Hi all,

I've been working on and off for a few months on a system for publishing
ebooks, ETDs, and other digital library materials online to a more
consolidated "Digital Library" application (
http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary). The framework (
https://github.com/AmericanNumismaticSociety/etdpub) was initially designed
for quick and easy PDF indexing and publication of ETDs, but has evolved to
a TEI publication framework for the NEH-Mellon Humanities Open Book Program
grant we received recently.

Part of this grant stipulates that open access books be made available in
EPUB 3.0.1, so I got to work on a pipeline for dynamically serializing TEI
into EPUB. It works pretty well, but there are some minor issues. The
issues might be related more to differences between individual ereader apps
in supporting the 3.0.1 spec than anything I might have done wrong in the
serialization process (the file validates according to a script I've been
running).

We published our first open access ebook today:
http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/id/Miller-ANS-Medals. There's a link
on the right to the EPUB file. I would greatly appreciate any feedback you
can provide. I created a survey that will help in usability testing:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10Prvpm5eDvjNZaeqgXZ7luLeSkVrOgZ3hJX5zjFBuSg/viewform
.

There is a dearth of decent information about EPUB usability testing on the
web.

If you are interested in more information about the framework, there's
http://eaditor.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-ans-digital-library-look-under-hood.html
and
http://eaditor.blogspot.com/2016/01/first-ebook-published-to-ans-digital.html.
It's highly LOD aware and is capable of posting to a SPARQL endpoint so
that information can be accessed from other archival frameworks and
integrated into projects like Pelagios.

Ethan