W3C

Publishing Business Group Telecon

22 Sep 2020

Attendees

Present
ivan, Bill_Kasdorf, liisamk, George, Guillian_Hetzler, wolfgang, avneesh, Dan_Sanicola, Daihei
Regrets
wareid, tzviya, ralph
Chair
Liisa McCloy-Kelley
Scribe
Daihei

Contents


liisamk will talk about TPAC meeting

<liisamk> WOT and Kaz Ashimura will talk about the WOT and the effect on our lives and presentation

<liisamk> ...presentation on the scope of WOT

<bill> WoT and FXL things seprate?

<liisa> Separate. WoT is one and FXL and other format issues will be discussed

<George> widely spread paper

<liisamk> https://daisy.org/MDPWhitepaper

<George> EPUB discussed as sample at schools and other places

<George> PBG should talk about EPUB implementation

<liisa> George's paper posted here

<liisa> anything else you want to talk at TPAC PBG?

<liisamk> Daihei: co-chairs would like to focus and give attention to the business interest

<liisamk> ...want to be a conduit to the publishing community and publishing@w3c

<liisamk> ...business interests should be clearly noted at the TPAC meeting and any ideas are welcome to solicit discussion

<liisa> GitHub Repo about EPUB reading system issues

<liisamk> https://github.com/w3c/epub-rs-bugs/issues

<liisa> Any kind of notes to discuss bugs and issues around EPUB Reading System

<liisa> Amazon is interested in talking about it

<liisa> so is Apple

<liisa> Great talk about accessibility issues, George

<George> We have a lot

<George> Reading system test call was just held

<George> an email will be sent to talk about the reading system for the next meeting

<liisa> Struggles by traditional publishers

<liisa> we want to find out about what can be helpful

<George> Samples, stress test, physics 750 pages books,

<George> Can we use the book, stress test, does not have to be one area

<George> encoding tables and properly coded (or not)

<George> Just received a college student with disabilities

<George> listed so many issues, important to know them

<George> Quite important to know

<Ivan> On stress test, I made W3C document

<Ivan> all kinds of complicated CSS issues and complexity

<Ivan> Stress test is important

<Liisa> Stress test is important to find out about what would work in publications

<Liisa> Index, some does not work, 500 entries or more

<Liisa> Reading system is to find such issues to be worked out

<Liisa> Use of GitHub repo?

<Ivan> On GitHub repo, not necessary to have files themselves

<Ivan> Index could work, in my view

<George> At DAISY, good collections of content for test

<George> Index of content, language, length, etc.

<George> What are the ways to learn about EPUB?

<George> Kindle, Vitalsource, etc. ingesting the test books to show how they work or not in their proprietary system

<George> Do not put EPUB 2's:)

<Ivan> We need to synchronize with EPUB WG's process

<Ivan> Their main focus is to test EPUB 3 instances

<Ivan> Do not duplicate efforts between the groups

<Liisa> Evolutions of the publications

<Liisa> Not only codes but real books

<Liisa> Implement books, test

<George> Tried college STEM materials

<George> 22 mins to validate EPUBCheck

<George> 1000s of files

<George> It might take longer, but all the books are copyrighted and we do not know ways for publishers to donate the rights

<Bill> Scholarly area, creative common license, License needs attributions

<Bill> Content out there, especially scholarly, STEM

<Ivan> EPUB version of a big conference proceedings

<Liisa> Good point, Ivan

<Liisa> Share materials after a conference, new use case

<Ivan> Good contact at ACM (?)

<Bill_Kasdorf> to clarify: In higher ed, OER (Open Educational Resources) and in scholarly, OA (Open Access) content is usually published with a CC-BY license that only requires attribution and is otherwise freely available to use. There are lots of such books out there.

<Ivan> I might be able to get donation from them

<George> Media Overlays could be very interesting for recording EPUB

<George> Slides associated, we used to do a lot at DAISY, 100s of recordings at DAISY, which could become a business

<George> How to deliver content to people

<Liisa> Interesting, at PBG, we are to talk about business interests,

<Liisa> we are talking about building business, interesting

<Liisa> WG to look at next version of EPUB

<Liisa> Another GitHub repo?

<liisamk> `ack George

<George> Conference proposa - Born Accessible and accessible content

<George> supporting materials for professors

<George> I can envision target market to reach various markets

<George> Manuals, my PC's manual is horrible

<George> Reaching out to various companies and Government

<George> DAISY has a mission to reach out to various areas of segments

<Liisa> Weekly search of world, EPUB not accessible to phone

<Liisa> not eBook, not accessible, bringing people to better place

<Karen> interesting topic for the Virtual TPAC meeting of PBG

<Avneesh> What about audiobook specs, web publications, html as microsite, other publishing options, not just EPUB which are to be discussed

<Bill_Kasdorf> +1 to Avneesh

<Daihei> welcome to hear more items and subjects to discuss at TPAC PBG

<Liisa> Community Group and Working Group taking up, in the meantime, some issues are not necessary discussed?

<Liisa> At Asia meeting, some issues related to put things back such as images on spine, but interesting though it has been talked almost 10 years

<Bill> I want to encourage people to look into incubation of web publications for audiobook, comic/manga, etc.

<Bill> NY Times just joined and Wendy jumped at their 1619 Project "Perfect for Web Publication"

<Bill> All in HTML

<Bill> Not in EPUB but easily incorporated into WP

<Bill> We just paused for WP, not failed

<Liisa> Something to give to schools, not PDF

<Liisa> Any other things and subjects to discuss at TPAC

<Avneesh> At TPAC, more integrating W3C's community?

<Liisa> Meeting with WoT, one example

<George> Stress test, samples, I should have mentioned audiobooks, single page HTML document as WP material as opposed to many pages

<liisamk> Daihei: with Avneesh's point, we are limited by the 2 90minute meetings

<liisamk> ...need to talk about business interests now and for the future

<liisamk> ...lots of things that could relate to the publishing business

<liisamk> ...W3C is a treasurebox of web developments

<liisamk> ...want to also talk to XR and media and entertainment people

<liisamk> ...they are working on display and there are so many subjects that could cross over between groups

<liisamk> ...need to manage time frame and could talk about futuristic and really happening kinds of things

TPAC registration of guest speakers, invited guests

<Bill_Kasdorf> need to jump to another meeting

<liisamk> Karen: for other colleagues within our orgs who might want to attend, they will have to get accounts

<liisamk> ...inviting guests or others has a bit of a process, can put them in touch with Karen

<liisamk> ...to get through the steps

<Karen> To invite other people into TPAC meetings, need registrations, easiest way is to contact Karen

<Liisa> Thank you, Karen on that remark

<Liisa> Thank you, co-chairs are welcome to hear from you

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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