We use OPDS at http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz and have for a while now.
Basically it's an extra namespace that you can use in your RSS with
extra information for ebook readers / consumers. Other RSS readers /
consumers silently ignore the namespace, so done right you only need one
RSS feed.
We
Bigwood, David wrote:
> I recently became aware of Open Publication Distribution System
> (OPDS) Catalog format, a syndication format for e-pubs based on Atom
> & HTTP.
mobile bookreaders have native opds support (i'm happy with aldiko or
moonreader on android).
for my personal epub collection i
David,
I've played around with OPDS with some personal projects. It's built into
the excellent consumer eBook catalog software Calibre, and there's a
project called Calibre2ODPS i fiddled with to generate the HTML for my
BookBox project back in 2011.
http://brettlwilliams.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/
I recently became aware of Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog
format, a syndication format for e-pubs based on Atom & HTTP. It is something
like an RSS feed for e-books. People are using it to find and acquire books. It
sounds like a natural fit for library digitization projects
