Re: Initialisation of the EPUB 3.4 Annotations TF

Having been the participant and team contact of the original Web Annotation WG, I am definitely interested…

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> On 12 Mar 2025, at 14:40, Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> We'll start studying annotations for EPUB in sunny Sophia Antipolis in a few weeks. 
> Before that, I would like to know who in this group is interested in participating in this work and later integrating the import/export of annotations in their reading systems. 
> 
> We'll also look at potential Invited Experts in this work (who could become W3C members as an alternative).
> I'll contact readwise.io <http://readwise.io/> and hypothes.is <http://hypothes.is/>, both deeply involved in this annotation feature, in case they are interested. I believe Colibrio will also be interested. If you know of other companies that have developed an import/export feature for annotations, please reply with their names. 
> One of the EDRLab members, FBReader, has an export feature for annotations and may give some advice. 
> 
> For reference, the specification of Readium Annotations <https://github.com/readium/annotations> is already integrated into Thorium Reader 3.1. An appendix page <https://github.com/readium/annotations/blob/main/Selectors.md> contains complementary selectors, i.e. ideas that have not been incorporated into Thorium so far; this includes EPUB CFI.
> 
> Best regards
> Laurent Le MEUR
> EDRLab


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