A good way to make geminispace great is to adapt marvelous web site to gemini browsing. wikipedia is a must https://librivox.org/?is excellent Do you know other?
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 06:40:32 +0000 defdefred <defdefred at protonmail.com> wrote: > Do you know other? How about Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org)? -- Matthew Graybosch gemini://starbreaker.org #include <disclaimer.h> gemini://demifiend.org https://matthewgraybosch.com gemini://tanelorn.city "Out of order?! Even in the future nothing works."
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 06:40:32AM +0000, defdefred wrote: > A good way to make geminispace great is to adapt marvelous web site to gemini browsing. This has actually been a contentious idea, historically. I don't think anybody is *opposed* to people doing this (although obviously people should take care regarding copyright), but there is a strong argument to be made, and many have made it, that if we want to attract people into Geminispace it's important that they can find good content there that they *can't* find on the web. There is, of course, room for both approaches, and making good, openly-licensed content like Wikipedia, Projet Gutenberg, etc. available in Geminispace would be great, as per the compelling arguments made at the recently shared list of web mirrors. Cheers, Solderpunk
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 18:48, Matthew Graybosch <hello at matthewgraybosch.com> wrote: > > How about Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org)? With matching /gemini/ hardware perhaps: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x5kpb/anyone-can-build-this-open-source -drm-free-kindle-alternative https://www.hackster.io/news/the-open-book-an-open-feather-compatible-ebook-2011bffe9ddc https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:39:22 +0000 defdefred <defdefred at protonmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2020 18:48, Matthew Graybosch > > How about Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org)? > > Yes! > and with the plain text utf-8 books, no need to quit the gemini > browser. Got a small proof-of-concept going on gemini://tanelorn.city/library/, but it's hand-curated. Doing a full mirror would take over 42GB just for the texts. -- Matthew Graybosch gemini://starbreaker.org #include <disclaimer.h> gemini://demifiend.org https://matthewgraybosch.com gemini://tanelorn.city "Out of order?! Even in the future nothing works."
Matthew Graybosch <hello at matthewgraybosch.com> writes: > Got a small proof-of-concept going on gemini://tanelorn.city/library/, > but it's hand-curated. Doing a full mirror would take over 42GB just > for the texts. Hey, very cool. Are the subject categories hand-managed/static? Or do you have a database backend of some kind? I may try to curate a public domain Gemini library for Weird fiction, starting with The King In Yellow... -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada |
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 05:06, Matthew Graybosch <hello at matthewgraybosch.com> wrote: > Got a small proof-of-concept going on gemini://tanelorn.city/library/, > but it's hand-curated. Doing a full mirror would take over 42GB just > for the texts. > IMHO that's a much better resource than a full mirror. These days the problem is not finding content; it's finding content worthy of your time. Of course I don't share tastes with most people, so it would be great to have similar curated libraries from many diverse people. I've tried to find something good to read on Project Gutenberg on multiple occasions and it's a behemoth of a task. So thanks for sharing, that's a great idea that I wish other people will also consider! I started my own humble selection at gemini:// hannuhartikainen.fi/library/ . -Hannu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200623/6182 f338/attachment.htm>
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:43:07 -0400 Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net> wrote: > I wonder if a static site generator kind of thing would be the sweet > spot for this. Just being able to tag a file with multiple tags and > other metadata, and have appropriate index pages generated, without > duplication of the bigger files. If you take a moment to visit tanelorn.city/library/ you'll find that I haven't been duplicating the texts. They all live in a texts/ directory, and then I link to them from multiple indexes as appropriate. For example, Emma Goldman's _Anarchy and Other Essays_ appears in both "anarchism.gemini" and "feminism.gemini". > Sounds like a good idea to me. Do you have a place you'd prefer to > host such a repo? I'm tempted to use SourceHut because I'm familiar with it, but it has the potential to be a huge repository. While I'm a paying customer (but only $5 a month) I don't want to put an unreasonable amount of strain on the service. GitHub might be more convenient for potential contributors, but I'm not sure I should entrust this to a Microsoft-controlled service. -- Matthew Graybosch gemini://starbreaker.org #include <disclaimer.h> gemini://demifiend.org https://matthewgraybosch.com gemini://tanelorn.city "Out of order?! Even in the future nothing works."
Matthew Graybosch <hello at matthewgraybosch.com> writes: > If you take a moment to visit tanelorn.city/library/ you'll find that > I haven't been duplicating the texts. They all live in a texts/ > directory, and then I link to them from multiple indexes as > appropriate. For example, Emma Goldman's _Anarchy and Other Essays_ > appears in both "anarchism.gemini" and "feminism.gemini". Ah, looks good; that's what I was suggesting a static site generator do. Does it get at all hairy maintaining it by hand? > I'm tempted to use SourceHut because I'm familiar with it, but it has > the potential to be a huge repository. While I'm a paying customer > (but only $5 a month) I don't want to put an unreasonable amount of > strain on the service. I imagine it would be a pretty long time before it got to be a big repo, if people were manually curating the books. People aren't going to be editing the books very much, after all, only the index files (or scripts and metadata used to generate the index files). > GitHub might be more convenient for potential contributors, but I'm > not sure I should entrust this to a Microsoft-controlled service. Yeah, I only use GitHub as a mirror of my self-hosted Gitea. Which I'd offer for this task, but it's on residential cable and couldn't take lots of users. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada |
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