Hi Emmanuel,

I contributed to the early OPDS spec design, and OLPC uses it for
bookserver tools used by various school deployments. Bastien has some good
links below.

SJ


Bastien Guerry writes:  (sorry, not sure why your emails are still being
held)

> You might be interested in these OLPC project, which uses OPDS
> as a format for distributing ebooks through a local server:
>
> * Book Server 0.01: Pathagar + Sheeva Plug for offline reading
>  http://blog.laptop.org/2011/10/28/book-server-01/
>
> * Pathagar OPDS Book Server - SheevaPlug Edition
> http://olpcsf.org/projects/pathagar-sheevaplug-edition
>
> * Pathagar: A Book Server
> http://www.slideshare.net/sverma/pathagar-a-book-server
>
> HTH,
>
> --
>  Bastien


On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi
>
> I discovered today OPDS (Open Publication Distribution System) which is
> a XML feed norm to spread e-books catalogs. You may get more information
> at:
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/OPDS
>
> This seems to be pretty new but looks to be an interesting initiative. I
> developed a straightforward XML feed for Kiwix content manager; this
> works but using standards is often a better approach than re-inventing
> the wheel (no idea why exactly I did not heard about that at the time I
> was working on my own XML feed system).
>
> Does someone have information/know-how/feedback about OPDS?
>
> Regards
> Emmanuel
>
>
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