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Goals
- Find Library Audiobooks user can borrow and play in SimplyE
- Download Library Audiobooks from Findaway in SimplyE
- Play Library Audiobooks from Findaway in SimplyE
- Support content distributed from Bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor and EBSCO Host Ebooks (distributed and protected by Findaway) in SimplyE
Background and strategic fit
SimplyE provides a simplified and elegant universal e-content discovery, lend and reading experience for library patrons who seek to read ebooks from the lirbary. As such the SimplyE app will need to support audiobook format ebooks as the format grows in adoption and popularity with library patrons. The project will include the integration of Audiobook player functionality and audiobook catalog materials discovery, lend and play functions of SimplyE. That work has a design and engineering component. The specific work will include integration of audiobook materials into the SimplyE discovery and borrowing UX. This requires a new audiobook player UI. There also will be a server integration component involving the Circulation Manager (CM). That work will specifically require minor modifications to the CM Admin Interface as well as the catalog’s and applications service gateway (e.g. interface to provider APIs for RB Digital, Bibliotheca and Baker & Taylor, and Findaway.)
MVP Scope for 3.0 Release
- Browse Audiobook content in SimplyE
- Search for Audiobook content in SimplyE
- Borrow an audiobook
- Reserve an audiobook
- View details page for an audiobook
- Listen to an audiobook
- Change audiobook settings
- Display icons indicating audiobook content type
- Accessible labeling of functions screens and buttons.
- Support only Findaway distributed content
Non Findaway protected content (Overdrive, RB Digital, Open Access or Public Domain)
Assumptions
- Resources are available to do this work at NYPL.
- Resources can be sequestered and or acquired to do the needed development.
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is targeted for a subsequent minor release post 3.0 release
Out-of-Scope for 3.0 Release
- As a User I want to open the TOC and see what chapter resources are available to listen to.
- As a User I want the application should to re-download resources should its network connection be lost and then returned
- As a user I want to see who the narrator is for a given title if available.
- As a user I want to see recommended titles of Audiobook I may also want to read
- As a user I want to see audiobooks by the same author or in the same series
- As a user I want to borrow audiobooks from the web so I can listen to them in SimplyE.
Requirements MVP
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| Accessible labeling of functions screens and buttons.
| MVP Scope for version 1
Non Findaway protected content (Overdrive, RB Digital, Open Access or Public Domain) is targeted for a subsequent minor release post 3.0 release |
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| Accessible labeling of functions screens and buttons. | Streaming content vs downloading the full audiobook is out of scope until we can support similar functionality from other content sources so the experience is uniform.
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| The Circulation Manger Admin interface and Web Catalog web apps provide librarians the ability to view, and manage their audiobooks in the circulation manager. Audiobook media types need to be properly displayed in the apps and their media type distinguished in the apps so librarians can manage their custom lists, content descriptions, and classifications. | Currently, the OPDS Web Catalog does not provide an indication of the media type or other functionality or indicator that would identify the book as an Audiobook. |
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