[cc-community] looking for an application to display books online
Alek Tarkowski
alek at creativecommons.pl
Mon Sep 10 05:51:41 EDT 2007
Thank you everyone for your advice.
Jessica, thanks for your thorough explanation of the Commonwealth
regulations. Naturally, here in Poland they in general are the same, but
differ in regard to fine details.
Jon, I've been looking at the OpenLibrary demo site, but as I wrote
before, the site displays only scans. I'd be happy to work for the
library, but from our perspective another thing needed is the ability to
use the library just as a backend, for our own web frontend. As you
know, it is a different thing for a project to have it's own branded
"library", and a different issue altogether to be only able to say that
it is supplying content for the OpenLibrary.
Gavin, I think there is place for special reader interfaces. Single-page
TXT or HTML is not the easiest to use (though I agree that it is sturdy
and therefore important, for instance for archival reasons), and PDF
requires additional software. Such a reader could either a) do a better
job of using the "book" metaphor than a single-page text or b) come up
with a new metaphor for reading text online.
Thanks once again,
Alek
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koordynator / public lead
Creative Commons Polska / Poland
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