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Single Search for Ebooks: Daring to be SimplyE
Christine Peterson Amigos Library Services
Agenda
Why SimplyE? SimplyE Demonstration How It Works Upcoming Functionality Partners Leading the Way SimplyE in Texas
Single Search for Ebooks: Daring to be SimplyE Christine Peterson - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Single Search for Ebooks: Daring to be SimplyE Christine Peterson - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Single Search for Ebooks: Daring to be SimplyE Christine Peterson Amigos Library Services Why SimplyE? SimplyE Demonstration Agenda How It Works Upcoming Functionality Partners Leading the Way SimplyE in Texas Why SimplyE? SimplyE is an
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Why SimplyE?
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SimplyE is an open source ebook platform developed by libraries for libraries. It simplifies your patrons’ users experience finding, borrowing and reading an ebook from the library.
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What SimplyE Does
Turns this . . .
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What SimplyE Does
Into this . . .
Find Books Borrow or Download Read
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SimplyE Demo
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Swim Lanes
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Search
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Item Detail
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Item Detail
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Swim Lanes
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Novelist Integration
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Drilling Down
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Drilling Down
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Open Ebooks
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My Books Reservations Settings
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How It Works
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Amigos:
- Metadata
- Cover art
- Authentication
Ebook provider:
- Ebook files
- Statistics
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Open Technologies, Communities and Standards
OPDS
Open Publication Distribution System Bibliographic information
EPUB 2/3
Ebooks
OSS
Open Source Software Server & mobile software
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ILS (API/SIP) / Metadata
Non-OSS SimplyE Integrations
Ebook Supply & Host Content
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Upcoming Functionality
PDF Audiobooks
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Service Provider Integrations - Audiobooks
Type 1 Type 2
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Audiobook Features
- Discover audiobooks in catalog
- Borrow, download and return
audiobooks
- Play audiobooks
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Play/pause, skip forward & back (adjust skip time)
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Sleep timer
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TOC navigation
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“Scrubber” forward and back
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Position indication
- WCAG compliant
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Audiobook Features
- Discover audiobooks in catalog
- Borrow, download and return
audiobooks
- Play audiobooks
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Play/pause, skip forward & back (adjust skip time)
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Sleep timer
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TOC navigation
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“Scrubber” forward and back
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Position indication
- WCAG compliant
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PDF Features
- Discover non-DRM PDFs in
catalog
- Borrow, download and return
non-DRM PDFs
- Read non-DRM PDFs
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Navigate (TOC, in- document link, page through)
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Annotate (text), highlight
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Bookmark, sync
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Upcoming Functionality
Already implemented / soon
- PDF support; in beta
- Citations - Chicago, MLA, APA; initial
work done
- Bookmarks – initial work done
- Annotations – initial work done; working
- n device synchronization
- Geolocation – almost done
- Audiobook support
Coming
- Basic known searching
- Single sign-on (SAML) support
- Desktop / laptop functionality
- Additional content providers
- Additional ILS support
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Partners Leading the Way
Amigos Califa Connecticut State Library Lyrasis Maryland State Library Minitex
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Interest from Sloan Foundation
- Phase 1 – Collect information from academic libraries & content providers
- Phase 2 – Implementation
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DPLA Exchange
http://exchange.dp.la
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SimplyE at Amigos
Goal: to support libraries, public and academic, members and non-members, that want to implement SimplyE, but cannot do so themselves.
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Start-up Funding
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Where We Are
- Brazoria County (TX) live in October
- Houston PL testing within the week
- Definite interest from public libraries
- Understanding the technologies used
- Writing documentation for processes, configuration options
- Sharing what we have learned
- Become Amigos service open to members & non-members
Support academic version . . .
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- Monthly updates
- Follow our progress
- Help us with functionality
- Questions
- Try it out!
Christine Peterson peterson@amigos.org