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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.png Books and Reference

Content Bundle List
Bundle Name Subcategory Description Base School Server l10n Download URL Notes
icon for other 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 


icon for other 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. 
542-stopicon.png This page has a more up-to-date location: WikiBrowse


icon for other 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 
icon for other 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 

Projects/Animals wikislice Projects/World factbook

icon for other 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 
icon for other Multilingual dictionary : edit
 
Maintainers:  ·  License: unknown  ·  Mime types:
Download v. ·
Tested in: none (trac)
Translate: ·    
icon for other 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: ·    
icon for other 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: ·    


icon for other 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 


icon for other Short stories : Short stories in children's literature. edit
formerly from Literature 
Maintainers:  ·  License: PD  ·  Mime types:
Download v. ·
Tested in: none (trac)
Translate: ·    
icon for other Lewis Carroll : A collection of Lewis Carroll stories edit
 
Maintainers: Monica  ·  License: unknown  ·  Mime types:
Download v.0 ·
Tested in: none (trac)
Translate: ·    
icon for other 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: ·    
  • Contact: Hector Armando Vargas Figueroa
    • Experience: 5 anos de servicio
    • Members: Alfonso Andrade Garcia, Director; Guy Bergeron, accompanante;
  • Project: OLPC_LO DE MARCOS, #58467
    • Name: OLPC_LO DE MARCOS, #58467
    • Laptops, requested for months : 20 meses
    • Status: pending

Books.png Religion

icon for other 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: -

Science.png Math and Science

Biology biology - - - Notes: index page in english, content in english, content stored in top-level directory. -

Images.png Images and Maps

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) -

Music.png Music and Video

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 -

Activities.png Activities and Games

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.png Web Links

Links search the web - - - Notes: Index page in english, with links to resources in many languages. No leaf content. -

Uniwiki.png Health and Water

icon for other 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 - -

Library-colingo.png Languages

icon for colingo 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 ·    

EFK.png e-Learning for Kids

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.

icon for colingo 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 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.