[OLPC library] Working on a repository system for Nepal's OLPC pilot

[Michael Rueger]

Bryan Berry wrote:
> I have put a lot of work these two weeks into building a prototype
> library for Nepal's pilot of OLPC. It is my understanding from an e-mail
> conversation with S.J. that OLPC hasn't decided on a repository system
> for the library. For the time being I am much more concerned about the

As part of the Sophie project (http://sophieproject.org) we worked on 
porting Sophie to the XO, but the ongoing changes and no funding stopped 
that effort.
However, we do have a Sophie book server, where Sophie books can be 
uploaded to and downloaded from. At Impara we have been also working on 
a web reader for Sophie books, which would allow to read Sophie books in 
a normal web browser without the need for a plugin.
With the HPI in Potsdam we extended an early prototype to support 
annotations. comments etc 
(http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/projects/sos/index.html).
If you are interested I can give you access to our test versions.


> I have posted an image of the prototype on to OLE Nepal's blog
> http://nepal.ole.org/home/?q=node/104


> fedora -- not to be confused with Fedora Linux 

With Sophie we have implemented a web service to access OKI supporting 
repositories, but are not very happy with it for a variety of reasons.

We are looking at using Fedora as a repository back-end with Sophie. I 
installed Fedora and did some tests. Their web service API is well 
thought out and it runs in small installations as well as large, 
distributed systems. Definitely my favorite so far.

Just MTC (€)

Michael