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(a)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
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