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

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Mon Nov 3 07:54:28 EST 2008


Use http://mediawiki.org

But, OL is free and open: http://openlibrary.org

http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs


Jon

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:34 +0100, Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> 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

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