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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).


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

  • Avallain literacy and basic skills learning
  • A World Digital Library portal
  • Wikijunior, 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
  • Wikieducator tutorials
  • OER subcollections from Curriki and OER Commons

Proposed implementation

The head page for a curriculum or cohesive set of content is just an HTML page. It can have any text interspersed in it. The document should have a tag in the header: