This is an implementation of an Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) catalog for the SciELO Books application.

To allow a user with an OPDS compatible e-reader application or device to browse the catalog of books available through the SciELO Books portal.

• OPDS 1.1 compliant implementation, validated through Benoît Larroque's validator

• navigability and data quality verified via manual testing with an OPDS compatible e-reader application
• navigation feed with links sorted by title, author, subject, publisher, acquisition type (open-access, buy)
• one acquisition feed per publisher

The following features are outside the scope of this job and will not be implemented at this time:

• search
• dedicated crawlable feeds (for bulk download of metadata)

• Aldiko (Android): http://www.aldiko.com/
• Bluefire (Android, iOS): http://www.bluefirereader.com/
• FBreader (Android, Symbian, Meego etc.): http://www.fbreader.org/
• Stanza (acquired by Amazon.com and discontinued)

2012-02-13

deployable app, serving metadata from a small fixture of catalog records

2012-02-20

one navigation feed acquiring metadata from SciELO Books via a Web service

2012-02-27

all views acquiring metadata from SciELO Books via Web services