Re: Initialisation of the EPUB 3.4 Annotations TF

Play Books also has an annotation export feature via Google Docs. I am not
sure if there is any interest in expanding that to include a new export
format or import functionality, but I think there has been some interest in
having richer annotation support in the product.

While I no longer have a reading system to add features to, I am interested
in participating in the TF, at least for now.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

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