Re: W3C [PBG] Americas/Europe Meeting Agenda

Sorry, I won't be able to join today, but would like to raise a point. 

> Are you working to update the quality or accessibility of your backlist?

In the scope of the upcoming European Accessibility Act, there is a need to "upgrade" to accessible EPUB 3 as many reflowable EPUB 2 as possible, out of the 2000 / 2020 national backlists. Such backlists can represent several 100K titles per country. 
In this huge set of EPUB 2 (and some EPUB 3) files, many are correctly structured (at the level of their headings and ToC) and have no visual information (photos, illustration, tables in raster format). Novels are a great example. This is the honey pot.

Several questions arise then:
- how many titles fall into this honey pot, per country? or what percentage of national backlists? 
- what are the pitfalls we must avoid when classifying titles considered being part of the honey pot?
- which tools could fully automatise the "upgrade" of these EPUB 2 titles to accessible EPUB 3?

Note: I explicitly exclude PDF files from this honey pot, as PDFs require some re-structuration before being processed, and this implies more complex tools. I also exclude fixed-layout EPUBs, because we still don't know what an accessible FXL is. 

Each EU country has to start studying this aspect, EDRLab members start discussing these topics, PBG members could certainly help. 

Best regards
Laurent

> Le 14 févr. 2022 à 22:20, McCloy-Kelley, Liisa <lmccloy-kelley@penguinrandomhouse.com> a écrit :
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> Hello Publishing Business Group members,
>  
> Please find below the agenda for the next PBG call for Americas/Europe on Tuesday February 15th,  to be held at [0] via the Zoom link in the meeting invite. 
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> W3C IRC: http://irc.w3.org/ <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Firc.w3.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7CLAUDRAIN%40hachette-livre.fr%7Cf1f4b36643b342c072ff08d79c8273be%7Cf881a2c50a89483181b1c7846c49594d%7C0%7C0%7C637149956414432943&sdata=fRlwrrNqKLfWvIy6pt4d2F379ZmHqDYjXD4yiFM1dp0%3D&reserved=0>  (IRC channel #pbg).  
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> Agenda  
> Follow-up to PBG Winter Conference Day
> Was there anything surprising you heard or want to discuss relative to the Comics/Manga/Graphic Novel marketplace discussions in Europe, the US or Japan? Are there particular concerns about getting to good accessibility for Fixed Layout? 
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> 2022 Digital Publishing Challenges – We’d like to open with talking about any of the challenges with digital publishing that you see ahead in 2022. Where are your concerns? What are your priorities? 
> Are you worried about the increasing trends in digital piracy?
> Are you working to update the quality or accessibility of your backlist?
> Are you sorting out needs for making content more accessible?
> Are you working to determine how to deliver content to address the changing reading environments for some content and in some systems?
> Are you wondering about how NFTs and blockchain technology plays into the publishing marketplace?
> What else are you seeing as concerns and priorities? 
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> Date and topic discussions
> Conference Days
> ·         We are hoping to focus the next one on educational publishing. Would that be better in April or May?
> ·         What other topics should we plan for future Conference Days?
> TPAC in Vancouver in Sept.
> ·         Will people want to be in person? 
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> Reminder: Collecting issues and use cases
> For FXL + Reflow use cases: https://github.com/w3c/publ-bg/issues <https://github.com/w3c/publ-bg/issues>
> For Reading System bugs: https://github.com/w3c/epub-rs-bugs <https://github.com/w3c/epub-rs-bugs>
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>  PBG meetings upcoming: 
> Americas/Asia: 03/01/2022 7pm EST/9am JST
> Americas/Europe: 03/15/2022 EST/6pm CET
> Americas/Asia: 03/29/2022 7pm EST/9am JST
> Our Spring 2022 Conference Day will be in April or May and focused on Education 
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> On behalf of PBG co-chairs,
> Liisa McCloy-Kelley, Daihei Shiohama and Cristina Mussinelli
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> [0] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=W3C+%5BPBG%5D+Americas%2FEurope+Meeting&iso=20220215T12&p1=179&ah=1 <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=W3C+%5BPBG%5D+Americas%2FEurope+Meeting&iso=20220215T12&p1=179&ah=1>