[IAEP] Pathagar library

[Nicholas Doiron]

Hi Tony,

The OPDS format is a catalog of links, so it should be able to support
images, audio, and video.  Librivox.org will be coming out with an OPDS
feed of their audiobooks soon.  You could also work with OPDS to include
multiple descriptions (<description lang="en"> <description lang="ne">)
and show the best available one for the user.

Unless the student must have the content at home, my suggestion would be
to create an HTML page with the media embedded.  Then the student could
select several videos and keep the viewer pages in the journal, without
having to copy the whole video from the school server.  If they were out
of range of the network, they would see the content title, description,
and possibly a message explaining that the video is only watchable at
school.

Regards,
Nick

On Mon, May 30, 2011 9:30 am, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to install pathagar on my schoolserver (having a little
> trouble configuring httpd correctly). I hope to start with a representative
> sample of the English items in Pustakalaya (www.pustakalaya.org).
>
>
> I believe the library needs to handle not only e-books but also media
> (images, video, audio). I am planning to use a web interface (Firefox).
> Hopefully, each item will be identified with a mime-type. The mime-type
> can then be used to download the item to the Journal and to launch the
> appropriate activity (Read, Read Etexts, Jukebox, ImageViewer). The item
> needs to be downloaded so that the child can access it at home away from
> the schoolserver.
>
> One of the problems with Pustakalaya is that the Nepali and English
> items and descriptions are intermixed in a way that would be difficult to
> separate. In Nepal, content in English, Nepali, and other Nepali languages
> is appropriate. In Rwanda, the collections are likely to be English and
> Kinyarwanda (with possible addition of French and Swahili).
> In Haiti, it is more likely to be French, Haitian Creole, English and
> Spanish. Django should make it easy to prepare a script which will
> create a copy of the library which contains only items in selected
> languages. I also like the interface on International Children's Digital
> Library (ICDL) - especially the Basic Search. It is iconic and so less
> dependent on translation.
>
> Yours,
>
>
> Tony
>
>
>
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