RE: Documenting EPUB feature requests

The name needs changing from Open Annotation -> Web Annotations, and the old links will have to be fixed as the W3C version wasn’t a REC when we stopped work, but other than that it should be ready for testing/publishing if people are interested in moving it forward. The only open issue is a minor tweak to the examples.[1]

 

[1] https://github.com/w3c/publ-epub-revision/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ASpec-OpenAnnotation

 

Matt

 

From: Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org> 
Sent: August 16, 2019 03:40
To: Matt Garrish <matt.garrish@gmail.com>
Cc: W3C EPUB3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting EPUB feature requests

 

Hi Matt, 

 

In fact I didn't spot this one before, thank you for the reminder. 

If the EPUB community wants to make EPUB annotations sharable, this spec must be used as a start, without doubt. 

 

Laurent 

 

 

Le 16 août 2019 à 04:06, <matt.garrish@gmail.com <mailto:matt.garrish@gmail.com> > <matt.garrish@gmail.com <mailto:matt.garrish@gmail.com> > a écrit :

 

Maybe I’ve missed some context, but isn’t what you describe exactly what the Open Annotation in EPUB specification already defines?

 

We worked closely with Rob Sanderson and Paolo Ciccarese to define the implementation, and it’s how epubcfis ended up in their specification. It got pulled into the edupub sphere, unfortunately, so never ended up getting finalized, but I’m not sure there are any issues left with it.

 

[1]  <http://www.idpf.org/epub/oa/> http://www.idpf.org/epub/oa/

 

Matt

 

From: Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org <mailto:laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org> > 
Sent: August 15, 2019 10:09
To: W3C EPUB3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org <mailto:public-epub3@w3.org> >
Subject: Re: Documenting EPUB feature requests

 

Hi, 

 

What W3C CG can do is 

- study a profile or extension of W3C Web Annotations for EPUB (starting from  <https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub-ann> https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub-ann I guess), 

- define how Web Annotations should be integrated in an EPUB container when this is desirable, 

- promote the use of Web Annotations and the Web Annotations Protocol ( <https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/> https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/) in the Publishing industry (-> reading systems).

 

Best,

Laurent Le Meur / EDRLab






Le 15 août 2019 à 04:25, George Kerscher < <mailto:kerscher@montana.com> kerscher@montana.com> a écrit :

 

Hi,

 

Annotations are very important for accessibility. Hypothesis is not accessible, but if it were, this could be a great way for Disabled Student Service Offices (DSO) to provided the extended descriptions in EPUB  documents and to we content offered by universities and schools.

 

Best

George

 

 

From: Dave Cramer < <mailto:dauwhe@gmail.com> dauwhe@gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 12:10 PM
To: Harri Heikkilä < <mailto:Harri.Heikkila@lamk.fi> Harri.Heikkila@lamk.fi>
Cc: Ruth Tait < <mailto:artbyrt@gmail.com> artbyrt@gmail.com>; W3C EPUB3 Community Group < <mailto:public-epub3@w3.org> public-epub3@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting EPUB feature requests

 

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 3:44 AM Harri Heikkilä < <mailto:Harri.Heikkila@lamk.fi> Harri.Heikkila@lamk.fi> wrote:

 

[Brainstorming, ideas]:

 

1) Annotation & note creating and sharing systems (for example shared highlightnings in textbooks)

 

I've seen demos of reading systems where annotations can be shared among a defined group within a particular reading system. Are you hoping to share annotations across different reading systems?