Welcome to ELVIRA
ELVIRA is an open publication catalog, web portal and PDF viewer built around the OPDS family of specifications. Developed at FIIT STU in Bratislava. In production at FIIT STU and KU Ružomberok.
These docs are deliberately short. They’re the on-ramp, not the encyclopedia. For everything else, the wiki and the auto-generated OpenAPI are authoritative.
What you’ll find here
- Architecture overview — how the catalog, portal, viewer and workers fit together.
- Standards — every spec the platform implements and where the catalog mounts them.
- Quickstart — getting a local instance up.
- Reference — links to the wiki, OpenAPI and protocol definition.
Where to go next
- The Ecosystem map is the visual version of the architecture overview.
- Every repo worth showing is on the Projects page.
- For changelog and release notes, see the catalog CHANGELOG.