An OPDS server may use the service_description extension to describe itself. This is distinct from the standard description field, which is to be used to describe the text prompt displayed to the authenticating user.
"service_description": "Here you can get all sorts of free books!",
This is useful for discovery; it explains to users why they would want to connect to one OPDS server versus another.
This is one of a series of proposals for taking NYPL's extensions to Authentication For OPDS and adding them to the core document.
https://github.com/NYPL-Simplified/Simplified/wiki/Authentication-For-OPDS-Extensions#server-description
An OPDS server may use the
service_descriptionextension to describe itself. This is distinct from the standarddescriptionfield, which is to be used to describe the text prompt displayed to the authenticating user.This is useful for discovery; it explains to users why they would want to connect to one OPDS server versus another.