Content Proposal, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

[Gonzalo Odiard]

+100

I like the idea of include the UDHR and the idea of a e-Rosetta.
The size is not a problem, I have tried with spanish:
The pdf size is 186K, the html is 38K, but we can clean it and have a html
version of 14K (ziped is 5K)
We can start with a content bundle (.xol)

We can do a better job with the content bundles we include.
Almost all are from Wikibooks Junior http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior
but we continue including the same books from may be 2007.

Gonzalo


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear OLPC developers,
>
> I would like to propose including the United Nation's Universal
> Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in the content bundles provided in
> the 11.2.0 libraries.
>
> http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
>
> It is translated into over 400 languages (found here)
>
> http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx
>
> Many deployments are apparently interested in English language
> instruction and I believe that distributing English and local language
> copies of the UDHR together not only provides an opportunity for a
> "Rosetta Stone" type pairing of texts, but it might also serve as a
> launching point for discussions in civics or social studies classes.
>
> I have sent an e-mail to the Secretary of the Publication Board,
> United Nations to specifically ask about any restrictions they might
> impose on electronic redistribution of the UDHR text and translations
> downloaded from their site.  However, given the following quote from
> the UHDR website, the intended use seems entirely consistent with the
> intent of the UN in publishing the UHDR.
>
> "On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations
> adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the
> full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this
> historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to
> publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be
> disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and
> other educational institutions, without distinction based on the
> political status of countries or territories."
>
> Article 26 is of particular relevance to OLPC's efforts.
>
> Assuming there is consensus on pedagogical value and a clear answer on
> the copyright status of the UDHR, the remaining question is how to go
> about packaging this content for OLPC distributions.  The material
> downloads primarily as PDF files.  I haven't checked them all, but
> some are text selectable "composited" PDFs, some may be scanned image
> PDFs, and a few are possibly available as HTML.
>
> I would like to do as little rework as possible on packaging these (in
> part to get them ready in time for the 11.2.0 release), so I am
> inclined to stick with the 8 page PDF as downloaded. One possibility
> would be to include all of the languages, but this seems wasteful of
> precious space.
>
> I am not aware of any storage structure currently available for
> content management by language in the way that Pootle handles strings
> and the individual languages in the /po directory in git.  I'm unsure
> of how this could be managed with the build process to pick up the
> appropriate localized version of the UDHR.
>
> Let's be clear that I am not really a developer, so I would be happy
> to see someone take this idea and run with it. I am more than willing
> to collaborate with anyone on bringing this to fruition, but I
> probably can't pull it off all by myself without some assistance (at
> least advice and feedback on appropriate technical issues).
>
> cjl
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