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David, I've played around with OPDS with some personal projects. It's built into the excellent consumer eBook catalog software Calibre, and there's a project called Calibre2ODPS i fiddled with to generate the HTML for my BookBox project back in 2011. http://brettlwilliams.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/the-bookbox-a-localized-portable-ebook-delivery-system-using-open-source-components/ There is a fair amount of support out there on the consumer end, like the Marvin ebook reader on IOS, FBreader on Android, etc. I think it fits more with integrated models where you distribute a reader application with the catalog baked in. Like RSS feeds, it's a little difficult to get the concept across to academics sometimes (or maybe it's just my academics :) ). Here's a list of public ODPS feeds http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/OPDS I think Project Gutenberg and a few others have ODPS feeds. It's talked about (in the context of Calibre) a fair amount on the MobileRead forums. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Bigwood, David <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > 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 for e-books. People are using it to find and > acquire books. It sounds like a natural fit for library digitization > projects. An easy way for folks to know what's new and grab a copy if they > like. > > So is anyone using this? Is it built into Omeka, Greenstone, DSpace or any > of our tools? If you do use it do you have separate feeds for different > projects. Say, one for dissertations, another for the local history project > and another for books by state authors. Or do you have just one large feed? > Is it being used by the DPLA or Internet Archive? How's it working for you? > > We have plenty of documents we have scanned as well as our own > publications. Might this be a good way to make them more discoverable? Or > is this just a tool no one is using? > > Thanks, > David Bigwood > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Lunar and Planetary Institute > > https://twitter.com/Catalogablog >