Re: Kickoff of the EPUB Annotations TF

Hi, would love to join 😊 in addition to Wendy to represent Kobo 😊


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Eloisa Guerrero
Accessibility Specialist Intern

From: Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 12:43
To: public-pm-wg@w3.org <public-pm-wg@w3.org>, public-pm-ann@w3.org <public-pm-ann@w3.org>
Subject: Kickoff of the EPUB Annotations TF

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Thanks to everyone having shown interest in participating in the EPUB Annotation TF, i.e. currently:

- Ivan Herman (W3C)
- Leonard Rosenthol (Adobe)
- Brady Duga (Google)
- Laura Driussi (Google)
- George Kersher (DAISY)

Other W3C members are welcome. Apple? Kobo?

Nikolay Pulstin from FBReader (EDRLab member) will also review and implement the specification.
Hypothes.is<http://Hypothes.is> and readwise.io<http://readwise.io> will be contacted asap.

The TF will use  group-pm-ann@w3.org<mailto:group-pm-ann@w3.org> for discussing our matter.
The corresponding public archive is  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Group/group-pm-ann/<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Group/group-pm-/>

The kickoff will be next week in Sophia Antipolis during the F2F PMWG meeting.

Here is a proposed Agenda:
- Is there a business model for such a format, or is the project triggered by users' desire?
- Annotations vs Bookmarks vs Citations.
- Scope of the project (embedding annotations in an EPUB? specifying a REST protocol?)
- Existing initiatives and setting a list of reading apps already exporting annotations.
- Overview of the W3C Annotation Model<https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/>; pros and cons.
- Overview of the Readium Annotations<https://github.com/readium/annotations> specification; additions to the W3C Annotation Model; demo.
- Other specifications we should know, e.g.  Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publications<https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/NOTE-wpub-ann-20201001/>.
- Periodicity of meetings and tools.
- AOB

Your comments are welcome on this agenda.

Please review the documents before the F2F meeting if you can :-)

Best regards
Laurent Le Meur
EDRLab