[IAEP] Pathagar library

[Tony Anderson]

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