Content Proposal, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

[Seth Woodworth]

There is also a series of recordings in about 35 languages, of the
declaration by Librivox:
http://librivox.org/universal-declaration-of-human-rights-by-united-nations-volume-02/

---Seth

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've been downloading to get materials locally (size estimates, etc.).
>  One thought that occurs to me is to leverage the "Region" field they
> display on the website to create a handful of bundles (say 5-7
> variants).  See attached spreadsheet.  This overcomes individual
> language tracking and puts a grouping of indigenous languages together
> by region (e.g. numerous African and South American indigenous
> languages shared across national boundaries).  A small handful of
> bundles would be easier to manage manually in the build process.  All
> bundles could be sent to school server where available.  The only
> overhead it should add would be the concept of creating  an index page
> with links to each individual language, simple enough HTML to build as
> long as local storage directory is predictable.
>
> cjl
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> > +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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