Thanks, Eric. Is the original code online anywhere? I will eventually write
some XSL:FO to generate PDFs for people who want those, for some reason.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Jan 13, 2016, at 4:17 PM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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)…
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> I wrote a similar thing a number of years ago, and it was implemented as
> Alex Lite. [1] I started out with TEI files, and then transformed them into
> a number of derivatives: simple HTML, “cooler” HTML, PDF, and ePub. I think
> my ePub version was somewhere around 2.0. The “framework” was written in
> Perl, of course.  ;-)  The whole of a Alex Lite was designed to be given
> away on CD or as an instant website. (“Just add water."). The hard part of
> the whole thing was the creation of the TEI files in the first place. After
> that, everything was relatively easy.
>
> [1] Alex Lite blog posting - http://bit.ly/eazpJY
> [2] Alex Lite - http://infomotions.com/sandbox/alex-lite/
>
> —
> Eric Lease Morgan
> Artist- And Librarian-At-Large
>
> (A man in a trench coat approaches, and says, “Psst. Hey buddy, wanna buy
> a registration to the Code4Lib conference!?”)
>