RE: Minutes from EPUB.Next

Hello. Here are some initial thoughts about EPUB.Next:


  1.  HTML metadata (uses of <link> and <meta> elements) could enable users to toggle browser-provided “EPUB style” display of content, e.g., with browser-provided collapsible side panels providing navigation based on sites’ structures.

     *   Document metadata could include referencing a table of contents resource.
     *   Document metadata could include referencing a site outline resource.
     *   Document metadata could include referencing a spine resource.

  1.  Websites could be saved to EPUB’s for offline viewing.

     *   Metadata (see above) could come into play when storing websites as EPUB’s for offline viewing.

  1.  EDUPUB 4

     *   What are the requirements for a JavaScript API for digital textbooks?

                                                               i.      See also: http://idpf.org/edupub , http://idpf.org/epub/sc/api/ .

                                                             ii.      A JavaScript API could facilitate interoperability between digital textbooks and LMS’s and e-learning systems.

           *   Users could use their browsers or textbook reader software to configure interoperation with LMS’s and e-learning systems. Ideally, this would be simple for users to do. Digital textbooks would, then, be interoperable with all such systems, needing only to utilize the JavaScript API.


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski

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Subject: Minutes from EPUB.Next

Hi All,

Thank you for attending our community meeting on 27 October.

Here are minutes https://www.w3.org/2021/10/27-epub.html.

We plan another community-wide meeting in about 6 months.

Thank you,
Tzviya

Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Principal
Wiley
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