On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Manuel Schneider
<manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch> wrote:
Hi,
On 23.02.2011 08:01, Alex Wafula wrote:
> With regards to Openzim and Kiwix, my take is that the Openzim project is mostly involved in the development of zim files while Kiwix is a reader of zim files.
yes - Kiwix uses zimlib by openZIM to access the ZIM files.
openZIM has just developped the ZIM file format and a few tools and
libraries, so readers or publishers can use the ZIM format easily.
openZIM does not make ZIM files and the only zimreader application we
have is a command line tool that acts as a webserver - more of an
example application. As the idea behind openZIM is all free and open
source / standards everyone can look at the code, built upon it etc.
Making it a standard means that all offline readers could use the same
file format and therefore can freely exchange content (ZIM files) and
reader applications (ZIM readers), instead of every offline application
having its own, proprietary format.
That's our mission:
http://openzim.org/Mission_of_openZIM
Kiwix is one of the users of openZIM, a ZIM reader:
http://openzim.org/ZIM_Readers
Emmanuel from Kiwix is currently also the biggest ZIM file creator:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/
/Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
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