Content repositories
| Philosophy |
| Creating Content |
| Curating Content |
| Educational ideas |
| Activity ideas |
| Software ideas |
| Hardware ideas |
| Help Translating |
| Library |
| Content network |
| Repositories |
| Collections |
| modify |
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
- 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
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: