[FM Discuss] How to update EPUBs in Internet Archive?

[John Rigdon]

What do you need in the way of a server?  Do you anticipate large
band-width?  Will this be a permanent archive, or a development system
only?

John Rigdon


> so. the thing is james you are talking about the future :)
>
> We have a bit of a problem here at the booki dev team. its a question of
> capacity. the scenario you suggest is _exactly_ what the Internet
> Archive wants to do with booki. We have discussed this with them at
> length and they want to build booki into their system so that people can
> correct epubs just as you have done.
>
> This is an enormous opportunity for booki but we have so far failed to
> realise it because, simply, we dont have the people power. It is
> _extremely_ frustrating.
>
> What we need to do is get a few heads together and solve this and solve
> it fast. We have all the code in place what I think we need to do is
> this:
> * find a good server to host an archive instance of booki
> * work out some basic code to automate the import
> * install
> * run test projects
>
> if you would like to be a part of this greater picture i would *love* to
> work with someone to get this cracking...
>
> adam
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> On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 14:51 -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>> When I submitted "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" to the Internet
>> Archive it created books in multiple forms, including an EPUB.
>> However, the way it makes an EPUB is defective in this case.  It
>> assumes that you will give it a PDF composed of page images, which it
>> then does OCR on to create the EPUB.  Doing OCR on a file that already
>> contains text is not going to give good results, and the resulting
>> EPUB is useless.  However, Booki can create a really good EPUB.  I
>> know I could donate that EPUB to the Internet Archive, but what I
>> really want to do is REPLACE the lousy generated EPUB with my good
>> one.  I know that Booki was created in part to do this very thing, but
>> I can't figure out how to make it happen.  The Internet Archive page
>> does not let you delete the existing EPUB, and when you upload a new
>> one it does not seem to replace the existing one.
>>
>> I'll ask over at IA but I figured that whoever developed the function
>> in Booki would know the answer.
>>
>> James Simmons
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