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Concerning the dissemination of knowledge
CtrAltDel (Profile): (2024-11-21 02:57:38 (UTC))
I host the CtlAltDel node and I have planned to host a large mainly non fiction library in a file browser.
I believe strongly in the free dissemination of knowledge to those who cannot afford traditional access.
This feels like the right place and time to share a project like this and yet I hesitate. Let me know here or on my nodes bulletin board or lxmf message if you have an opinion
Yes, I won't hesitate :-)
One could test some nomadnet python for reading queries, forward them to some search engine and get references (ie: ipfs CIDS, MD5...) I mean something for retrieving (and hopefully seeding) Anna's archive data.
Another fan of Anna's archive, I must admit I am shocked they are still up and serving data there. My Idea was more hosting a wide range of files from a hard drive not a web retrieval setup. Although as a secondary onption I may play with such a thing if I can work around their anti bot code
Depending on data amount, you can start from a trivial grep on a csv list to generate download links to a more efficient search engine when stuff is millions.
About data, there are many torrents around of non-fictional books, but you definitely need metadata to retrieve them. If you plan to you choose an area of interest, the harvest is rather cumbersome.