[cc-community] request for advice: presenting books / text online

Alek Tarkowski alek at creativecommons.pl
Sun Nov 2 15:34:19 EST 2008


Hi,

I am hoping that someone can help me with chosing the right online app 
for a project I am starting. It's called "Open the book" - we will be 
making available online, under free licenses, significant Polish 
academic books that are out-of-prints, and the rights for which are 
often with their authors.

We are currently thinking about the right way to make these books 
available. Since the project is supposed to have promotional merit for 
free culture, we feel that a simple repository - based for instance on 
dSpace or ePrints (or potentially on ccMixter) - is not sufficient. 
Optimally, we'd like to provide the experience of working with the text 
online as well.

This is done by Google Books of course, and by Open Library - but both 
seem to be using technologies that are not openly available.

I will be greatful for any advice on what software to use - optimally 
free software. I'm hoping someone on the list might have experience with 
such projects.

All the best,

Alek

-- 
dr Alek Tarkowski
koordynator / public lead
Creative Commons Polska / Poland
http://creativecommons.pl



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