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This is a collection of content bundles, asset libraries and other materials available for download to the laptop. Content bundles on this page should have been tested to some degree on a build, and should indicate which builds they work on. Click on the name of any bundle for detailed information. For dynamic bundles and code, see Activities.
After downloading a content bundle, if it does not install automatically, you should unzip it into /home/olpc/Library (creating that directory if it does not exist) and run /usr/share/library-common/make_index.py to regenerate your index. This should happen automatically when a file with the bundle mime-type is downloaded.
If you have a content bundle that's ready for public consumption, please add it to the grid. If you're not sure about its readiness, you can add descriptions and links to the talk page.
- See Content bundles for information about creating a content bundle.
- See dev.laptop.org to preview sample bundles.
Books and Reference
| Bundle Name | Subcategory | Description | Base | School Server | l10n | Download URL | Notes |
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| International Childrens Digital Library | children's books | - | - | - | Notes: index page in english. content in persian / farsi, english, spanish, croatian, portuguese. each item is a single language, and is stored in its own directory. | ||
| Wikipedia | encyclopedia | - | - | - | Notes: no top-level index page. content in english, spanish, portuguese, and simple english. each language (with customized index page) is stored in its own directory. | - | |
| Abridged Wikipedia | encyclopedia | - | - | - | Notes: Single index in English. Content in English. 12600 short articles from Wikipedia in one bundle. | Preview | - |
| WikiSlice | encyclopedia | - | - | - | Notes: Content in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. About 900 selected articles from Wikipedia. | Preview | - |
| WikiSlice - animals | encyclopedia | - | - | - | Notes: Content in English. About 300 selected articles about animals from Wikipedia. | Preview | - |
| CIA World factbook | reference | - | - | - | Notes: Single index in English. Content in English. | Preview | - |
| Web design reference | reference | - | - | - | Notes: Single index in English. Content in English. | Preview | - |
| Multilingual dictionary | reference | - Translation of word from one language to another language ex. Spanish-English or English-Spanish | - | - | Notes: Single index in English. Content in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian etc. | Preview |
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| OLPC Children's Dictionary | reference | - Word definitions: Defined meanings of words in multiple languages | N | ? | Notes: Part of the OmegaWiki Dictionary Project | [1] | - |
| WikiHow | reference | - | - | - | Notes: Single index in English. Content in English. | Preview | - |
| WikiBooks | reference | - | - | - | Notes: Single index in English. Content in English. | Preview | - |
| Literature | literature | - | - | - | Notes: single index page but in multiple languages. content in english, spanish, portuguese, german, italian, dutch, french. all files stored in top-level directory. | - | |
| Lewis Carroll Collection | stories | All the stories of Lewis Carroll available via Project Gutenberg, in English - just a folder containing all the .txt files, one per book. Made by Mel as a simple test library for her to learn about library-making with. | N | N | Notes: All content in English. No top-level index page, all files stored in top-level directory. | - | |
| Wowio Children Books | stories/various | Free downloadable PDFs of all kinds, with 50+ children's ebooks, both recent and public domain, with color illustrations. Mainly in English, but some Spanish and bilingual. Ad-supported ebooks, and registration on Wowio website is required. Note: These files are fairly large, so they should be saved on a memory card. Books are usually 5-10 megabyte for a 35-40 page book. You can search by age and by subject matter. | N | N | Notes: Mainly English, but some Spanish language/bilingual titles. Note: You can only register if you are a US resident. | Wowio Children's Books | - |
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| English bible | Bible | - | - | - | Notes: Single index in English. Content in English. | Preview Download - | |
| Illustrated bibles | Bible | - | - | N | Available languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai | Preview | - |
| Koran | Koran | - | - | - | Content in English and Arabic. | Preview | - |
| Sacred texts bundle | Religion | Just a suggestion at this stage. Based on the assumption that we shouldn't be giving kids a limited selection of religious texts. It's too much like endorsing certain religions. However a large selection of texts representing all major and some minor religions has educational value. | ? | ? | Notes: | - | |
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| Biology | biology | - | - | - | Notes: index page in english, content in english, content stored in top-level directory. | - | |
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| Photos | nature | - | - | - | Notes: Index in english. Content is language-neutral (all images). Content stored in top-level directory | - | |
| Wikipedia featured pictures | various | - | - | - | Notes: Index in english. Content is language-neutral (all images). | Preview | - |
| Famous paintings | art | - | - | - | Notes: Index in English. Content in English. | Preview | - |
| Atlas | atlas | - | - | - | Notes: Index in english. Content in english. Content stored in top-level directory | - | |
| World Digital Library | historical | - | - | - | Notes: Index in english. Content in english. Content stored in directories according to genre (images, photos, treasures) | - | |
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| Audio & Video | media | - | - | - | Notes: Index in portuguese (?). Content in portuguese. Content stored in top-level directory. | - | |
| Music | music | Music from Jamendo, autobuilt bundle from a list of jamendo track IDs. | Y | Y | Artist names and track names, not translatable. Genre info translatable, currently filled in by the artists. | - | |
| Classical music | music | Classical music in MIDI format. | - | - | Content in English. | Preview | - |
| Music One | music | Same as above, but only one track | - | - | same as above | - | |
| Musical Look At Waste | music | Instructions on building musical instruments from waste and common materials, for kids (and grown-ups) to build | ? | ? | English (translations welcome) | Preview download |
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| Olhar Musical Sobre os Resíduos | music | Instrucções de construção de instrumentos musicais a partir de resíduos e objectos comuns, para crianças (e adultos) construirem | ? | ? | Português (traduções são bem vindas) | Preview download | - |
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| Activities | games | - | - | - | Notes: Index in english. Content in english. Content stored in top-level directory. | - | |
| NES games | games | - | - | - | Notes: Index in english. Content in English. | Preview | - |
| Sesame video | media | - | - | - | Notes: Index in english, spanish, takalani. Content in all. | interface | |
| How-tos | how-to | - | - | - | - | Preview. See also WikiHow. | |
| Meta-activities | activities | - | - | - | - | Online repository of learning activities.
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| Links | search the web | - | - | - | Notes: Index page in english, with links to resources in many languages. No leaf content. | - | |
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| Uniwiki | water & environment | - | Y | Y | Notes: Index page in spanish, with link to second index page in egnlish. Two versions of content, english and spanish. Both stored in top-level directory. | - | |
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| Appropedia | mini-Appropedia Jr. | - | - | - | Currently being created on appropedia, to be bundled in .xol and uploaded here by Aug. 15 | - | - |
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| Colingo | Learning languages and cultural exchange. | See known issues | - | - | Content Bundle of basic video phrases in English, Spanish, and Portuguese released CC-BY 2 Nov 2007. | - colingo dev | - |
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| e-Learning for Kids | For Kids to play and learn | Courses available in... Math, Language Arts, Science, English Language, Health and Life Skills] | - | - | Content Bundle in the works for K-12 e-learning courses in English and Spanish. Portuguese and French to come soon. First course for testing. Release 12/12 | Preview Age_5_Math.xol |
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| TeleHealth Database | Medical reference and diagnosis aid. | See TeleHealth_Database | - | - | Content bundles in the works. | - Contact User:DyD if interested in contributing. | -
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Other bundles
Put these in the grid when they are complete, with icons and styles:
To-do
- Update the browser mime-type list so it knows how to unpack and stow away content bundles
- Update the library main page to generate its navigation dynamically from its directory list
- Publicize this standard to people with game, audio, video, text, and other libraries; including activities that are registering mime-types with the browser and want to offer a way to browse their projects without launching them directly: for instance, Etoys should automatically produce a content bundle linking to its projects on the laptop build... perhaps with a section linking to other projects online.