Hi Rodrigo:
Question 1:
Yes, you can upload EPUB files. Whether DSpace will automatically recognize
the format depends on:
* whether you have created a new EPUB format in your bitstream format
registry (it is not present by default). This is a standard administrative
operation (see docs). I believe the accepted mime-type associated
with EPUB container files is 'application/epub+zip'
* whether the EPUB files you want to upload have extensions (like
'.ePub') that match those you defined in the format. DSpace does simple file
extension mapping to determine format type.
For example, if you had extensions 'EPUB', 'ePub', and no other
formats had those extensions, then all content will we assigned to the the EPUB
format that bore those file extensions.
Question 2:
Yes, users should be able to download and view these files - *provided*
they have client-side rendering tools for EPUBs. DSpace is no different in this
regard than Barnes&Noble or any other
EPUB provider - it merely supplies the file. Support varies in tablets
for commercial reasons, but generally is pretty good.
Hope this helps,
Richard R
On Dec 20, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Calloni, Rodrigo wrote:
Hello
We are using DSpace 1.8 XMLUI.
I want to know about the DSpace support for ePub files. Are there any news
about this?
While searching this topic in Google I found the following tread posted last
year: http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/epub-td4655710.html
So I have 2 basic questions:
1) Can we upload ePubs in DSpace? Will it recognize the file format?
2) Are users capable of downloading and opening an ePub that was added to
DSpace (for example, adding it in their iBooks shelf)?
Thanks in advance
Rodrigo
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