14:13:38 RRSAgent has joined #dpub 14:13:38 logging to http://www.w3.org/2015/09/28-dpub-irc 14:13:40 RRSAgent, make logs public 14:13:40 Zakim has joined #dpub 14:13:42 Zakim, this will be dpub 14:13:42 I do not see a conference matching that name scheduled within the next hour, trackbot 14:13:43 Meeting: Digital Publishing Interest Group Teleconference 14:13:43 Date: 28 September 2015 14:13:48 zakim, code? 14:13:48 I have been told this is WebEx https://mit.webex.com/mit/j.php?MTID=m09c698f2da7d2f28d301b85cf2d76b08 with password dpub, dial in 644 278 410 14:14:08 Agenda: http://www.w3.org/mid/5605A7A8.8090603@gmail.com 14:14:18 Chair: Markus 14:15:06 Regrets: Tzviya, Leonard, Vladimir, Alan, Jeff, Luc 14:20:14 rego has joined #dpub 14:31:15 rego has joined #dpub 14:42:15 rego has joined #dpub 14:51:16 rego has joined #dpub 14:53:10 mgylling has joined #dpub 14:57:25 brady_duga has joined #dpub 14:57:50 dauwhe has joined #dpub 14:58:50 present+ Dave_Cramer 14:59:08 pkra has joined #dpub 14:59:13 present+ duga 14:59:59 HeatherF has joined #dpub 15:00:17 rego has joined #dpub 15:00:29 present+ Heather_Flanagan 15:00:37 dkaplan3 has joined #dpub 15:00:58 Present+ ivan 15:01:20 present+ Deborah_Kaplan 15:01:20 Present+ Markus 15:01:38 Present+ Peter Krautzberger 15:02:44 Bill_Kasdorf has joined #dpub 15:03:14 zakim, pick a victim 15:03:14 Not knowing who is chairing or who scribed recently, I propose Markus 15:03:22 LOL 15:03:26 pbelfanti has joined #dpub 15:03:28 O:-) 15:03:31 zakim, pick a victim 15:03:31 Not knowing who is chairing or who scribed recently, I propose Dave_Cramer 15:03:47 Bert has joined #dpub 15:03:54 zakim, who is here? 15:03:54 Present: Dave_Cramer, duga, Heather_Flanagan, ivan, Deborah_Kaplan, Markus, Peter, Krautzberger 15:03:56 On IRC I see Bert, pbelfanti, Bill_Kasdorf, dkaplan3, HeatherF, pkra, dauwhe, brady_duga, mgylling, Zakim, RRSAgent, shepazu, Karen, ivan, liam, iank, astearns, plinss, trackbot 15:03:57 scribenick: dauwhe 15:04:01 Present+ 15:04:07 Present+ Bert 15:04:07 mgylling: let's get going 15:04:08 Present+ 15:04:14 http://www.w3.org/2015/09/21-dpub-minutes.html 15:04:16 ... first order of business is to approve minutes 15:04:22 TimCole has joined #dpub 15:04:22 zakim, who is here? 15:04:22 Present: Dave_Cramer, duga, Heather_Flanagan, ivan, Deborah_Kaplan, Markus, Peter, Krautzberger, pbelfanti, Bert, Bill_Kasdorf 15:04:22 ... any objections? 15:04:24 On IRC I see TimCole, Bert, pbelfanti, Bill_Kasdorf, dkaplan3, HeatherF, pkra, dauwhe, brady_duga, mgylling, Zakim, RRSAgent, shepazu, Karen, ivan, liam, iank, astearns, plinss, 15:04:24 ... trackbot 15:04:27 [silence] 15:04:35 ... minutes are approved 15:05:02 ... we'd spend one of these telecons on the glossary (foreboding music plays in background) 15:05:17 ... we want to get to a FPWD 15:05:25 http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Glossary 15:05:27 ... the intent is it will be an IG note eventually 15:05:46 ... Ivan, what's your view of where we're at? 15:06:01 -> http://w3c.github.io/dpub-pwd/ Editor's draft of the new EPUB+WEB document 15:06:05 Julie_Morris has joined #dpub 15:06:12 ivan: So, where should we start? 15:06:15 present+ Karen 15:06:16 present + Julie_Morris 15:06:28 ... there were two reasons 15:06:34 He fades in and out for me, too 15:06:49 ... why this issue on glossary was important 15:06:49 Present+ Tim_Cole 15:07:03 ... one is what Markus said; we had to produce a new version of EPUB+WEB document 15:07:11 ... since it will be a public note of the IG 15:07:19 ... but there was also another issue 15:07:32 ... this is more coming from the web community rather than the community here 15:07:45 ... from webdevs and browser folk 15:07:53 ... why do we need anything at all? 15:08:06 ... why do publishers need anything else other than what the web already provides? 15:08:16 ... we have been publishing web pages for 20 years! 15:08:28 ... we have to be very clear in what we are talking about 15:08:38 ... we are not talking about gmail pages 15:08:51 ... difference between publishing and web at large 15:09:00 ... so this led to the discussion I started a while ago 15:09:08 ... and that's what's now in the glossary page 15:09:16 rego has joined #dpub 15:09:27 ... I put up some initial things 15:09:50 ... I naively put up some definitions for document / publication 15:09:59 ... that led to a thread 15:10:18 .. with more than a hundred emails on a specific topic 15:10:41 ... talking about portable web things 15:10:54 ... we did reach equilibrium when talking about portable web documents 15:11:04 ... do we want to get into details? 15:11:10 mgylling: yes, we should get into details 15:11:29 ivan: the goal was to define a class of documents 15:11:40 ... web pages or collection of web pages that work on and offline 15:11:54 ... we had start with more fundamental things 15:12:00 ... started with concept of web resource 15:12:03 ... a very general thing 15:12:15 ... a thing on the web that can be identified by a URI 15:12:29 ... and can be accessed by various protocols 15:12:42 ... we also needed something called essential content 15:12:56 ... dkaplan was great in finding out these terms were defined in a11y 15:13:10 ... part of web pages are really important for the message 15:13:19 ... some parts are "nice to have" but less important 15:13:25 ... example: 15:13:49 ... font statements. In most cases it's OK if the user agent picks one of the fonts 15:13:59 ... but if book is on typography the font might be essential 15:14:12 ... the next step is we define a web document 15:14:28 ... we don't concentrate on one single file 15:14:39 ... but a set of resources that together is an identifiable thing 15:14:45 ... like a scholarly article or a book 15:14:54 ... one or more html pages, svg, js, etc 15:15:01 ... it's that set which is the central notion 15:15:11 ... has it's own URI 15:15:17 ... that's one of the central concepts 15:15:22 q? 15:15:38 ... there are a number of qualifiers of what web doc should look like 15:15:43 ... if the tech around us changes 15:15:56 ... so we get poorer environment or smaller screen 15:16:08 ... we should get graceful degradation but keep essential content 15:16:26 ... there are smaller discussions between Bill K. and I around web document vs web publication 15:16:33 q+ 15:16:33 mgylling: there's an issue in the tracker 15:16:41 ivan: there are some minor forumulation issues 15:16:54 ... final point is that we define what it means to be portable 15:17:05 ... because a web doc can be a collection of all kinds of resources 15:17:26 ... I may have a dependency on some CSS file on the other side of the globe 15:17:33 ... so there's an issue of portability 15:17:46 ... the user agent can render the essential content of the document in such situations 15:17:49 q+ 15:17:52 ... then there's a portable web document 15:18:06 ... this is where we are carving out the things that are on the web 15:18:16 ... there is an equilibrium point on these terms 15:18:17 rego has joined #dpub 15:18:23 ... there are some details to be discussed 15:18:28 q? 15:18:35 ... before we get into the questions 15:18:47 ... Deborah was a great participant in this discussion 15:18:55 ... Leonard has sent regrets 15:19:05 dkaplan3: that was a good summary 15:19:06 q? 15:19:09 ack brady 15:19:11 ... and of the points that are still pending 15:19:32 brady_duga: how is our definition of web document different from other definitions 15:19:43 ivan: which other definition are you referring to? 15:19:46 brady_duga: OK 15:19:59 ... if you just google web document wikipedia points to an old w3c spec 15:20:02 q+ 15:20:09 q+ 15:20:10 ... and it sounds a lot of what we already did 15:20:22 ivan: I think I remember dkaplan3 went through those 15:20:31 dkaplan3: the problem is that it's not the same 15:20:31 ack dkaplan 15:20:39 ... we're dealing with 2 industries 15:20:49 ... with two different meanings for documents 15:20:56 ... publishing is diff. than web at large 15:21:07 ... the terms we came up with are not the same as what w3c has 15:21:16 ... document as a resource 15:21:27 ... a way of defining a particular package of bits 15:21:50 ... document has intention, some intellectual thing attached unlike w3c definition 15:22:10 ... we are doing this because we are publishers who use English in this way 15:22:22 ... the web uses the same words in different ways 15:22:42 ... so our definition should be different than w3c definition 15:22:52 ivan: there is no widely accepted w3c definition 15:22:58 ... they are not fundamental to w3c 15:22:59 ack mgylling 15:23:06 mgylling: two questions 15:23:11 ... web documents 15:23:30 ... it strikes me that if you read it quickly it's not a very specific difference 15:23:42 ... we should highlight identifiability 15:23:55 ... you point it out, but only implicitly 15:24:06 ... maybe one of the bullets should call that out 15:24:19 ... "one URI" used to reference all the resources within the document 15:24:25 ... that's quite explosive stuff 15:24:37 ... there are 200 web pages that should be addressable by one URI 15:24:40 ack Bill 15:24:57 Bill_Kasdorf: so pleased to hear Brady and Deborah say those things 15:25:03 ... I'm coming from publishing side 15:25:11 ... from the web side 15:25:26 ... whether or not there's an authoriatiive definition from w3c 15:25:29 ... the word is used a lot 15:25:37 ... when we talk about heirarchy of headings 15:25:46 ... the top level section is an h1 15:25:49 ... the next is h2 15:25:53 ... and that's in your document 15:25:59 ... when you have a book with 20 chapters 15:26:05 ... and each chapte is a document 15:26:14 ... or a magazine with 20 independent articles 15:26:22 ... the h1 has to be the title of the book 15:26:33 ... I say no, my document is my chapter or article 15:26:36 ... now we have a problem 15:26:43 ... i think the web is saying 15:26:58 ... that s the document but not the publication 15:27:10 q? 15:27:17 rego has joined #dpub 15:27:17 ivan: just to make it clear 15:27:32 ... what you would prefer 15:27:42 ... is that we talk about web publications as a collection of resources 15:27:50 Bill_Kasdorf: documents are parts of publications 15:28:01 ... but a web pub could be a single document 15:28:07 ivan: I am ok with both 15:28:22 ... we need order in how we make such a decision 15:29:05 ivan: I haven't seen any major change 15:29:16 ... after a hundred emails I don't just make a change on the fly 15:29:33 mgylling: we do have a quorum here today; we can barge ahead 15:30:18 q+ 15:30:26 dauwhe: tend to think of these things as: we make publications and split them up for historic reasons (limitations) 15:30:32 ... mostly technical limitations. 15:30:34 q+ 15:30:43 ... e.g., html5 files 15:31:06 Bill_Kasdorf: I know lots of people who make an entire book with a single content document 15:31:06 (took over scribing a bit) 15:31:13 q? 15:31:29 Bill_Kasdorf: it's clearer with magazines, where they are indepenent 15:31:30 ack TimC 15:31:43 TimCole: with regards to bills last comment 15:31:52 ... it's not just the way the content provider thing 15:32:02 ... it's what needs to have identity 15:32:09 ... like http URIs 15:32:28 ... there may be a subsequent edition with a URI 15:32:46 ... and there will people who will think of the two things together as a thing 15:32:56 +1 to the identity concept as critical 15:33:04 ack dkap 15:33:05 ... we have to be careful 15:33:21 dkaplan3: searching for the perfect word is not going to work 15:33:31 ... just make it clear we define our terms in our namespace 15:33:40 ... we'll be dealing with people who use terms different 15:33:46 ... web folk will read "webbily" 15:34:00 ... publisher who does lots of anthologies will look at collections 15:34:15 ... the author of one essay will define their contribution as a document 15:34:36 ... we can't find a word that will work across all the horizontals 15:34:44 q+ 15:34:50 q? 15:34:54 ... any product of DPUB uses the terms as definedd in this glossary 15:35:02 ... this is a namespace problem 15:35:22 ack BillK 15:35:29 Bill_Kasdorf: I agree with dkaplan3 15:35:44 ... but if you agree we use it one way we can't use it the other way 15:35:50 ... you invite confusion 15:35:53 q+ 15:36:00 ack Bill_Kasdorf 15:36:10 ... the word document creates so much confusion 15:36:14 ack mgylling 15:36:17 rego has joined #dpub 15:36:21 ... use publication as the aggretation 15:36:27 mgylling: I agree with you dkaplan3 15:36:38 ... in my world document is very loaded already 15:36:43 ... a very specific thing in html 15:36:55 ... we are maybe inviting more confusion than necessary 15:37:10 ... but we should be very clear it's in our namespec 15:37:24 ivan: if there is anyone who will mildly criticize me if I change to publication? 15:37:29 +1 15:37:30 +1 15:37:31 +1 15:37:31 +1 15:37:31 +1 15:37:32 +1 15:37:33 +1 to publication 15:37:34 +1 15:37:39 mgylling: IRC poll--plus one if you want to change to publication 15:37:46 +1 15:37:57 ... why did we argue for ten minutes if we all agree? ;) 15:38:00 because Ivan is awesome. 15:38:00 ivan: can i move on? 15:38:14 ... what I also did is that I took the epubweb document 15:38:16 david_stroup has joined #dpub 15:38:19 http://w3c.github.io/dpub-pwd/ 15:38:26 ... and I tried to use the new terminology 15:38:43 ... we do want a FPWD 15:38:49 ... it's no longer a white paper 15:39:13 ... it would be helpful if you all could review this document and provide feedback and/or pull request 15:39:23 ... havinga stake in the ground is important 15:39:30 ... the next term is not yet closed 15:39:42 ... what is identifier 15:39:51 ... do we mean URI 15:39:55 ... do we mean something else 15:40:00 ... how do we use these terms 15:40:06 ... Bill_Kasdorf will love this topic 15:40:10 ... let's not start now 15:40:18 ... there is also the issue of semantics 15:40:24 ... my background is in semantics 15:40:42 ... maybe we want to have a clear idea of what we mean by semantics, metadata... 15:40:47 ... even in world of metadata 15:41:02 Re "semantics," I think we should clearly make the distinction between "structural semantics" and "content semantics." 15:41:22 ... the pub world using the term reading system 15:41:30 ... web world talks about browsers 15:41:50 ... we should settle this for the future 15:42:05 ... state of a portable web publication 15:42:10 ... we talked about offline and online 15:42:15 Re reading system vs. browser, how about "renderer" or "rendering agent"? 15:42:22 ... we realize that there are two dimensions 15:42:43 ... one is whether we talk about a set of web resrouces spread over filesystem or URI 15:42:53 ... or whether they are packaged into one format/package 15:43:06 ... for millions of reasons the notion of packageing is important 15:43:11 ... for distribution etc 15:43:23 ... the portable web is packaged or unpackaged... that's one dimension 15:43:34 e.g. a Braille rendering agent renders the publication in Braille (i.e., rendering doesn't need to mean visual, and we could define it as such in the glossary) 15:43:38 ... the other area is online vs offline and what it really means 15:43:54 ... its not clear what we mean by offline and online 15:44:10 ... could be http online vs no http offline but that's not true 15:44:14 ... I could use localhost 15:44:26 ... how do these things relate? 15:44:35 ... if we use on/offline we run into issue 15:44:54 ... I say what's important we HTTP-based protocols or filesystem protocols 15:45:05 ... whether HTTP is local or not is less interesting 15:45:06 +1 to the distinction between http vs. file system access 15:45:22 ... I would ask brady_duga 15:45:22 q? 15:45:29 ... in both cases we had Leonard 15:45:46 brady_duga: why is it important to determine which protocol accesses things 15:45:59 ... as a user the question is whether the pub is completely available 15:46:05 ...how I access that doesn't matter 15:46:27 ... you could have a remote publication 15:46:40 ... I don't know what this distinction is important 15:46:44 ivan: my feeling is 15:46:50 ... when it comes to user agent side 15:46:58 ... the architecture of the user agent 15:47:03 ... things like service workers 15:47:08 ... when we think about identifiers 15:47:17 ... that's where the difference comes in 15:47:27 ... i agree the distinction is unimportant for reader 15:47:33 ... but important in how things are realized 15:47:41 brady_duga: yes, for a browser that is true 15:47:47 ... for a reading system 15:47:52 ... there will be access issues 15:47:59 ... they will have to do different things 15:48:03 ivan: that's what I concentrate on 15:48:07 q? 15:48:07 mgylling: OK 15:48:31 ... what are pain thresold for FPWD? 15:48:40 ... how much do we want to settle before FPWD 15:48:42 ivan: two issues 15:48:54 ... publication vs document, we solved that 15:49:20 ... in the document I have added some additional wording on the kind of issue dkaplan3 alluded to, about context 15:49:25 ... there is another aspect 15:49:41 ... orthogonal to what we already did 15:49:58 ... I tried to make the whole concept independant of EPUB 15:50:16 ... the criticism was that it was describing EPUB4 15:50:43 ... so I tried to make this weaker, although the dependance on EPUB is still there 15:50:53 ... we don't want to provide a bad message to the industry 15:50:58 ... there is a fine line there 15:51:25 ... we don't know what Leonard wants to do 15:51:31 ... that will happen this week 15:51:33 q? 15:51:39 ... that's probably the biggest remaining issue 15:52:05 ... once this is done we can publish a FPWD 15:52:06 fyi in discussions on the magazine side and separately on the journals side there is a strong desire to include file types in a publication that EPUB currently doesn't allow 15:53:15 mgylling: for the other IG members, what kind of inputs would you want between now and FPWD? 15:53:25 ivan: for FPWD, general review is good 15:53:32 ... nothing specific 15:53:51 mgylling: do we want to look at time here, given pub moratoriums around TPAC? 15:54:02 ivan: I would love if there was an agreement on the content at the meeting next week 15:54:20 ... because it's a fpwd the IG must resolve to publish 15:54:34 ... we'll see if it can be done by next Monday 15:54:41 ... still OK if it goes to the next Monday 15:55:13 q? 15:55:37 non-benevolent? 15:55:46 mgylling: since we have a few minutes left 15:55:56 ... I'm looking at wiki 15:56:04 ... next-to-last bullet confuses me 15:56:06 “A Web Resource in a Web Document is Portable if an OWP compliant user agent can render its essential content by relying essentially on the Web Resources within the same Web Document” 15:56:16 ... this line confuses me 15:56:25 ... the trailing end... what does it mean 15:56:36 ivan: this means that when I produce a PWP 15:56:53 ... all the things that are essential like CSS and JS are part of that portable publication 15:57:21 ... an extreme case would be everything should be in the PWP, but things like fonts are perhaps not as essential 15:57:23 mgylling: ok 15:57:44 ... can a web resource be "without" a web document rather than "within" 15:57:51 ivan: the web doc might refer to fonts 15:58:05 ... are the font files themselves part of the web doc, or elsewhere on the web? 15:58:20 ... it should be portable even if the fonts aren't with it 15:58:35 ... but in some cases the font file must be part of the doc 15:58:40 ... an epub example 15:58:44 ... for some epubs 15:58:48 ... a scientific book 15:59:01 ... the data might have to be part of the book because I interact with it 15:59:08 ... in other cases it's ok if the data is on the web 15:59:11 mgylling: of course 15:59:28 ... so you have a portable web doc exploded online 15:59:33 ... so what does it mean then 15:59:41 ivan: is it part of the set or not? 15:59:55 ... everything that's necessary for that web document must be part of the set 16:00:06 Bill_Kasdorf: can some be offline or online? 16:00:25 ivan: then it's not portable 16:00:32 mgylling: I'll try to clarify in an email 16:01:02 All: thanks and bye 16:01:06 [beep] 16:04:45 brady_duga has joined #dpub 16:04:51 rrsagent, draft minutes 16:04:51 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2015/09/28-dpub-minutes.html ivan 16:05:30 trackbot, end telcon 16:05:30 Zakim, list attendees 16:05:30 As of this point the attendees have been Dave_Cramer, duga, Heather_Flanagan, ivan, Deborah_Kaplan, Markus, Peter, Krautzberger, pbelfanti, Bert, Bill_Kasdorf, Karen, Tim_Cole 16:05:38 RRSAgent, please draft minutes 16:05:38 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2015/09/28-dpub-minutes.html trackbot 16:05:39 RRSAgent, bye 16:05:39 I see no action items