Epub metadata support

Was wondering if there are any plans to support epub metadata in the metadata pane?

Got any good info on it? Which fields are the most useful?

Okay a brief collection of links and reference to Sigil which allows epub metadata changes:

Epub on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

Metadata specification (epub 3.0) http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#sec-metadata-elem

Open source app (Sigil) that allows metadata changes http://code.google.com/p/sigil/

Link to Sigil source code http://code.google.com/p/sigil/downloads/list

If you install Sigil and open any epub book you can hit F8 key to edit meta data. There is a button that says "add basic" which gives you a list of the common epub fields used.

Basically epub is just a zipped up hierarchy of files one of which is content.opf, within here is a metadata xml field that contains all the metadata (look at it within sigil for the structure)

(As an aside using cbxshell I'm able to view epub thumbnails (after cloning the shellex .cbr registry data field to .epub) in Opus which is kinda cool.)

Another request for supporting epub metadata for info tooltips and file rename operations. Most useful fields:

  • Title
  • Author
  • Author sort
  • Series
  • Number

If File Explorer has columns for those things that work with epub files then it should now be possible to use them in Opus via a small amount of script glue, which was can help with if you identify the Explorer columns.

I don't quite understand... What do you mean by "File Explorer" ? Is it the "Windows Explorer" ? I just added the Documents → Author column in a lister with an ePub (in DOpus, not Explorer) and nothing showed up.

I have added the .ePub extension to a DOpus group called "Documents", though, this may be unrelated, I am saying this just for completeness.

Are you referencing using some "Windows Explorer" extensions, that have been installed by 3rd party apps?

Otherwise I assume, a script needs to be written, that extracts the file containing the meta data (usually called "content.opf") from the ePub archive and xml-parse it for elements (and attributes) in the DublinCore/DublinCore-ExtendedTerms and OPF namespaces and then make them available to DOpus from where it could then be used for InfoTipps and Lister Columns.

I came around this post, since I would like to have them in the InfoTipp.

I could write such a script, so no need to post on that topic (if I'd be stuck, I would come back and ask politely :slight_smile:) I just wanted to make sure, I understand the post correctly.

Thanks.

There is no Windows Explorer anymore. It was renamed File Explorer in Windows 8.

Any column visible in File Explorer can be imported into Opus. So if you can see the information you need in File Explorer it should be possible to show the same information in Opus. It's done using a couple of lines of script code; we can help with that but we'd need to know which column and have an example document that populates the column.

Okay. Thanks for clarification!

You could use Columns: Extended EXIF. ExifTool should be able to read the tags from epub files. You just need to find the right tag names and insert them into the script.

Thanks @lxp, I will check this.