European Digital Reading Lab

EDRLab roadmap 2016

EPUB Summit

Laurent Le MeurCTO EDRLab

Started

● Start -> November 2015● Projects based on positive values ...● Five people involved for far:

○ 2 developers, ○ 1 evangelist, ○ 1 student, ○ 1 CTO

● Asap: european freelancers, on a per project basis.

● Current focus on software (Readium)○ enabler

Openness

Interoperability

Accessibility

Communication / EPUB & Readium

● This EPUB Summit

● Participation to e-publishing events in Europe

● Website / news, articles and EPUB tools reviews

● F2F meetings with members and to-be members

● Efforts to convince members to become active Readium or IDPF contributors

Readium maintenance

● Participation to the maintenance of the Chrome extension and SDK

● Android toolchain

● Continuous build and automated testing

Readium LCP

● Workshops (high-level / technical)

● Client development (thanks to Mantano/DRM Inside/TEA contributions)

● Participation to the Server development (thanks to DeMarque contribution)

● Certification (contractual matters,)

● Automated compliance testing

○ with DRM Inside More on LCP during the workshop

Mobile sample apps

● Thanks to NYPL large contribution (Library Simplified)

● iOS and Android

● LCP support

● Very simple functionalities (bookmarks, basic search & annotations)

● Testbed for EPUB evolutions

Desktop app prototype

● Read an EPUB 3 publication by a simple double-click

● Windows, MacOS, Linux

● LCP support

● Hybrid technologies, will rely on JS code from the Cloud Reader

Readium documentation

● SDK, LCP client, LCP server

● High level, tutorials

● Detailed in-source documentation

Innovation & Research projects?

● Accessibility (France or multinational project)

○ AVH & BrailleNet○ Daisy○ PubCoder○ Mantano

● Education (European project)

○ CWI○ ...

Special thanks to

● EDRLab funding members for their efforts kickstarting the Lab

● Sources of grants dedicated to specific projects:

○ Ministry of Culture, France: communication on EPUB/Readium and Readium LCP

○ Ministry of Economy & Industry, France : mobile apps, documentation

○ CNL / Centre National du Livre, France: desktop app hybrid prototype

● All EDRLab members, which are the flesh of the association, give guidance and share our efforts.

Thank you!

"Access to information and knowledge is the single most powerful tool available to promote world peace"

(G. Kerscher, DAISY)