Host
W3C gratefully acknowledges O'Reilly for hosting this workshop.
Workshop Sponsor
W3C organizational sponsors
If you're interested in being a sponsor, please contact J. Alan Bird at abird@w3.org or +1 617 253 7823. For additional information, please visit the Sponsorship program.
Topics for the Workshop
The Program Committee will primarily be looking at the following topics for the Workshop:
Production:
- standardization issues, including relationship to current and future W3C standards like HTML, SVG, MathML, Web API-s, metadata, etc.
- layout definition and control (fixed and adaptive layout, high quality typesetting, font definition and management, etc.)
- accessibility (authoring accessibility guidelines including graphics, fallbacks)
- voice control
Presentation:
- color management and conversion
- device descriptions
- widgets definitions, standardization
- conformance (definitions, requirements, testing methodologies, certification)
- ergonomy
Distribution:
- DRM management (including interoperable and open DRM systems, social DRM, etc.)
- unique identification of eBooks
- outreach and deployment
- packaging
- metadata storage and vocabularies
Other topics may also be considered with a lower priority for this workshop (but may become the main topic for other events):
- browser based vs. standalone readers
- monetization, (micro-)payment
- media codecs
- book production workflow
- internationalization and localization issues
- dictionaries and glossaries
- index generation
- context based advertizing