Library Cataloging
Add Open Publishing Distribution System(OPDS) to the slew of metadata acronyms to be aware of.
- Open Publication Distribution System
Well, I'm back to the weblog again because an idea has taken hold of me. 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...
- Accurate Metadata Sells Books
Accurate Metadata Sells Books by Calvin Reid appears in a recent Publishers Weekly. Now, Dawson said, accurate metadata has become a marketing tool for publishers, a shopping guide for consumers, and an absolute necessity for distributors and retailers....
- Bookserver Specification
A specification is being developed for distribution of books via a catalog, the OpenPub standard.OpenPub is an initiative of Lexcycle, Adobe, the Internet Archive, and O'Reilly Media to create an Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) enabling...
- Rss For Tocs
RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers by Lisa Rogers provides some advise based on experience.Publishers are using various versions of feeds such as RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, RSS 0.91 and...
- New Rss Book
Developing Feeds with Rss and Atom is a new book from O'Reilly I'll have to check out. It covers:metadata interpretationthe different forms of content syndicationthe increasing use of web serviceshow to use popular RSS news aggregators on the...
Library Cataloging
OPDS
Add Open Publishing Distribution System(OPDS) to the slew of metadata acronyms to be aware of.
Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other content.How this compares to OAI-PMH I'll have to investigate. When would one or the other be most appropriate? What tools are there to create it and use it?
- Open Publication Distribution System
Well, I'm back to the weblog again because an idea has taken hold of me. 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...
- Accurate Metadata Sells Books
Accurate Metadata Sells Books by Calvin Reid appears in a recent Publishers Weekly. Now, Dawson said, accurate metadata has become a marketing tool for publishers, a shopping guide for consumers, and an absolute necessity for distributors and retailers....
- Bookserver Specification
A specification is being developed for distribution of books via a catalog, the OpenPub standard.OpenPub is an initiative of Lexcycle, Adobe, the Internet Archive, and O'Reilly Media to create an Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) enabling...
- Rss For Tocs
RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers by Lisa Rogers provides some advise based on experience.Publishers are using various versions of feeds such as RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, RSS 0.91 and...
- New Rss Book
Developing Feeds with Rss and Atom is a new book from O'Reilly I'll have to check out. It covers:metadata interpretationthe different forms of content syndicationthe increasing use of web serviceshow to use popular RSS news aggregators on the...