Hi Mike,<div><br></div><div>This looks interesting. I'm working on a course for teachers about Sugar and I'm wondering if this is a tool I should potentially include.</div><div><br></div><div>Can you give me an overview of the problem its designed to solve and the use cases and types of users who will be both using and populating it?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is the library stored on the XS or the XO? </div><div>How does this compare/interact with infoslicer?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Caroline<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Mike Dawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikeofmanchester@gmail.com">mikeofmanchester@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear All,<br>
<br>
Finally made a first version of Simple Digital Library Index that we<br>
have designed here to make libraries easier in limited connectivity<br>
scenarios:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simple_Digital_Library_Index" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Simple_Digital_Library_Index</a><br>
<br>
In this I've tidied up a lot of the code, added a javascript based<br>
search that works offline, and made a GUI for tagging folders and<br>
building the library itself.<br>
<br>
* Generates a plain old HTML browsing interface - no MySQL, PHP,<br>
etc. required<br>
* Generates an index of all the meta data and files in the library<br>
- you can download this and use it the same way as a repository<br>
* Generates a basic Javascript search system that works even offline<br>
* Very simple to add content - just assemble folders of content<br>
and tag the files using their own format if required.<br>
* Very easy to replicate - static HTML files are generated;<br>
therefor it can be easily copied to any medium, made accessible by<br>
being put into a webserver (e.g. Apache) directory<br>
* Suitable for offline use or use on a school server that does not<br>
have an internet connection.<br>
* Can be simply localized by using an XML dictionary file. Will<br>
look and see if this can be generated from po files etc. HTML pages<br>
will be automatically generated for each language as specified in the<br>
config file.<br>
* Can be made full text searchable by feeding the index page to Nutch [1]<br>
<br>
Will be having the team here work on documentation and putting our<br>
example library online. Still very much work in progress but hope<br>
this gives a flavor. We have deployed it out here in Afghanistan and<br>
it works pretty nice for serving our offline websites and other media<br>
to kids.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
-Mike<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>
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