Library
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Contents
Current sample library release
You can see the content bundles included in our latest build below (look for those marked as core).
Materials in the library should be formatted as content bundles and added to the grid below. To nominate content bundles for the latest release, please add their details below and nominate them at Featured bundles.
Anyone can make library materials and libraries for use on the laptop, and there will be different libraries for each country, but we make every effort to include as many featured bundles as we can in our core builds. See also the Library Release Notes for more.
How to contribute
See Creating a content bundle and Localization for ways to contribute new or translated materials to the library. There is also a list of contributors.
Library activity
The Library activity will be an activity for browsing books and media in Sugar. This should provide an intuitive way to search and browse through different kinds of text and media, including granular reference works, classical texts, image galleries, audio books, and videos. It should display rich information about highly collaborative materials, with ongoing updates, version #s, and dozens of authors.
The activity should make it easy to search for and request new materials for the library from outside sources (international digital libraries, regional or national repositories, the local mesh). It should provide a way to publish new material for others to access. And its infrastructure should allow users to change its layout and what kinds of data it displays.
The initial Library activity is rolled into the browser -- the browser is planned to have a small icon that takes you back to your library from wherever you are, and browsing to leaf nodes of the library will take you away from library navigation elements. In the future these two activities may be separated.
Purpose and Goals
An intuitive interface for finding media
The Library should provide a layer of abstraction on top of the available reading, editing, and searching activities. It should offer a single place to look for information and media, though there may be separate text-readers, video-viewers, audio-players, and editors for each of these materials.
Through the default interfaces, we can suggest some of the useful metadata that can be filtered up to the highest levels of indexing and browsing.
Initial targets
The simplest initial targets are a library of image-light books, in text or crossmark; a subset of these available as audiobooks; 5000 encyclopedia entries; 1000 dictionary terms, with words in 10 languages; a library of images, each with short metadata strings and sources; and a set of short videos.
Repositories
for notes on an international library catalog for childrens materials, see Library catalog
FEDORA (the repository backend, not the Linux distribution; see the 2003 trademark dispute for a cute story) is a good modular and scalable system for providing access to large collections of materials.
- Fedora appeals to me because it is a pure web service. OLPC could develop a very intuitive front-end for kids without compromising the back-end reliability and power. Here is an install guide I put together for a very basic install of fedora. I installed fedora on top of Ubuntu 7.04 Berrybw
