Re: [school-discuss] I4U news about future technology, gizmos and gadgets - i4u.com

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

Dear Mike,

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David

Quoting mikee <meschman@engima.com>:

> http://www.i4u.com/
> 
> hello,
> 
> this link (at the top of the page) is for a $139 cd organizer that lets the
> 
> librarian lend cds out and put them back into any tray without losing track
> 
> of anything.  it holds 75 cds - i know for a fact i can fit all +10,000 
> documents in the gutenberg collection into this unit as audio, .txt and
> .pdf.
> it is a stand alone unit - no computer required.
> 
> we are going to use this.
> if it goes out of production, we will build a replacement.
> 
> our cds have this indexing scenario :
> 
> iso9660 header -
> note - all indexing info is std. linux asci character
> 
> volume id - 64 characters
> publisher id - what about this ?
> preparer id : i would like to use a confirmed e-mail address.
> abstract information (i would like to hold this to 320 chars. (4X80 on a 
> terminal).
> bibliographic information - what about this ?
> copyright info. - gutenberg lic. here -- can it be a http:// link to the full
> 
> text, which is actually not stored on the cd ? or can it be on another cd in
> 
> the unit ? or must it be embedded in every file containing "product" ?
> 
> note that gutenberg and UCLA personnel have been copied.
> 
> librarians out there, how do we use these fields ?
> 
> mike eschman, etc...
> "Not just an afterthought ...
> http://www.engima.com
> 


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