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

Corrections made, Avneesh; thanks.

-Ralph

On 2020-05-30 01:57 AM, Avneesh Singh wrote:
> 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 11:44:09 UTC