[Ldsoss] LDS Opencontent Directory

[Christopher Phillips]

I think that using existing repositories is a great idea whenever possible,
especially for any type of content that might have values to a bigger
audience. However I think there is enough LDS themed content that a
completely separate directory would be helpful in order to facilitate the
setup of an LDS folksonomy to organize information and make the information
more accessible. I am not referring as much to coding projects as I am to
things like LDS clip art, object lessons, chapters from books, audio
recordings, music, etc...

Right now you can go to http://www.commoncontent.org/ and do a search for
content tagged 'LDS' or go through the categorial hierarchy to maybe find a
religion category with a LDS subcategory, but that would likely be the end
of the line.  However, with an LDS specific directory you could tag things
more specifically and have a more specific hierarchy setup- i.e. Church
History --> Prophets --> Spencer W. Kimball...

The structure for this type of project could be setup fairly quickly, the
time consuming part would be gathering, organizing and tagging content as it
came in or preferably setting up a way that the community could self
organize.

Christopher

On 7/11/06, m0smith <m0smith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rather than creating an LDS only repository, why not use the already
> existing repositories like sourceforge?  For family history related
> projects, the audience for most any project will expand beyond the
> Wasatch Mountains.  You could tag a project as LDS if you think its of
> interest.  I already have several projects on sourceforge, including
> one called topoged.
>
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