RE: Initialisation of the EPUB 3.4 Annotations TF

Hello,
 
I am interested in participating.
 
I would like to see two accessible implementations as a success criteria!
 
Best
George
 
 
From: Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 7:40 AM
To: public-pm-wg@w3.org
Subject: Initialisation of the EPUB 3.4 Annotations TF
 
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