Greg Newby wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:41:09AM -0500, James Linden wrote:
Four navigation files built for a new Project Gutenberg CD-ROM which contains primarily non-English electronic books are now available for review at http://www.aaronandgabby.com/pgcd/ The files allow one to browse the CD by Author, Language and Author, Language and Title, or Title.
This is great stuff! Once it's raedy (or ready enough), I'd like to go ahead and make an .iso image to add to our collection. -- Greg
Why aren't we generating navigation pages from the catalog DB, instead of making HUGE single files? We should be providing indexes by Language, Subject Matter, Alphabetical Author, Alphabetical Title, etc -- all in a nicely paged manner.
People using a CD or DVD directly won't necessarily have access to the catalog DB, so some sort of built-in file-based navigation seems necessary.
Providing a CD-based program + database for Win or Mac or Lin or whatever would be fine, too (in addition to file-based), but we don't have one.
The idea of _generating_ the navigation files is that we can burn static files on the CD, but generate them for each CD image version using paging, various sort options, etc. This does not require users to have access to the DB, only a simple script that creates the HTML files. -- James