Has anyone worked with texts from this lovely project https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/? How should we think about integrating them with WB/WS?
SJ
Il 15/05/22 01:20, Samuel Klein ha scritto:
Has anyone worked with texts from this lovely project https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/? How should we think about integrating them with WB/WS?
WMCH has some experience importing unstructured books into MediaWiki. Any idea what source formats they might be using? Do these textbooks need updates or are they released once only?
According to the metadata CSV, these are the licenses used:
Attribution 268 Attribution-NoDerivs 1 Attribution-NonCommercial 150 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 42 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 411 Attribution-ShareAlike 131 Free Documentation License (GNU) 17 No Rights Reserved 4
It would be nice to set up a process with them to liberate the nonfree books after the commercial use by the publisher (?) has run its course.
Federico
I don't know the answers, we should ask UMN. They seem to filter for books that someone has recommended to them, which are in use by at least a couple of courses at a known university. Agreed re: a liberation process, since they are such a satisfying outlet that I imagine most authors are glad to be included in...
Dave Braunschweig pointed me to a lovely table https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_Educational_Resources/Sources of other sources, largely for texts; I suppose starting with a granular index of titles that merges all of these source indices would help answer questions like [which are freely licensed, which are in X format]. Most in the UMN index seem to have PDFs and either online or epub versions. This is just a meta-catalog tracking whatever the author has provided at the source.
But my initial question is: what makes a book of interest to include on WS?
SJ
On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 2:51 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Il 15/05/22 01:20, Samuel Klein ha scritto:
Has anyone worked with texts from this lovely project https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/? How should we think about integrating them with WB/WS?
WMCH has some experience importing unstructured books into MediaWiki. Any idea what source formats they might be using? Do these textbooks need updates or are they released once only?
According to the metadata CSV, these are the licenses used:
Attribution 268 Attribution-NoDerivs 1 Attribution-NonCommercial 150 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 42 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 411 Attribution-ShareAlike 131 Free Documentation License (GNU) 17 No Rights Reserved 4
It would be nice to set up a process with them to liberate the nonfree books after the commercial use by the publisher (?) has run its course.
Federico
Il 15/05/22 22:32, Samuel Klein ha scritto:
But my initial question is: what makes a book of interest to include on WS?
One selling point we've used before in Wikimedia Italia is cross-linking.
The simplest kind is interwiki links: if there's a Wikipedia article about the book or its author, an incoming link will make the articles more useful and the book more visible. Annotations or simple links from the book itself to other books and wiki pages can be a significant value add in some cases.
Federico
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