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By distributing laptops and school servers with learning materials on them, and a global index of content that can be used with no modification on the laptops, OLPC is developing a network of digital libraries in a number of languages.
By distributing laptops and school servers with learning materials on them, and a global index of content that can be used with no modification on the laptops, OLPC is developing a network of digital libraries and collections in a number of languages.


We are gathering a list of those materials. To add to this any materials you know of which would be free for laptop users to access, see [[Educational content ideas|content ideas]]. For more information on sharing your content if you are a publisher, author or collection holder, see [[Sharing your content with OLPC]].
(see also: [[Educational content ideas|content ideas]], [[sharing your content with OLPC]], and [[#Content rating|content rating]]).


== Subsets of large archives ==
== Potential materials ==
''for a breakdown with size estimates, see [[Content repository/sizes]]''
There are some large archives available for inclusion in the content repository. [http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr] and [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons]; [http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenberg] and [http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar]; [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]; [http://www.wiktionaryz.org/ WiktionaryZ / OmegaWiki] and Dicologos; the [http://humaninfo.org/ Humanity Development Library] and like collections; the list goes on.


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There are tools being developed for identifying and culling subsets of large repositories. Small subsets will be needed for pre-installation of the choicest content on the laptops themselves. Larger subsets will still need curating to pick out material suitable for the laptop's audiences; classification and categorization; and checks to avoid unbalance or repetition. All content (aside from images and media that are naturally alingual) will need some processing to make localization easier.
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=== TV & Radio ===
:Educational shows (streamed): science, history, quiz, art/music, book review, story shows
:Bookreading / chapter a day audio
:News program (streamed)
:Audio streams (ogg)


== Use cases ==
=== Audio and videocasts ===
:Podcast streams
Conceptually, a content repository could be used in a variety of ways: to publish and share new material, to collaborate on material development over time (synchronizing online and offline contributions to a shared document or project), to search for and download material, to distribute and cache from large collections that can't be contained on one machine or at one school.
:Cache requests


=== News ===
:Local video
:BBC, M6 video
:UN news audio (en, es)
:International news
:International papers: IHT, LeMonde, El Mercurio
:Weather videos (short, regular)


=== Extended use case #1 ===
=== Books and texts ===
:e-books, full format
A teacher proposes a collaborative writing project for her class, and later tries to integrate the students' work with Wikipedia. Note the general issues of merging collaborations, and of integration of revision histories from the repository with outside repositories.
:plain text ebooks
:reports and papers


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* Alia writes a document about daisies -- about how she thinks they are pretty and she likes picking them for her mother. She shares this on the school repository. It has no general interest.
Premier Programming has a grant for non-profits. The Talking Word Processor is an amazing literacy tool for all students.
http://www.readingmadeez.com/education/grant.html
http://www.readingmadeez.com/products/talkingwordprocessor.html
Julia


=== Interactive courseware ===
* Bea (Alia's friend) gets the document and adds to it a picture she draws of a daisy. She shares it with her school, but not overwriting Alia's.
:OCW collections, updates
:Science: biology, physics, chemistry
:Mathematics
:Music, Literature, History, Health
:Training: Sustainable ag, technology, repair, teaching, journalism


=== Wikipedia & sister projects ===
* Alia corrects her spelling and uploads a new version of her document, overwriting the old one.
:Snapshots: simple, science, geography, languages, color, sound, environment, art, music
:Regular updates
:Wikibooks: wikijunior, fhsst [updated]


*[http://www.howtopedia.org www.howtopedia.org] a collaborative library for practical knowledge and simple technologies. [[howtopedia]] has a simple interface and clear content in English, French, Spanish.
* The teacher asks each student to write a report on a plant. Carlos chooses Daisies, and starts with Bea's document. He ends up deleting all the text but keeping the picture. Carlos is shy and doesn't share is report generally, he gives it directly to the teacher.
<center> [[Image:Logo howtopedia.gif|300px]] </center>


=== Web and blogs ===
* The teacher likes Carlos's report and publishes it to the school.
:Newsfeeds: rss from blogs, services, sites
:Web cache: individual and project-level requests


=== Mail, chat, file transfers ===
* Later, the teacher notices that the localized wiki/wikipedia (Portuguese, say) doesn't have a page on daisies. She decides on a class project to start with Carlos's report to make a page.
:Sharing mail and chat messages
:File uploads and repositories, local / school / global


* She sets up a project space for children to contribute content. She wants everyone to put all their ideas and comments together.


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* Some students take pictures of daisies.


=== Daily updates ===
* Delores writes an article on making a daisychain garland.


== Repository mirrors ==
* Estacio writes about where daisies grow in Brazil.
We will have regional mirrors in every country and region where OLPC is distributed en masse.


Materials to be included in the mirrors include:
* Fidelio translates some of the Spanish wikipedia page on daisies.
* a full Fedora repository
** developoment tools used by OLPC subteams in constructing builds
** cross-compilation toolchains used by various contributors
* a Free content repository
** Wikipedia snapshots [2-20GB], archive.org & gutenberg texts [2-100GB]
** Wikimedia Commons [1M resources, ~1TB]
** Other media resources (Jamendo, archive.org; size TBD)
* Collections made specifically for OLPC
** A collection sized for the XO
** Local collections sized for the XO and for school servers, developed in-country
** Collections sized for school servers (larger sets of data, maps, video, texts, and software)
* Software suitable for OLPC schools
** Packages for FC7 school servers
** Extensions and additions for existing tools and services in the OLPC network


=== Mirror sites ===
* Gia finds some pictures of daisies online. Some are CC licensed, some aren't licensed at all, some are non-free stock photography images. She copies them all into the project space.
In general, the Internet Archive is considering launching local and regional mirrors of their collections. We will want a larger mirror that can host a dozen TB of data for each region, connected to multiple peers; and a number of smaller mirrors in each country.
Details on potential mirror hosts:


'''South America''':
* In class they try to bring everyone's material together for a single article.
* Brasil -- Google, AMD. See also Rodrigo M.
* Uruguay -- Google and GMail


'''Africa'''
* The teacher doesn't worry about licensing and some non-free images go into the main document.
* Nigeria --
* Ethiopia --


'''Asia'''
* The teacher likes Delores' article on daisychains, but it isn't really about daisies. She doesn't want it forgotten, but doesn't include it. She moves it out of the project and makes a link from the main article. The link points to the school space.
* Nepal -- see [[OLPC Nepal]]
* Taiwan?


== Large archives ==
* She includes Estacio's and Fidelio's work as separate sections in the main document.
* Free media collections : [http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons]
* Music : [http://www.freesound.org Freesound], [http://freemusic.freeculture.org/ Free Music Project]
* Texts: [[Project Gutenberg]], [http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar], [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia];
* Stories: [http://www.childrenslibrary.org ICDL], [http://schoollibrary.com/OLPC_Collection.htm other children's pdfs]
* Language: [http://www.wiktionaryz.org/ WiktionaryZ / OmegaWiki], Dicologos and [http://www.dicts.info/ Universal dictionary system]
* Reference collections: the [http://humaninfo.org/ Humanity Development Library], [http://www.widernet.org/digitallibrary/ eGranary]


Small subsets will need to be culled for pre-installation of choice material on the laptops themselves; larger subsets will need curating to pick out material suitable for the laptop's audiences; classification and categorization; and checks to avoid unbalance or repetition. Most content needs internationalization.
* The teacher doesn't actually "do" all of these things, but directs the students to do them together. Communication takes place (via voice) in the classroom, but the content production on the laptops. They are all directly and well connected to the school server during this process.


== Specific projects and collections ==
* After class the teacher gets the document into the right place on the Portuguese Wikipedia. She shares the link with all the students. She is proud that they put this together and would like to make sure all the parents see it... (how can she remind children to tell their parents?)
* [[Avallain]] literacy and basic skills learning
* A [http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html World Digital Library] portal
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior Wikijunior], [http://www.wikihow.com/Select-wikiHow-Articles-for-the-One-Laptop-Per-Child-Association WikiHow]
* [[Our Stories]] project, with Story Corps, UNICEF, and Google - capturing local stories
* Book scanning and digitization:
*: Children's picturebooks, with support from ICDL
*: Public domain materials, with archival support from the Internet Archive
*: Other local cultural materials, with support from the World Digital Library
* [http://wikieducator.org Wikieducator] tutorials
* OER subcollections from [http://curriki.org Curriki] and [http://oercommons.org OER Commons]
* [[Health_Content]] collection
* The [[Open Training Platform]] Hub to free learning resources for development, advocating for open non formal educational content powered by UNESCO [http://www.opentrainingplatform.org]
* [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)]
* [http://www.earthlearningidea.com/ Earth Learning Idea] Earth-related teaching ideas - all free to download. These require minimal equipment and resources, suitable for all ages and for teachers of science and geography.
* [http://www.literacycenter.net Literacy Center] - letter and number recognition in Flash and print formats
* [http://www.rechenrad.de mathmatics for little ones] German language flash for preschool

==Copyright-restricted content==

To list a content collection that would be nice to have, but that is not currently under appropriate licensing for use on OLPC go to [[Licensing petitions]].

== Use cases ==
Conceptually, a content repository could be used in a variety of ways: to publish and share new material, to collaborate on material development over time (synchronizing online and offline contributions to a shared document or project), to search for and download material, to distribute and cache from large collections that can't be contained on one machine or at one school. For more, see the ''' [[Talk:Content repository#Extended use cases|talk page]].


== Content rating ==
'''Asides'''
Simple ratings can be done
# Many parents don't know what Wikipedia is. The teacher would like to explain a little about it for the parents. She'd like to leave parent-directed comments [on the Wikipedia page?]. They aren't relevant to a larger audience... she wants to make sure parents know that it's something she wrote for them to read (as opposed to all the general stuff on Wikipedia).
* via a matrix of subject areas and reading levels,
# What happened to the daisychain article? (The teacher may have forgotten about it by now. Is it on the school repository? What happened to the link in the article?)
* via a [[content stamping|group rating system]] where anyone can affiliate with a rating group and apply their shared guidelines and ratings to materials
# A Wikipedia member (not a child, not using the laptop) removes all the unlicensed or non-free images in the article. That person would like to explain the reason to the contributor (who is attributed in the history tracked by the content repository, but not on Wikipedia, and has no WP page).


[[Category:Developers]]
[[Category:Resources]]
[[Category:Resources]]
[[Category:Pedagogical ideas]]
[[Category:Pedagogical ideas]]
[[Category:Content Repository]]

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By distributing laptops and school servers with learning materials on them, and a global index of content that can be used with no modification on the laptops, OLPC is developing a network of digital libraries and collections in a number of languages.

(see also: content ideas, sharing your content with OLPC, and content rating).

Potential materials

for a breakdown with size estimates, see Content repository/sizes

TV & Radio

Educational shows (streamed): science, history, quiz, art/music, book review, story shows
Bookreading / chapter a day audio
News program (streamed)
Audio streams (ogg)

Audio and videocasts

Podcast streams
Cache requests

News

Local video
BBC, M6 video
UN news audio (en, es)
International news
International papers: IHT, LeMonde, El Mercurio
Weather videos (short, regular)

Books and texts

e-books, full format
plain text ebooks
reports and papers

Premier Programming has a grant for non-profits. The Talking Word Processor is an amazing literacy tool for all students. http://www.readingmadeez.com/education/grant.html http://www.readingmadeez.com/products/talkingwordprocessor.html Julia

Interactive courseware

OCW collections, updates
Science: biology, physics, chemistry
Mathematics
Music, Literature, History, Health
Training: Sustainable ag, technology, repair, teaching, journalism

Wikipedia & sister projects

Snapshots: simple, science, geography, languages, color, sound, environment, art, music
Regular updates
Wikibooks: wikijunior, fhsst [updated]
  • www.howtopedia.org a collaborative library for practical knowledge and simple technologies. howtopedia has a simple interface and clear content in English, French, Spanish.
Logo howtopedia.gif

Web and blogs

Newsfeeds: rss from blogs, services, sites
Web cache: individual and project-level requests

Mail, chat, file transfers

Sharing mail and chat messages
File uploads and repositories, local / school / global


Daily updates

Repository mirrors

We will have regional mirrors in every country and region where OLPC is distributed en masse.

Materials to be included in the mirrors include:

  • a full Fedora repository
    • developoment tools used by OLPC subteams in constructing builds
    • cross-compilation toolchains used by various contributors
  • a Free content repository
    • Wikipedia snapshots [2-20GB], archive.org & gutenberg texts [2-100GB]
    • Wikimedia Commons [1M resources, ~1TB]
    • Other media resources (Jamendo, archive.org; size TBD)
  • Collections made specifically for OLPC
    • A collection sized for the XO
    • Local collections sized for the XO and for school servers, developed in-country
    • Collections sized for school servers (larger sets of data, maps, video, texts, and software)
  • Software suitable for OLPC schools
    • Packages for FC7 school servers
    • Extensions and additions for existing tools and services in the OLPC network

Mirror sites

In general, the Internet Archive is considering launching local and regional mirrors of their collections. We will want a larger mirror that can host a dozen TB of data for each region, connected to multiple peers; and a number of smaller mirrors in each country. Details on potential mirror hosts:

South America:

  • Brasil -- Google, AMD. See also Rodrigo M.
  • Uruguay -- Google and GMail

Africa

  • Nigeria --
  • Ethiopia --

Asia

Large archives

Small subsets will need to be culled for pre-installation of choice material on the laptops themselves; larger subsets will need curating to pick out material suitable for the laptop's audiences; classification and categorization; and checks to avoid unbalance or repetition. Most content needs internationalization.

Specific projects and collections

Copyright-restricted content

To list a content collection that would be nice to have, but that is not currently under appropriate licensing for use on OLPC go to Licensing petitions.

Use cases

Conceptually, a content repository could be used in a variety of ways: to publish and share new material, to collaborate on material development over time (synchronizing online and offline contributions to a shared document or project), to search for and download material, to distribute and cache from large collections that can't be contained on one machine or at one school. For more, see the talk page.

Content rating

Simple ratings can be done

  • via a matrix of subject areas and reading levels,
  • via a group rating system where anyone can affiliate with a rating group and apply their shared guidelines and ratings to materials
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