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ContentSourcesWithoutAPI
Many content sources used by libraries cannot be integrated into the Library Simplified ecosystem because they don't have an API that meets our requirements.
Working on an ODL-based interface, but it's not ready yet.
Ebooks, delivered through a web view. Available through NYPL, where access is gated and content served through EZProxy.
Ebooks, delivered through a web view. Here's the closest I could get to actual content, and to the catalog.
Not sure how authentication works.
Ebooks seem to be the focus. The login site seems to imply the existence of an ILS integration. I don't know what the catalog looks like.
Videos. No custom app.
Magazines. Custom app, no API.
Comics. Custom app, no API.
All three of these sites are from Scholastic and combine ebooks with videos through a web view.
BookFlix is available at NYPL, where authentication is handled and content is delivered through EZProxy.
hoopla offers several media formats: ebooks, movies, music etc. They stream content to the patron's device via a custom app.
Patrons choose a library that offers hoopla service, then verify their membership in that library by providing barcode and (optional) PIN. Presumably this is done through an ILS integration. Apart from this ILS integration, hoopla offers no integrations to a library system.
Even if we can get the content, the experience these services provide probably won't fit into the Simplified app because the content they deliver is not in a container that we can reasonably render. In most cases the best we can possibly do is open a web view and transparently handle authentication.
Lynda.com offers an API that includes authorization hooks and collection information delivered through MARC records. So we could probably show lists of courses in OPDS, and send the patron to a web view once they chose a course.
Custom app, no apparent API.
Available at NYPL, where authentication happens through and content is served through EZProxy. No visible or advertised API.
Available at NYPL, where authentication happens through and content is served through EZProxy. No visible or advertised API.
No visible or advertised API. Sales page has few details.