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Starting 2008 openZIM defines itself as "a free and open implementation of the ZIM file format", while openZIM provides both a free documentation of the file format as well as the tools to create ZIM files from web content and a reader to present them in a browser. | Starting 2008 openZIM defines itself as "a free and open implementation of the ZIM file format", while openZIM provides both a free documentation of the file format as well as the tools to create ZIM files from web content and a reader to present them in a browser. | ||
openZIM provides a free and open implementation of the ZIM file format - a file format meant to provide the most efficient way to store web content. The ZIM file format is mainly developed for and used to provide offline access to Wikipedia content it is able to host any kind of web content, including images, CSS and java script files. | openZIM provides a free and open implementation of the ZIM file format - a file format meant to provide the most efficient way to store web content. The ZIM file format is mainly developed for and used to provide offline access to Wikipedia content it is able to host any kind of web content, including images, CSS and java script files. | ||
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The talk will give a short introduction in openZIM and the ZIM format and will then focus on technicall issues when dealing with huge chunks of data like Wikipedia and how they have been addressed by openZIM. After the talk you know the tools that are available, have got a overview on the file format and the ressources to find more details if you plan to implement it by yourself and you know how to start using zimlib in you own software. | The talk will give a short introduction in openZIM and the ZIM format and will then focus on technicall issues when dealing with huge chunks of data like Wikipedia and how they have been addressed by openZIM. After the talk you know the tools that are available, have got a overview on the file format and the ressources to find more details if you plan to implement it by yourself and you know how to start using zimlib in you own software. | ||
=== Short Abstract === | |||
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''openZIM provides a free and open ZIM file format and tools - developed for and used to provide offline access to Wikipedia content.'' | |||
''We will give a introduction in openZIM and the ZIM format and then focus on technical issues when dealing with amounts of data like Wikipedia and how we have addressed them. After the talk you know the tools that are available, have got a overview on the file format and the resources to find more details if you plan to implement it by yourself and you know how to start using zimlib in your own application.'' | |||
=== Links === | === Links === | ||
* '''URL:''' http://openzim.org/ | * '''URL:''' http://openzim.org/ | ||
* '''Description:''' website of the openZIM developer team with documentation, SVN, bugtracker and ZIM file archive | * '''Description:''' website of the openZIM developer team with documentation, SVN, bugtracker and ZIM file archive | ||