Inclusive EPUB 3 Exemplar

Directory Structure

This project is organized according to books and their resources:

    ./book-title
        mimetype
        /META-INF
        /Content
            /html
            /images
            /videos
            /audio
            ...
    ./book-title-2
        ...

Each book is a root directory labelled by its title. Within each book directory are sub-directories containing all the resources required to create the EPUB 3 container.

Notes

• Some resources (i.e. videos and audio) may contain further instructions, refer to these directories for additional instructions.
• Additional books will be siblings at the root level.

Installation Steps

1. Get EPUB exemplar content.
2. Install some EPUB readers to test with.
3. Build EPUB using zip

1 EPUB Exemplar Content

1. Use git to get a copy of the EPUB repository: https://github.com/fluid-project/EPUB
2. Change directory into EPUB directory.
3. Save the videos from the following links into the ./videos/ directory.
   
   • https://idrc.cachefly.net/floeproject.org/videos/Free_Body_Diagrams.mp4
   • https://idrc.cachefly.net/floeproject.org/videos/Free_Body_Diagrams.webm
   • https://idrc.cachefly.net/floeproject.org/videos/Relative_Velocity.mp4
   • https://idrc.cachefly.net/floeproject.org/videos/Relative_Velocity.webm

2 Testing Tools

The following EPUB readers are used for testing:

• iBooks - iOS or OSX 10.8 or later
• Readium - Chrome web browser extension
• Lucifox
• Calibre

3 Building EPUB

To build the EPUB archive:

In the physics-forces_and_motion directory, create a ZIP archive containing the contents of the folder:
the mimetype file, the META-INF folder and the Content folder.
NOTE: You must ensure that the mimetype file is the first item in the archive.

For example, to use the zip command on the command line to create an archive called physics.epub:

> cd physics-forces_and_motion
> zip -X physics.epub mimetype
> zip -XDr physics.epub META-INF Content

Helpful Resources

• Inclusive EPUB 3 - Inclusive Learning Design Handbook
• EPUB Samples Project
• IDPF EPUB Validator
• IDPF command-line EPUB validator