W3C BD Comics Manga CG - TPAC

Dear CG members

Luc's question is interesting, and I will give my personal take there, inviting you to react. 

The CG is still slow to gain speed, and few declared members of the CG participate to the calls. 

Representatives from the Japanese industry - Shin Niina and Shiohama Dahei from Media Do - will participate to the Digital Publishing Summit in Paris (25 & 26 June) and will talk about the Manga industry and the Advanced Publishing Lab (APL) in Japan. Our project around a profile of Web Publications dedicated to visual narratives will certainly be a topic of discussion during this event. 

The group has started documenting use cases, i.e. "archetypes" of visual narratives, listing interesting works and detailing the main features and effects used in such works. The study has begun with Webtoon and the (vertical) scroll feature which is the base for such style. We have also listed some Japanese Manga that use horizontal scroll as a feature. 
We will continue studying other archetypes, like digitized BD with guided navigation, turbomedia and detail advanced works (mainly originating from Europe) but it will take time if this community does not grow stronger. 

Therefore, what is the baseline for organizing an F2F of the BDCoMa CG in Fukuoka, and what would be its goals?

I would say that the requirement is to have a least 5 people from the CG in Fukuoka. If not, this can hardly be an F2F. Then the goal would be to recruit other active members for the CG in Asia, America and Europe (out of France/Belgium).

So, first question: who in this CG will be in Fukuoka for TPAC and interested by a CG F2F there?  
Second question, what is your opinion on the way the CG can go stronger?

Cordialement, 
Laurent Le Meur 
EDRLab

 





> Le 5 juin 2019 à 09:23, AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr> a écrit :
> 
> Hi,
>  
> From the Publishing Business Group call yesterday, I’d like to keep you informed of Ivan Hermann (W3C) idea for next TPAC (Fukuoka, September 16th-20th):
>  
> … there is a possibility of a community group of having a F2F meeting, I was wondering if the BDCoMa group was planning a F2F
> 
> It could a good opportunity and the right place for it.
>  
> Best regards,
> Luc Audrain
> PBG co-chair
>