International Digital Publishing Forum

See: IDPF, EPUB, Dublin Core Standard, OEB, OPS.

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References

• http://www.idpf.org/
  • The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is the trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry.
  • What is EPUB, .epub, OPS/OCF & OEB? .epub" is the file extension of an XML format for reflowable digital books and publications. ".epub" is composed of three open standards, the Open Publication Structure (OPS), Open Packaging Format (OPF) and Open Container Format (OCF), produced by the IDPF. "EPUB" allows publishers to produce and send a single digital publication file through distribution and offers consumers interoperability between software/hardware for unencrypted reflowable digital books and other publications. The Open eBook Publication Structure or "OEB", originally produced in 1999, is the precursor to OPS.
• http://www.idpf.org/about.htm
  • The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is a trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion of electronic publishing.
  • The work of the IDPF will foster and promote the development of electronic publishing applications and products that will benefit creators of content, makers of reading systems and consumers.
  • The IDPF welcomes book, magazine, journal and newspaper publishers, booksellers, software developers, authors and other groups interested in digital reading to join our organization.
• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OEBPS
  • Open eBook (or OEB) is the e-book format based on XML format and defined by Open Publication Structure (OPS) specification.
  • In its essence, it is a JAR package (a zip file plus a manifest). Inside the package a defined subset of XHTML may be used, along with other CSS and the Dublin Core metadata. The default file extension is .opf (OEB Package Format).
• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epub#IDPF.2FEPUB
  • The .epub or OEBPS format is an open standard for eBooks created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It combines three IDPF open standards:
    • Open Publication Structure (OPS) 2.0, which describes the content markup (either XHTML or Daisy DTBook)
    • Open Packaging Format (OPF) 2.0, which describes the structure of an .epub in XML
    • OEBPS Container Format (OCF) 1.0, which bundles files together (as a renamed ZIP file)
  • Currently, the format can be read by Adobe Digital Editions, Lexcycle Stanza, BookGlutton and the Mozilla Firefox plugin OpenBerg Lector. Several other reader software programs are currently implementing support for the format, such as dotReader, FBReader, Mobipocket and Okular. Another software .epub reader, Lucidor, is in beta. As of 7/23/2008, an update to the Sony Reader will allow the device to read .epub documents. [3] In 2008 BookGlutton released a free HTML-to-EPUB converter.

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