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Open Textbook Library

Open Popolechien opened this issue 5 years ago • 8 comments

  • Website URL: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
  • License: CC-by
  • Desired ZIM Title: Open Textbook Library
  • Desired ZIM Description: University textbooks every student can afford
  • Desired ZIM Icon –png: https://open.umn.edu/assets/opentextbooks/otl_logo-e67c14f47603ec666d1d4fa15ceb84a373a755fc39e06564a2f717331a6180d5.png
  • Language (ISO 639-3): eng
  • Desired Main Page (homepage): https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects
  • Is this a MediaWiki?: no

Popolechien avatar Feb 19 '20 13:02 Popolechien

This resource is more complicated than it looks, however the folks at Minitex would be happy to see this happen. I have access to the private repo in github/Minitex with OTL scraping code. If anyone wants to work on it please contact me as there are a number of paths to make a ZIM file, in particular, the OPDS -> ZIM route could be reusable for a number of resources.

eshellman avatar Feb 19 '20 14:02 eshellman

Linked and need probably https://github.com/openzim/gutenberg/milestone/5 to work probably. Definitly interested OPDS -> ZIM

@eshellman Does the OPDS stream of Open Textbox Library is public?

kelson42 avatar Jul 14 '23 14:07 kelson42

@eshellman we are still waiting for your answer to close this issue please

RavanJAltaie avatar Apr 16 '24 23:04 RavanJAltaie

right now I do not have access to any non-public minitex repos, and I don't remenber what I was referring to

eshellman avatar Apr 21 '24 03:04 eshellman

Recipe created https://farm.openzim.org/recipes/opentextbooks_en_all

RavanJAltaie avatar Aug 08 '24 01:08 RavanJAltaie

The file content is not scraped properly https://dev.library.kiwix.org/viewer#opentextbooks_en_all_2024-08 I've tried changing the scope type to all the options but no success

RavanJAltaie avatar Aug 13 '24 11:08 RavanJAltaie

This website cannot be scraped easily with Zimit at all (lot's of clicks to simulate, most books are hosted on external web domains) and it probably provides no value since there might be an OPDS catalog to fetch.

I just tagged it "Scraper Needed" because it is not yet clear if / when https://github.com/openzim/gutenberg/milestone/5 will be implemented.

benoit74 avatar Aug 13 '24 11:08 benoit74

Rename to Open Textbook Library by Open Education Network to avoid confusing due to generic name

Rexadev avatar Aug 15 '24 10:08 Rexadev