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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.


Books.png Books and Reference

Content Bundle List
Bundle Name Subcategory Description Base School Server l10n Download URL Notes
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 -

Books.png Religion

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: -

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
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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 Uniwiki

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. -

Uniwiki.png Appropedia

Appropedia mini-Appropedia Jr. - - - Currently being created on appropedia, to be bundled in .xol and uploaded here by Aug. 15 - -

Library-colingo.png Colingo

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 - en -

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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THM|DB

TeleHealth Database Medical reference and diagnosis aid. See TeleHealth_Database - - Content bundles in the works. - Contact User:DyD if interested in contributing. -


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.