Digital Publication Community Group created

W3C has launched the Digital Publication Community Group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/digipub/

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The growth of the tablet and eReader market, and changes in scholarly
publishing, have shown the accelerating impact of the Open Web Platform
on digital publishing. For example, ePUB 3.0 no longer subsets W3C
standards like HTML5, CSS, SVG, MathML, and Javascript APIs, but uses
them in full. It also extends them to cover the various needs of digital
publishing. These extensions, and continuing fragmentation among
devices, formats, publishers, and distribution networks, suggest an
opportunity for W3C to address publishing industry use cases, from
novels and prose through to scientific and scholarly publishing, medical
and legal publishing, interactive children's books, magazines and more.


The initial aim of the Digital Publication Community Group will be to
determine if W3C should invest more heavily in digital publication, and
if so, what role it should play.  The CG will establish and strengthen
active liaisons with existing digital publishing fora, such as the
International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) which oversees the ePUB
specification, as well as digital publishers and distributors of all
types.


The Digital Publication Community Group will also explore the idea of
one or more workshop on the topic, and provide a forum for open
discussions on the future of digital publishing, specifically:


* reducing market fragmentation
* describing traditional and emerging publishing workflows, from the
technology perspective
* creating scenarios and requirements to drive future standardization in
W3C Working Groups, including layout, internationalization, security,
accessibility, content protection, metadata, and vocabularies.


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In order to join the group, you will need a W3C Account. To request one:
  http://www.w3.org/community/account/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Friday, 23 March 2012 18:02:44 UTC