{"id":55,"date":"2006-08-22T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2006\/08\/22\/digipalooza-begins\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T18:10:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:10:25","slug":"digipalooza-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2006\/08\/22\/digipalooza-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Digipalooza begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overdrive&#8217;s first annual user group meeting was held in Cleveland, OH July 26-28. Mixing audio book publishers, public librarians, and hardware manufacturers, the gathering showcased innovative uses of digital media and upcoming features from Overdrive. New additions include a wiki for users (<a href=\"http:\/\/dlrwiki.overdrive.com\">dlrwiki.overdrive.com<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dlrwiki.overdrive.com\">)<\/a>, improved collection development tools with preordering capabilities and RSS feeds, and multilingual capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Although Overdrive content is not available for iPods, Overdrive &#8220;is hopeful that Apple and Microsoft can reach an agreement that would enable support for Microsoft-based DRM-protected materials on the iPod\/Mac.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the New York Public Library announced their plans to roll out a direct download service (<a href=\"http:\/\/ebooks.nypl.org\">ebooks.nypl.org<\/a>), which will enable patrons to read digital content directly from their phones and other devices.<\/p>\n<p>This is a welcome development, since discovery and download is quite a process right now. It took me over 30 minutes to figure out how to get the Mobipocket version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcatlibraries.org\/oclc\/57207630\">Freakonomics <\/a>onto my Treo, and it was a little disheartning to find that the old models of print (placing holds, books that expire) have been replicated. I did like the lack of overdue fines, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2006\/08\/22\/digipalooza-begins\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Digipalooza begins\"><p>Overdrive&#8217;s first annual user group meeting was held in Cleveland, OH July 26-28. Mixing audio book publishers, public librarians, and hardware manufacturers, the gathering showcased innovative uses of digital media and upcoming features from Overdrive. New additions include a wiki for users (dlrwiki.overdrive.com), improved collection development tools with preordering capabilities and RSS feeds, and multilingual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1717,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-conference","7":"category-design","8":"category-open-content","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Tn4G-T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}