This is a template for open and freely licensed texts that delivers appealing, and depending on the template, multimedia results. It additionally automates a lot of laborious work during creation. This template can be used for courses or modules as well as for all sorts of texts, including student research papers or theses.

• generates metadata in HTML headers for OER repositories and Google search
• automatically creates license notices according to the TULLU-rule for Wikimedia images with machine-readable notices according to CC REL
• inserts license notice in generated documents

With every save (commit) the following documents are generated:

• Ebook
• PDF
• HTML

This project can be used as template for your own OER.

• use this repository on GitHub as template
  • click the green button Use this template or click here
  • enter a name for the new repository and click on Create repository from template
• activate pages in the settings -> Source: GitHub Actions
• adjust metadata.yml
  • manually
  • with the metadata generator
• customize Markdown files (default chapterXX.md)
  • attention: order according to alphabetical sorting of file names

The files are generated automatically and are usually ready after < 1 min.

• 2019-11-07 - Machine-readable marking of images according to CC REL.
• 2019-10-28 - Automatic TULLU rule for Wikimedia images.
• 2019-10-28 - Automatic license notice based on metadata in metadata.yml.

You can find more ideas for improvement at Tasks. If you have suggestions or improvement requests, feel free to comment or create issues there.

This template for OER courses is released under CC-0 / public domain. The content of the course is subject to the respective license as indicated at the end of the generated files or in the metadata.yml.