Category Archives: Specification

OPDS 1.1 introduces key new features like faceted search/browsing & indirect acquisition. Here's the full changelog: support for facets (Spec) support for indirect acquisition (Spec #1, Spec #2 & Spec #3) recommendations for advanced search (Spec) new rel value for recommendations (Spec) new media parameter to identify navigation/acquisition feeds (Spec) updated Relax NG Schema (Spec) For a [...]

On behalf of the OPDS community, I am thrilled to announce that the draft OPDS 1.1 specification of the BookServer OPDS Catalog is available for review. We are soliciting feedback and comments on this version 1.1 draft. Please submit all critiques or comments to the OPDS mailing list by Monday, 27 June 2011.

The next revision for OPDS (1.1) will be released this summer and support new features such as faceted search/browsing and indirect acquisition. If you'd like to participate, join the OPDS mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/openpub Calls are also scheduled and announced on the mailing list on a regular basis. Meeting notes are available on our wiki: 23 [...]

Overall the changes between OPDS 0.9 and 1.0 are relative minor, and migration of OPDS 0.9 Catalogs to 1.0 should require minimal attention: OPDS Catalogs are now more generic to open the door to other electronic content in the future (audio/video, comics etc.) References to indirect acquisition have been removed.  Discussions will continue outside of [...]

The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publishing Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content.  OPDS Catalogs are an open standard designed to enable the discovery of digital content from any location, on any device, and for any application. [...]

On behalf of the OPDS community, I am thrilled to announce that the draft OPDS 1.0 specification of the BookServer OPDS Catalog is available for review. We are soliciting feedback and comments on this version 1.0 draft. Please submit all critiques or comments to the OPDS mailing list, or add an issue to the OPDS [...]

On 25 May 2010, the OPDS Catalog 0.9 specification was published and is now available at: http://opds-spec.org/specs/opds-catalog-0-9. This first formal release of the specification, timed to coincide with IDPF Digital Book 2010 and BookExpo America, starts our 60 day comment and review period before the stable 1.0 release, which is scheduled to be published 26 [...]

OPDS (Open Publication Distribution System) was first launched approximately one year ago, and today the OPDS community is very pleased to announce a call for comments on the first draft spec version, 0.9. The OPDS Catalogs 0.9 draft is ready for public review and we are soliciting feedback and comments. Please submit any and all [...]