[IIAB] IIAB

[Tony Anderson]

Hi,

I think the simplest solution may be to put the IIAB on a hard drive and 
ship it to me. I would be happy to pay the costs. One possibility is 
that I buy a drive and have it shipped to you.

 From your description of the wsgi strategy, it should be 
straightforward to implement for XS-0.7/Django. What I do is provide a 
custom portal page for the Browse activity. This page has buttons for 
the various collections (books, Sugar activities, and so on).

The standard XS-0.7 has a /library partition that is intended for all 
content. Essentially, the IIAB content would be installed there as a 
folder with wsgi access.

The real integration issue is to decide whether to access all of the 
'library' content through the IIAB gui or build custom access or ... For 
example, the library now has the English pdfs from OLE Nepal's 
E-Pustakalaya. Some of these are also part of the Project Gutenburg 
collection (e.g. Tom Sawyer) but many are not (e.g. the Creative Commons 
books from India). The kids should have one path to access all of the 
digital library, if possible.

I think the biggest problem is to set up a 'search' mechanism. 
Currently, the mechanism is title or author. However, kids need ways to 
find items of interest when they have no idea of title or author. The 
best example I have seen so far is the 'simple search' page on 
International Children's Digital Library. It clearly is designed for use 
by kids.

Currently I am traveling by camper round and about Europe. At the moment 
I am parked on the edge of the Adriatic (about 300m) in Croatia. Friday 
I am off to Hungary to meet friends. However, a hard drive could be sent 
to Rudolf Simon in Stuttgart or Christopher Derndorfer in Vienna and I 
could arrange to pick it up. Rudolf is the sponsor of the laptops at the 
Saint Jacob's school in Rwanda.

I have offered to help Kishwer Aziz get a server set up in London before 
she leaves for Pakistan. I have not heard back yet. However, this could 
be a way to get her a good copy of IIAB to take to Pakistan (as well as 
meet her technical concerns).

Incidentally, if you are interested I could make a copy of the content 
now on the schoolserver to send to you for possible inclusion in IIAB.

Tony


On 07/10/2013 07:45 PM, Braddock wrote:
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> Hi Tony,
> Sorry for the delay, I've been on vacation.
>
> I'd like to get you a copy of the IIAB dataset, or even one of our
> network devices.  Things are currently in flux as we work towards the
> XSCE integration.
>
> As for integrating IIAB into a portal page, we have a solution for
> that ready for XSCE.  Basically on the XSCE portal page, they run a
> couple lines of Javascript which asynchonously invokes a WSGI call to
> IIAB to determine whether an IIAB installation with dataset exists on
> the local server, or on the network at large (via mdns).  If it
> succeeds, a button for IIAB appears, otherwise it never appears.
>
> The intention is that IIAB will be installed as a WSGI service on all
> School Servers, and if the end user later plugs in a USB drive with
> the IIAB dataset, or an IIAB network appliance, everything will "just
> work".
>
> - -braddock
>
>
> On 07/04/2013 11:41 AM, Tony Anderson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You have been getting a lot of attention on the lists:
>> Internet-in-a-box as IIAB.
>>
>> Adam's most recent post suggests that he has installed IIAB as a
>> folder on the server (e.g. /library/iiab) which is then accessed
>> via Apache through http://internet-in-a-box.org/. This seems like a
>> good place to start since it preserves the look-and-feel of your
>> site.
>>
>> At some point, it may be easier for the users if the portal is
>> integrated, although what I have now is confusing enough. The
>> Browse activity (Webkit) comes with a portal page
>> (/home/olpc/.library-pages/library.html - if I remember correctly).
>> For the schoolserver, I have replaced it with a portal page that
>> shows buttons to access the library, wikipedia (wiki4schools), and
>> wiktionary. I suspect that IIAB would be another button on that
>> page.
>>
>> We discussed how I could get a copy of the content. Perhaps, this
>> could be coordinated with Kishwar Aziz
>> (kishwer.aziz at banktandd.com). I need to find out how long she will
>> be in London. I can perhaps meet up with her in August.
>>
>> I can give you an address here in Europe to send a hard drive. I
>> might then be able to help her get a server set up. At this point,
>> I would be likely to use XS-0.7 (CentOS 6.2) instead of XSCE for
>> stability.
>>
>> Tony
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