On July 27 and again on July 29 2020, publishing industry experts from the US, Europe and Asia, discussed the impressive results of the global publishing survey developed by the W3C Publishing Business Group and shared how the Publishing@W3C community is using these results to move forward in many important new areas of standards work.
Materials
See the slides presented during the webinar. Recordings of each session are included below.
Agenda
- Introduction: who/what is Publishing@W3C? (Tzviya Siegman)
- Overview of the goals of renewed Publishing@W3C activity (Cristina Mussinelli)
- EPUB Survey Overview and its influence on the future of the Publishing@W3C activity (Wendy Reid)
- Accessibility and the European Accessibility Act (Avneesh Singh)
- How can people participate, and keep up with our activities (Mateus Teixeira)
- Q & A (moderated by Tzviya Siegman, Daihei Shiohama (塩濱大平), and Shinya Takami (高見真也))
Panelists
Cristina Mussinelli
Fondazione LIA
Co-Chair of the W3C Publishing Business Group
Wendy Reid
Rakuten Kobo
Co-Chair of the W3C Publishing Working Group
Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Lead, Wiley
Co-Chair of the W3C Publishing Working Group
Co-Chair of the W3C Publishing Steering Committee
Member of the W3C Advisory Board
Avneesh Singh
Chief Operating Officer, DAISY Consortium
Chair of the accessibility task forces in publishing in W3C
Member of the W3C Advisory Board
Daihei Shiohama (塩濱大平)
Media Do Holdings Co., Ltd.
Co-Chair of the W3C Publishing Business Group
Shinya Takami (高見真也)
VP, Technology Development, BOOKWALKER
eBook evengelist, KADOKAWA
Chair of EPUB-WG, Advanced Publishing Laboratory / Keio University
Mateus Teixeira
Product Manager, Norton Ebooks & Norton Testmaker
Co-Chair of the W3C Publishing Community Group