Publishing and more at W3C

IPTC Spring Meetings
17 May, London

https://www.w3.org/2017/Talks/0517-phila-iptc/

Ivan Herman speaking at the Semantic Web in Libraries Conference, November 2016

Continue to develop and promote EPUB as the packaged accessible interchange and delivery format for digital publications and advance the Open Web platform for publishing… ultimately realising an ambitious vision for fully Web-native Publications

IDPF, the International Digital Publishing Forum

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Lead Publishing to its Full Potential with the Web

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Crash Course in Groups at W3C

names of various groups at W3C, collated into different types - there are a lot of them

Existing Publishing Groups

EPUB 3 Community Group

EPUB 3.1 related technical activities, e.g.

upgrade the “EPUB for Education” profiles to EPUB 3.1
handle errata for EPUB 3.1 (with a possible republication)
explores means to keep up EPUB Checker, reading systems’ test suite, or the EPUB 3 samples repository

The membership of the CG may take up further work

e.g., re-publication of EPUB 3.1 in ISO

The Publishing Business group

Builds bridges between communities
Concentrates primarily on the business aspects of publishing
Takes the lead on developing group charters
Oversight and approval of the EPUB 3 Community Group’s work
Provides strategic directions

The BG's Steering Committee

The Business Group is led by a Steering Committee
Serves as a representative of the Business Group between meetings
Members are elected
Initially consists of the IDPF Board of Directors

Digital Publishing Interest Group

Building bridges among technical communities
Has been working for several years: published reports, worked on DPUB ARIA, worked with the CSS WG,…
Has a major influence on the technical aspect of the upcoming DPUB WG Charter
Chartered until October 2017