Re: [minutes] Publishing Steering Committee 2020-05-29

Thanks Ralph,

some corrections for sake of accuracy:
Original:
Avneesh: SMIL — not too manyfolks doing MO/FL, but will continue. Big 
backward compatibility focusin EPUB WG.
… Is the benefit of migration.

Correct:
Avneesh: SMIL — not too many folks doing it in publishing industry, some of 
them are doing MO/FL, they will continue. Regarding replacing EPUB 3 SMIL 
with sync media, there is Big backward compatibility clause in EPUB WG.
The other question is what Is the benefit of migration of EPUB 3 SMIL to 
sync media, what additional business need will it address.

Original:
Avneesh: Whole DAISYecosystem is based on SMIL forward. Millions of books, 
but not on Web.
… Sync Media with various media.
… Text sync with audio.
… For audiobook spec to pass horizontal review.
… Need additional participation for wider usage.
… WG note: audiobooks already passed horizontalreview.
… If this is important to Audiobooks to move forward,in this case CG could 
publish, if there is a need.

Correct:
Avneesh: DAISY specifications extensively use SMIL. DAISY community is 
producing  Millions of hours of books every year, but it is not web usage.
The vision of sync media group was to come up with different kind of 
synchronizations for different kind of disabilities,
e.g. audio with HTML text, HTML text with video of sign language and more. 
We accelerated work on synchronizing text with audio to enable audio books 
pass the accessibility horizontal review.
So, as far as audio books specifications process is concerned, sync media 
has done its work. For moving ahead to addressing needs of different 
disabilities we need more participation in CG
So, it would be better to not attached it to publishing, as Ivan and APA 
mentioned couple of years ago.
If there is a strong business need in audio books industry, then we can 
pickup sync narration piece and make it as an WG note, and the broader work 
can continue in sync media CG. But if we see a strong business need to make 
an association between the two specs.

Thanks
Avneesh
-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Swick
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 21:52
To: W3C Publishing Steering Committee
Subject: [minutes] Publishing Steering Committee 2020-05-29

The record of today's Publishing Steering Committee meeting is

   https://www.w3.org/2020/05/29-pbgsc-minutes.html

Topics:

   1. Key items from this week's NA/Europe Business Group discussion
   2. EPUB 3 WG draft charter status
   3. Continue idea sharing for Publishing Community webinar
   4. Next steps for Sync Media

No new action items

Action items from previous meeting:

1. Avneesh, George, Cristina, Ivan propose some text on EPUB A11y for
the EPUB 3 WG charter

Done

2. Garth to get Liisa and Leslie to respond [to the charter in GitHub]

Done

Thanks to Garth for scribing.

-Ralph

Received on Saturday, 30 May 2020 05:57:31 UTC