Re: Fwd: Wendy and Marisa on audiobooks

Hi Ivan,

The sync media CG had been quite silent since it was started. Mainly DAISY people was doing discussions on it. Marisa already discussed the concept of sync media with other media related groups, and some of key people from them also joined the sync media CG.
But largely DAISY was doing discussions and DAISY people were driving it. 
The objective was to move EPUB 3 Media Overlays to WP sync media, but when WP specifications stalled, the future of sync media also became uncertain.
From my perspective the main achievement of sync media specification was that it enabled audio books to pass accessibility horizontal review. But we have not seen much traction for sync media specifications in web community yet.
So, From human resource management point of view, I would like to see traction in the web community before investing more time on sync media. We came up with many attractive proposals in EPUB 3 community in past, but only a few got the traction.

With regards
Avneesh
From: Ivan Herman 
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:43
To: W3C Publishing Steering Committee ; Marisa DeMeglio 
Subject: Fwd: Wendy and Marisa on audiobooks

As I said in my comment to the working group, this is brilliant. We should really try to re-use this video as part of our overall outreach. 

However… I think there may be more and maybe it is worth discussing it a bit. So far we have concentrated on the future of EPUB 3 in the form of a WG, and we also plan to properly finish the work on Audiobooks in the Publishing Working Group in form of a Rec. What we have not discussed yet is what should happen with the work in the CG Marisa is chairing and, more specifically, with the Synchronized Narration work. Should we think/plan to seriously consider a separate Working Group to bring that forward? If so, which other technical work at W3C should that be paired with? After all, this is clearly not only relevant to publishing audiobooks. 

There are a number of non-trivial issues to consider, mostly about the synchronization [sic!] of this work with other WG-s at the W3C, otherwise the messaging can go wrong. But we should really consider driving this to the mainstream.

WDYT?

Ivan


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  Hi PWG,
   
  Wendy Reid and Marisa DeMeglio prepared a video about Audiobooks [1], presented by Booknet Canada in lieu of Techforum, which was cancelled. In addition to presenting a great overview of the Audiobooks spec, they demo 3 versions of audiobooks, including one implementation with Sync Media!
   
  Thanks Wendy and Marisa!
   
  [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LVcVUSqtOY&feature=youtu.be
   
  Tzviya Siegman
  Information Standards Lead
  Wiley
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