Re: Ideas about book landing page & metadata presentation

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From: Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]>
To: [email protected],
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Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Ideas about book landing page & metadata presentation
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Hi Greg

We have done something similar to be able to pack the whole collection
in a ZIM file.

Here is a demo web site:
http://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/

Source code is here:
https://github.com/openzim/gutenberg

Regards
Emmanuel

On 26.03.2018 15:13, Greg Newby wrote:
> Hello, gutvol-d.  This list has been very quiet, and if you discover yo=
u no longer want to receive messages you can visit https://lists.pglaf.or=
g to unsubscribe (unsub instructions are also part of the email header).
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> I am wondering whether you have ideas about how to present a more effec=
tive landing page for our eBooks.
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> The situation is that I am trying to make the collection more self-cont=
ained, and remove some of the back-end processing we use to present infor=
mation about the books.
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> Take a look at any current eBook landing page, such as https://www.gute=
nberg.org/ebooks/56843
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> This is plain HTML (with Javascript and CSS), but it does not come from=
 a static file.  Basically, what I'd like to do is recreate a similar pag=
e, but as a static file, without relying on a back-end database, and with=
out using Javascript.  I.e., plain HTML with CSS.
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> The actual files are in a location like this: https://www.gutenberg.org=
/files/56843/  =20
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> My intention is to make a directory (folder) that has those files, plus=
 the generated files (i.e., you can see them here: http://aleph.gutenberg=
=2Eorg/cache/epub/56843/) plus an index.htm or similar that presents the =
landing page.
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> Oh, and we'll give all the files nice human-friendly usernames.  There =
is already some code for that in epubmaker.
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> MY INQUIRY is for ideas about the index.htm or similar that would be si=
milar to the current landing page, but be (a) static, and (b) use no Java=
script or other active content, and (c) allow variations on CSS, to have =
different "skins" for different viewers.  General ideas:
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>  - HTML5
>  - works well with mobile and desktop
>  - works well with text browsers and screen readers
>  - might need to have two pages: one for bibrec info ("about.htm" perha=
ps?) and the other to access
>  - get CSS style information from e.g., /gutensite/ , so that it is eas=
y for people to apply their own styles.  For example, mirrors might not w=
ant the dropbox/cloud links)
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> I'm very interested in any mockups that you can think of.  The idea wil=
l be to generate these static pages when new eBooks are added/updated.
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> That way, when someone visits a page like https://www.gutenberg.org/ebo=
oks/56843 , they will be seeing the static content under ebooks/56843.
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> Currently, there is no such static content: it is all generated by a se=
t of back-end Web-database applications.
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> Thanks,
>   Greg
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