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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
Audio and videocasts
News
Books and texts
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Wikipedia & sister projects
 Web and blogs
Mail, chat, file transfers
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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
- Nepal -- see OLPC Nepal
- Taiwan?
Large archives
- Free media collections : Flickr, Wikimedia Commons
- Music : Freesound, Free Music Project
- Texts: Project Gutenberg, Google Scholar, Wikipedia;
- Stories: ICDL, other children's pdfs
- Language: WiktionaryZ / OmegaWiki, Dicologos and Universal dictionary system
- Reference collections: the Humanity Development Library, 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.
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
- Health_Content collection
- The Open Training Platform Hub to free learning resources for development, advocating for open non formal educational content powered by UNESCO [1]
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- 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.
- Literacy Center - letter and number recognition in Flash and print formats
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