- From: Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:58:43 +0200
- To: W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
Hi all,
The minutes of the Digital Publishing Interest Group Teleconference
dated 2014-06-30 are now available at
http://www.w3.org/2014/06/30-dpub-minutes.html
These public minutes are also linked from the dpub wiki
http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Meetings
Also find these minutes in a text version following, for your convenience.
Best,
Thierry Michel
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[1]W3C
[1] http://www.w3.org/
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Digital Publishing Interest Group Teleconference
30 Jun 2014
[2]Agenda
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-digipub-ig/2014Jun/0059.html
See also: [3]IRC log
[3] http://www.w3.org/2014/06/30-dpub-irc
Attendees
Present:
[4]Bill Kasdorf (Bill_Kasdorf), [5]Brady Duga (duga),
[6]Charles LaPierre (clapierre1), [7]Dave Cramer
(dauwhe), [8]David Stroup (david_stroup), [9]Deborah
Kaplan (dkaplan3), [10]Frederick Hirsch (fjh), [11]Ivan
Herman (ivan), [12]Julie Morris (julie), [13]Karen Myers
(karen), [14]Laura Dawson (dawson), [15]Laura Fowler,
[16]Liam Quin [17](Liam), [18]Liza Daly, [19]Luc Audrain
(Luc), [20]Markus Gylling (mgylling), [21]Michael
Miller, [22]Paul Belfanti, [23]Peter Krautzberger
(pkra), [24]Phil Madans (philm), [25]Thierry Michel
(tmichel), [26]Timothy Cole (timCole), [27]Vladimir
Levantovsky
[4] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Bill_Kasdorf
[5] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Brady_Duga
[6] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Charles_LaPierre
[7] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Dave_Cramer
[8] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/David_Stroup
[9] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Deborah_Kaplan
[10] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Frederick_Hirsch
[11] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Ivan_Herman
[12] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Julie_Morris
[13] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Karen_Myers
[14] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Laura_Dawson
[15] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Laura_Fowler
[16] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Liam_Quin
[17] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Liam_Quin
[18] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Liza_Daly
[19] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Luc_Audrain
[20] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Markus_Gylling
[21] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Michael_Miller
[22] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Paul_Belfanti
[23] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Peter_Krautzberger
[24] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Phil_Madans
[25] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Thierry_Michel
[26] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Timothy_Cole
[27] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Vladimir_Levantovsky
Regrets: Alan Stearns (astearns)
Chair:
[28]Markus Gylling (mgylling)
[28] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Markus_Gylling
Scribe:
[29]Laura Dawson[30] (dawson)
[29] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Laura_Dawson
[30] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Laura_Dawson
Contents
* [31]Topics
* [32]Summary of Action Items
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<trackbot> Date: 30 June 2014
<clapierre1> Zakium 1.650.644 is me
<philm> Hi, Dave
<clapierre1> Zakium aabb is me
<pkra> pkra is +1.617.858.aahh
<scribe> scribenick: dauwhe
mgylling: objections to approving minutes?
clapierre: my name was mshouldbepelled in minutes
mgylling: one can edit minutes directly in IRC
Ivan: one word or two?
clapierre1: one
mgylling: Are minutes approved?
... yes.
... Topic: summer break
<fjh> some editing tips here,
[33]http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/Group/Scribe-Instructions.htm
l (members only link)
[33] http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/Group/Scribe-Instructions.html
mgylling: should we have a summer break during July?
... it would not prevent individual task force work
... any reactions?
<clapierre1> thanks
mgylling: suggestion was to start again on 11 August
<AH_Miller> I've took my vacation last week.
Julie: July and August are equally busy in the US
... July is worse for me
mgylling: Liza, Ivan, what do you say?
<brady_duga> Sorry, I am having phone issues and on my commute
to work, so I will have to drop and won’t be able to rejoin
<Luc> I'll be away beginning of August coming back after th
20th
mgylling: we could reconvene on Aug 11 as heartbeat check
Liam: some groups have editing review meetings--review docs on
IRC
Ivan: during aug 11 heartbeat decide what to do
mgylling: we'll reconvene August 11
liza: a11y task force has been meeting
... would that be good topic for next week?
mgylling: Charles, do you think that would be a good topic?
charles: next Monday would be good for me.
Liza: let's do that.
<Karen> +1 Accessibility topic on 7 July
Ivan: herding stray phone numbers
<David_stroup> 585 David stroup
Markus: heavy sigh
mgylling: Peter, the idea is to get quality time to understand
STEM use cases work
... and to get suggestions you need.
... I don't have a plan for this
... I'd like to learn about the thinking and wiki work you've
done so far
pkra: I added a few more math-specific use cases
... things like graphing and diagrams
... not sure which direction work should go
<tm> sorry I had lost my ADSL connection :-((
pkra: progressive enhancements fed into STEM stuff
... user agent improvements
<ivan> [34]Chemistry use case
[34] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Chemistry_UC
<scribe> ... new standards like ChemML are in scope? Yes.
<ivan> [35]Diagrams, Graphics Use cases
[35] http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Diagrams_and_Graphing_UC
UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: is mathml enough for science?
... mathml may need work to support k-12
<Luc> Sorry cannot make it.
UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: there were emails
<Bill_Kasdorf> actually it was MathML 3.0 that added the K-12
support
UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: tcole brought up contacting digital library of
mathematics folks
... George K. added some notes on a11y pointed towards
describedby and other ARIA things
... that's what I've gathered so far
... my questions aabout scope
... how do web components work here?
... for chem there's ChemML that might be typical use case
... if platform doesn't already support these standards, could
web components help?
... where is the balance to be found?
... mathml is a good example. Is it a problem or poster child
for web standards?
... it's sucessfull on creation side
... it's the xml and html way of writing math
... but it's a huge problem because browsers haven't supported
... web components could solve some problems, but make it
harder to publish these materisals
<liam> [I believe safari has mathml support, and there's some
mediocre support in firefox]
UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: where to draw the line between web components
and standards work
... can we do everything in SVG? Yes, but it doesn't solve
problems of publishers.
mgylling: it's a valid question
... if we look at from use case perspective, you shouldn't have
to worry
... the first thing we have to do is describe how publishers
want to use the OWP
... whether we have a name is the next question
... you can pretend to be ignorant about the solution space,
and describe the problelm space
... you have updated the toc in the use case directory?
pkra: yes
mgylling: it might sound like a dry, academic answer to
separate things like that
...: web folks doen't know what content folks want to do
... mathml is a good example. Great expectations among
publishers, nothing from web world
... if we say web components, we can answer every possible
question
... lots of hype right now
... with a good amount of scripting and connectivity you can
make things loook like they are real
... declarative vs scripted
... should publishing give up on declaritive and go all-in for
scripting
... so we'd just draw math on canvas and give up on mathml
... key issue is declarative vs scripted
timCole: one nuance... based on mathml experience, why would
publisher see advanatage in using some of these technologies
<Zakim> liam, you wanted to point out that web components don't
really address the problem
timCole: people ask why can't I use TeX
Liam: three things
... just two
... one: web components would address the markup issue, but we
already have mathml
... the difficult part is formatting
... so you either recreate mathjax
... there's nothing in CSS to do math formatting without a lot
of work
... the other part is JATS
... which is used in STM publishing
... as opposed to STEM
... STM uses MathML extensively
<Bill_Kasdorf> and BITS is the book counterpart to JATS
clapierre1: on a11y we have to make sure we don
... lose descriptive presentation for math
... we can't forget that
Bill_Kasdorf: there's now BITS: book interchange tag suite
... Mathml is part of that
... declarative vs scripted. I'm on the declarative side
... here's something that's richly described, then scripting
can do something with that
... I have a preference for making available a resource that
many things can be done with
mgylling: I'm a big fan of declarative, as it helps with a11y,
and the presentation can be negotiated with the user
<pbelfanti> must drop from call - regrets
mgylling: scripted stuff can have user negotiation, but is more
like black box
... it is a tricky question
... we can love declarative
... but if the cost and struggle to get something to work that
way is too high
... will the publishing community adopt?
Bill_Kasdorf: if it doesn't have support, it's not useful
Ivan: to comment on web components; I'm not married to them
... I didn't mean to use web components for mathml
... I was wondering about chemistry or electronics
... on declarative vs scripted
... in an ideal world the reason I was wondering about it was
exactly that
... it gives the end user a way to extend the declarative part
of html who's behaviour is encoded in JS
... once those components are defined, the author would use the
markup in a declarative way
... and the component/script would do the presentation
... for example, with ChemML it's a way forward without brower
support for ChemML
... i don't know if web components are rich enough for these
kinds of uses
... but may be worth considering
mgylling: the setup you describe is not that different from
MathML plus mathjax
pkra: I had understood it that way, Ivan. My question came from
Markus inviting me to not care about the solution
... I do believe web components will be useful
... my question: how do we combine this?
... what do we want from interesteed parties?
... our use case is going to be to use this markup but not as a
web standard, but as a web component standard
... how do we get the richest feedback?
mgylling: I think so
pkra: web platform offers everything with mathml svg canvas,
you'd have a really powerful base
... it comes down to making it usable
... what do we do on the standards side of this
... do we pick winners, identify the standards with the biggest
market
... and combine that with ideas that can work as web components
mgylling: the pub community wants answers. what should we focus
on?
... big-time publishers still provide math as bitmap images
... not because they're ignorant but because it's the only
thing that works everywhere
... this IG can provide answers: you should use X for this
problem
... another thought: the fact that web components exist doesn't
matter in most cases because publishers don't have the
engineering staff
... that will feed into a preexisting web component taht would
render such content
<Bill_Kasdorf> +1
mgylling: it doesn't remove the need for standards, just
changes where things are standardized, as a web component thing
or as a markup language
Ivan: not either/or
... from author/editor POV, it looks clear that a declarative
standard is necessary.
... who would do that is separate question
... if I would do that today, the browsers will not just
implement it by themselves
... we've learned the lesson of MathML
... I'd look at another way of implementing
... web components might be another way of implementing
something
... so these things can be done in parallel
... my question is still (for example with ChemML)
... is this doable with web components?
... it may be technically not feasible
... I don't know if that's true or false
... it would be very valuable to find out the answer
... I don't just don't want to believe that web components
would solve, in case they would't
... Peter, you may know this
<liam> [I note that today there's JavaScript to render CML in
SVG]
Ivan: the reason why the browsers have not implemented mathml
is that they don't feel there's a market
... it's not a priority
... would a concentrated documentation of all the needs of the
publishing industry overall
... including scholarly publishing (and not just books)
... and bring in business figures to show how important this is
... would this help browsers change their mind?
mgylling: we should talk about who to reach out
Bill_Kasdorf: AAP implementation project, Mathml was the
highest priority from a11y people
... on the strategy of mathml plus canvas, I believe that just
deals with display issues
... and not interactive issues?
pkra: Yes
Bill_Kasdorf: another benefit of mathml is that it does both
things
pkra: there's a bit of a gap here, there's two separate
standards
... content vs display
... presentation is already pretty rich, a11y tools can use
... there aren't authoring tools in content mathml
Bill_Kasdorf: presentational is the highest priority
pkra: it's easy to convert back and forth
... then you can talk about more advanced computation/display
<Zakim> liam, you wanted to discuss some people to whom to
reach out to - CML: peter Murray-Rust (of course); STM
publishing: [36]http://www.stm-assoc.org/ and others; mathml
semantic tools
[36] http://www.stm-assoc.org/
pkra: I've given up trying to understand vendors
... lots of interest on browser implemtation side, just not
enough to get the ball rolling
... I agree with ivan, making the business case would help
... and that's not just for mathml
mgylling: that should be the ambition of the use cases
... let's just describe what publishers want to do
<liam> [some people to whom to reach out - CML: peter
Murray-Rust (of course); STM publishing:
[37]http://www.stm-assoc.org/ and others; mathml semantic tools
will happen, e.g. from maple, wulfram, if needed ]
[37] http://www.stm-assoc.org/
Liam: who to reach out to?
... someone mentioned CML, Peter Murray-Rust; there's an
association of STM publishers
... Maple and Wolfram are market leaders for software
<pkra> add sagemath, iPython.
<clapierre1> Happy Canada Day (tomorrow July 1) :)
Liam: if publishing world said we need this, there are people
with authoring tools
<liam> [merci]
Bill_Kasdorf: Two more... I can get people from SSP folks
<AH_Miller> How about Design Science and the work being done by
Frédéric Wang?
Bill_Kasdorf: also Design Science
<liam> +1 Design Science
Liam: they also make word plugins
mgylling: the idea would be to grow use case collection
<AH_Miller> Frédéric Wang has been working on MathML for Gecko
and WebKit.
mgylling: not only to convince browsers about mathml
... but to grow the whole world of scholarly publishing
... and we invite feedback from more people
... do you have things to add to existing use case collection?
pkra: I have some rough ideas but there's not a list
... let's reach out to everyone to get ideas
... two things: who's working on the task force?
... Tim Cole is interested
... especially on non-math stuff
... engineering has many higher needs
Bill_Kasdorf: I'd be happy to help, I have lots of contacts
timCole: I have lots of contacts, too.
Ivan: before we go, one more comment
... Madi and Bill did lots of interviews with people in the
space
... which would be synthesized into a document
... something similar would be helpful here
... since we want a "business plan"
... backing that up with major players and companies gives it
more weight
... so you might want to look at what bill and Madi did as an
example
Bill_Kasdorf: it's all on the wiki now
mgylling: it's a good way to gather data
... it does take time, though
Ivan: Force 11 is looking at scholarly publishing
pkra: Summary: I'm in a good place right now; I have a lot go
through
... can plan what you're describing, and come back with more
use cases etc
mgylling: sounds good to me
<clapierre1> yes
mgylling: we're over time. Any final comments?
Summary of Action Items
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