distribute to schools.  If anyone would like to participate in
>>> this project, please email me.  We could use the help and any
>>> support is always appreciated.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to hearing back from a few eager volunteers.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Paul Commons
>>>
>>> --
>>> Paul Commons
>>> One Laptop per Child
>>> Miami, FL
>>> Cellular: (317) 523.9822
>>> Office: (305) 371.3755
>>>
>>>       
>
>