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