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===== Distributed e-book library ===== | ===== Distributed e-book library ===== | ||
- | Access to information is a human right. The idea is to establish a distributed federated e-book library system. Each library has it's own database. When two libraries are linked together, they exchange their databases. The databases only store metadata, like titles, tags, language and file location. For storage a distributed file system should be used. The file system should be fault-tolerant and avoid duplications. The database also should avoid duplications, | + | Access to information is a human right. The idea is to establish a distributed federated e-book library system. Each library has it's own database. When two libraries are linked together, they exchange their databases. The databases only store metadata, like titles, tags, language, checksum |
==== Features ==== | ==== Features ==== | ||
* Easy accessable webinterface | * Easy accessable webinterface | ||
* distributed file system | * distributed file system | ||
- | | + | |
- | * databases can be linked together | + | * federation: |
* filtering ("I only want books about topic x", etc.) | * filtering ("I only want books about topic x", etc.) | ||
- | | + | * upstream, peering, transit, like BGP |
- | * each book only once in the global database | + | * Web of trust, signed database entries |
+ | | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * each book/ | ||
* search engine | * search engine | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Name ==== | ||
+ | I suggest the name " | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Architecture ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Backend === | ||
+ | * Database | ||
+ | * Links to other Backends | ||
+ | * Links to storage systems | ||
+ | * sends instructions to storage systems | ||
+ | * is the requested file locally available? | ||
+ | * yes => provide link | ||
+ | * no => instruct storage system to download it via torrent, provide link | ||
+ | * knows how much storage is available at every system | ||
+ | * select a suitable storage system for downloading files | ||
+ | * knows at what storage system each file is stored | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Database == | ||
+ | * file name | ||
+ | * magnet link | ||
+ | * can be used for identification, | ||
+ | * metadata | ||
+ | * title | ||
+ | * language | ||
+ | * author | ||
+ | * tags | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * etc. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Frontend === | ||
+ | * Webinterface | ||
+ | * API | ||
+ | * RSS | ||
+ | * search engine | ||
+ | * reading in browser | ||
+ | * converting to other formats (like calibre does) | ||
+ | * queries backend and provides download links to storage | ||
+ | * Administration | ||
+ | * User accounts | ||
+ | * users can generate downstream-links to there own backend | ||
+ | * trusted users can edit the database and provide new files | ||
+ | * bookmarks | ||
+ | * social networking | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Storage === | ||
+ | * multiple storage systems per backend | ||
+ | * provides files via http(s) and torrent | ||
+ | * receives instructions from backend to download files via torrent | ||
+ | * when storage is full: |
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