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How do you know that you’ve produced an interoperable, functional, and accessible ebook? How do customers know? Or libraries? Or Book distributors? Validation is the cornerstone of the epub publishing process and there is one system on which nearly all epub relies – epubcheck. However, as our standards evolve, our validation has not and epubs […]
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Minutes are published at https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2018/2018-05-30-pwg.html and https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2018/2018-05-31-pwg.html. The Publishing Working Group gathered in Toronto, Ontario for a 2-day face to face meeting at the Kobo office. This was Kobo’s first time hosting a working group meeting, and they did a great job. Thanks especially to Wendy Reid who organized hotel discounts, restaurant reservations, conference rooms, […]
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See minutes online for a more detailed record of the discussions. Offlining Our current draft does not go into detail about offlining WP. The call focused on some of the scenarios in which offlining is most valuable and desired. From there, the conversations expanded to the other concerns around offline-enhanced experiences, such as versioning, identification, […]
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For many of us who work with ebooks, the highlight of our year is ebookcraft in Toronto. ebookcraft is a two-day conference devoted to ebook production, sponsored by Booknet Canada. The fifth edition was held last week, and it was a veritable who’s who of Publishing @ W3C. Why do we love ebookcraft? It’s full […]
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See minutes online for a more detailed record of the discussions. F2F Planning We are planning to have several tasks accomplished in advance of our Spring F2F in Toronto. The Affordances TF plans to review open affordances issues, compile technical requirements, and begin work on a draft before the meeting. The WAM TF is planning […]
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The Publishing Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of three first public working drafts: Web Publications: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-wpub-20180104 Packaged Web Publications: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-pwpub-20180104 Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publications: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-wpub-ann-20180104 These are the first publications of the Publishing Working Group, and we welcome feedback. Web Publication defines a collection of information that describes the structure […]
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On November 6 and 7, the Publishing Working Group held a face-to-face meeting in Burlingame, California. The meeting was part of W3C’s massive TPAC conference, where immersion in spec work was the goal. Having TPAC at an airport hotel meant there were no distractions, which was perfect. We had participants from five continents, ranging in […]
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See minutes online for a more detailed record of the discussions. Code of Conduct Garth and Tzviya addressed concerns raised about tone and volume of comments on GitHub. Passion is great, but let’s remember to maintain professionalism. See https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/ and https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/WorkMode/#mailing-lists-policy-usage-etiquette-etc for guidance. Please contact chairs or team contact if you have any concerns. Definition […]
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See Minutes online for a more detailed record of the discussions. Review of Authoring Tasks Tzviya Siegman reviewed the outline of the WP draft and sections assigned to individuals. Editors and task force leads are encouraged to start drafting. Matt Garrish posted a skeleton document, available at https://github.com/w3c/wpub/blob/master/index.html and in readable form at https://w3c.github.io/wpub/. Issue […]
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