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These are collections of references, images, books, and other content bundles for download to the laptop. Collections should indicate which builds they are tested with. Please click on the name of a collection for details.
To install a collection by hand : unzip it into /home/olpc/Library (creating that directory if it does not exist) and run /usr/share/library-common/make_index.py . This should happen automatically when a file with .xol mime-type is downloaded.
If you have a collection for public consumption, you can bundle it up and add it to the grid. If you're not sure about how to do this, add descriptions and links to the talk page.
Collections
Books and Reference
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Storybooks : from the International Children's Digital Library storybook collection edit Maintainers: Ben Bederson · License: some PD · Mime types: |
Download v.5 · source Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · available bundled works in es, pt, mn, en, ar, fa
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Wikipedia overview : The 1,000 articles every encyclopedia should have. edit The list of 1,000 also informed the larger Children's Wikipedia. Maintainers: Andy Sisson · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v.5 · Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · Available in en, es, pt, ar; many articles in th, some in ur, sw.  This page has a more up-to-date location: WikiBrowse
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Abridged Wikipedia : A set of one to three-paragraph selections from Wikipedia articles edit see also Wikislice general; to merge Maintainers: · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v.2 · Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · en only, needs a good proofreader per language | |||||
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Wikislice general : an abridged static encyclopedia edit v8 to be updated with data from the WP 0.7 project. Maintainers: sj, zdenek · License: GFDL · Mime types: |
Download v.2 · source Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · In en/es/pt/fr | |||||
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Web design : An introduction to html, javascript and elements of web design. edit Needs maintainer. Maintainers: · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v.3 · source Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · en only, with code and some language-neutral information | |||||
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Multilingual dictionary : edit Maintainers: · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v. · Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · | |||||
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Children's dictionary : edit built from dicts.info, dictionary collections from Bablyon, and the collections that ended up in Words. Maintainers: · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v. · Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · | |||||
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WikiHow : A collection of fun things to do from the WikiHow community edit could use translation. Maintainers: Felicity Tepper · License: CC-SA · Mime types: |
Download v.1 · source Tested in: none (trac) Translate: ·
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Wikibooks : Wikibooks is an open-source textbook creation project with versions in many languages. edit library core. There is an older bundle with the same name (v.1) Maintainers: sj · License: GFDL · Mime types: .pdf |
Download v.4 · source Tested in: none (trac) Translate: en and es · whole Wikijunior books exist in other languages
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Short stories : Short stories in children's literature. edit formerly from Literature Maintainers: · License: PD · Mime types: |
Download v. · Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · | |||||
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Lewis Carroll : A collection of Lewis Carroll stories edit Maintainers: Monica · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v.0 · Tested in: none (trac) Translate: · | |||||
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Wowio books : A selection of children's books from the Wowio online repository. edit Was posted here as an online link with good intent; needs maintenance. Maintainers: Wowio? · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v.0 · source Tested in: none (trac) Translate: ·
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NET Bible : An English language Bible edit needs links to other languages. . Maintainers: user:ZdenekBroz · License: unknown · Mime types: |
download v.1 · source Tested in: (trac) Translate: · single index in en only. many other languages are available. | |||||
| 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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TeleHealth Database : Medical ref and diagnosis aid. edit Maintainers: DyD · License: unknown · Mime types: n/a |
Download v. · Tested in: (trac) Translate: · | |||||
| 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. | - | |
| 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 : A set of language-learning videos edit needs developers to help turn mock-up and description into code. Maintainers: Ben Lowenstein · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v.1 · source Tested in: (trac) Translate: none · | |||||
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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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Older: File:Dictionary.xol, File:Encyclopedia.xol
Update 1
Here are collections for Update 1.
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Colingo : A set of language-learning videos edit needs developers to help turn mock-up and description into code. Maintainers: Ben Lowenstein · License: unknown · Mime types: |
Download v.1 · source Tested in: (trac) Translate: none · |
To-do
Update the browser mime-type list so it knows how to unpack and stow away content bundlesUpdate 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.