[IIAB] [KIWIX][INTERNET-IN-A-BOX] Nice project!

[Emmanuel Engelhart]

Hi Braddock

On 03/26/2013 09:56 PM, Braddock wrote:
> I'm preparing to do a dump of gutenberg to epub and converted html files
> that you could use to build a ZIM. (may or may not get it done this week
> however)

This is on my side really not urgent! I don't want to put you under 
pressure :)

> How should I handle metadata for you to create a zim? Title, author,
> illustrator, year, language, etc? Is it possible to search on those fields?

Not sure exactly how to understand this question. This is maybe because 
we have a misunderstood. My wish is to have one ZIM file with all the 
books of Gutemberg. So, I don't see a big problem with the ZIM file 
metadata. My proposition would be: publisher=yourprojectname, 
creator=Project Gutenberg, language is a big challenge because you have 
books in many languages. Maybe it's better to make a ZIM file per 
language? With the Kiwix fulltext search engine, it should be pretty 
easy to find stuff. With good index pages, this should also help... cf. 
my next comment.

> By default the gutenberg files do not have interesting file names
> (pg30532-image.epub for example). The meta data is stored in the obtuse
> catalog.rdf XML file, indexed by the id number of the text. We have all
> this parsed and broken out into a SQLite database for our own use.

This is great. The most important is to have a good HTML title tag and 
if possible a meta tag with good keywords. Do you plan to create custom 
HTML indexes with these data (like lists of book per author, language, 
title)?

Kind regards
Emmanuel