---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Dawson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikeofmanchester@gmail.com">mikeofmanchester@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:03 AM<br>Subject: Simple Digital Library Index System<br>To: <a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a><br><br><br>Dear All,<br>
<br>
In Afghanistan we wanted to have a system that would make it as simple<br>
as possible to make a relatively large, replicated digital library<br>
accessible locally on the school server (external bandwidth here is<br>
about 64kbps per school). In addition we wanted something that was<br>
very fast and easy to add content to (e.g. not having to type meta<br>
data again hundreds of times).<br>
<br>
We looked at Greenstone in particular - but that was relatively<br>
complex to setup and also would have been tricky to automate adding<br>
content to it / distributing it. Moodle is really designed more for<br>
class / learning management.<br>
<br>
The system that we have made is based on Java / XSL - it makes digital<br>
libraries a breeze, not requiring any kind of database etc on the<br>
server:<br>
<br>
I have made a wiki page at: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SimpleDigitalLibraryIndex" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SimpleDigitalLibraryIndex</a><br>
<br>
I would be interested in using OLPC project hosting for this - I<br>
looked at the Contributor's program on the wiki. We have laptops here<br>
:) - just need project hosting. As per the status note in the wiki I<br>
do have a version now that more or less does the trick - quite a few<br>
things to tidy up and formats to add support for. As soon as possible<br>
I shall put up a demo version on our server (hopefully later this<br>
week).<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
-Mike<br>
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</div><br>How does this compare to the Moodle approach? Can't we do the same in
Moodle although in the case of Moodle, one has to create courses and do
so manually. <br><br>
Sameer<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>San Francisco State University<br>San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br><a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
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