[Web4lib] loading ebooks locally / archive?

[Thomas Dowling]

OhioLINK is locally loading e-books from several publishers using the
California Digital Library's XTF platform.  We've been quite pleased
with it for books that are natively XML, a little less so for books that
consist of PDF files.

Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


On 8/14/2007 10:15 AM, James Knight wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> For those of you out there who get backup copies (ftp download, CD; XML/PDF)
> of your ebook purchases from the likes of Gale, Ovid, et al., do you have
> plans to, or actually make use of this content by loading it into local DBs
> or exposing it on a search UI?
> 
> If so, what technology is (or might be) involved? I know that most libraries
> nowadays post holdings records for these titles in their OPACs, but beyond
> that (and this really is a separate question), what other tools do you use
> to expose ebook content on your library's web(s).
>