Re: May be a relevant discussion for eBooks: 'zip archives as first class citizens'

Robert,

I guess, as far as this IG is concerned, we can/should restrict ourselves to eBooks, more precisely ePub. In the case of an ePub, the EPUB CFI specification:

http://www.idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/epub-cfi.html

becomes part of the picture... I am not sure it answers to your requirements, though, because I am not sure whether the existing fragment id-s (in HTML or in SVG) can be combined easily...

I guess Brady can help us out for this.

Ivan

On Sep 16, 2013, at 18:34 , Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Thanks Ivan, Robin!
> 
> Some ideas towards requirements from the annotation perspective:
> 
> * Resource-in-Zip (RiZ) should be able to be annotated given the RiZ URL.
>  -- anno hasTarget foo.epub%!/foo.jpg
> 
> * A fragment of the RiZ should be able to be annotated, using existing fragment specs for interoperability
>   -- anno hasTarget foo.epub%!/foo.jpg#xywh=100,100,20,20
> 
> * ... without using the media fragment "extension" mechanism so that HTML fragments can be used
>  -- anno hasTarget foo.epub%!/foo.html#para1
> 
> * Extension ".zip" cannot be required for the encapsulating zip file
>   -- anno hasTarget foo.__epub__%!/foo.jpg
> 
> * ... or nested zips as RiZ, if that is supported:
>  -- anno hasTarget foo.epub%!/chapters/chap1.epub%!/foo.jpg
> 
> * Relative URLs should work to allow embedding annotations within the zip file and have them move around correctly without always referring back to the original copy of the epub, which might change or no longer exist.
>   -- eg:
> 
> <%!/annotations/anno1.ttl> a oa:Annotation ;
>   oa:hasBody <%!/annotations/bodies/comment1.txt> ;
>   oa:hasTarget <%!/foo.jpg#xywh=100,100,20,20> ;
>   oa:hasMotivation oa:commenting .
> 
> * Clearly we need to make RDF assertions about resources inside zips for any of these to work correctly.
> 
> Is it worth adding as a discussion item for tomorrow's call?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:
> On 11/09/2013 10:41 , Ivan Herman wrote:
> There is a discussion going on the whatwg mailing list:
> 
> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2013-August/040599.html
> 
>  on whether URI-s should be defined to address zip archives on the
> Web. There has been some remarks about why this would be interesting
> and the arguments seem to forget that, in fact, ePub files are also
> zip archives.
> 
> Yes, I'm still mulling over that thread and might jump in at some point.
> 
> 
> I am not sure this is relevant for this IG, and those of you who may
> be closer to the issues might want to have a look. It may be relevant
> for epub-reader-in-a-browser type implementations...
> 
> I think that this is a key component in bringing browsers and epub closer to forming one web, a goal that I think it pretty relevant :)
> 
> -- 
> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
> 
> 


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