This presentation was given by Laurent Le Meur at the EPUB Summit, April 7th, 2016.

1. European Digital Reading Lab
EDRLab roadmap 2016
EPUB Summit
Laurent Le Meur
CTO EDRLab

2. 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

3. 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

4. Readium maintenance
● Participation to the
maintenance of the Chrome
extension and SDK
● Android toolchain
● Continuous build and
automated testing

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Readium documentation
● SDK, LCP client, LCP server
● High level, tutorials
● Detailed in-source documentation

9. Innovation & Research projects?
● Accessibility (France or
multinational project)
○ AVH & BrailleNet
○ Daisy
○ PubCoder
○ Mantano
● Education (European project)
○ CWI
○ ...

10. 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.

11. Thank you!
"Access to information and knowledge is the single most
powerful tool available to promote world peace"
(G. Kerscher, DAISY)