Re: Let's introduce ourselves

Nice to have you. My company is currently working on indexing epub from 
internet and improve a11y for them including providing text to speech 
support and better screen reader indicator.


Look forward to future collaboration.



Cheers,

Zheng



On 2022-03-16 5:13 a.m., Gunnar Grímsson - HBS wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm the CTO for the Icelandic Talking Book Library, a state run 
> service for all who can't read printed materials. We are using Daisy 
> book at the moment but  moving to EPUB3, hopefully sometime this year. 
> Our main interest is in accessibility of books and we're working 
> closely with our Nordic equivalent libraries, both technically but 
> also in increasing awareness amongst publishers in our countries 
> inside NIPI https://nipi.care/. In 2020 NIPI hosted a conference with 
> quite interesting presentations from leading experts, some of which 
> are also in this group, see 
> https://nipi.care/conference/conference-program/ for recordings of the 
> presentations.
>
> My particular interest is in the development of 'full-text' books, 
> combining narrated audio and text books which are especially useful 
> for dyslexic people and working with EPUB3 in that context. We're 
> currently working on an update to our system to automate the creation 
> of full-text books which will be up and running later this year, 
> having received a small grant to do this. Version 0.1 of this software 
> is available at https://github.com/hljodbokasafnid/Ascanius which is 
> basically a pre-processor for https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/. Feel 
> free to contact me if you find this interesting in any way.
>
> I'm basically lurking here to follow developments, will of course 
> pitch in if I have something useful to contribute.
>
> My best
> Gunnar
>
> Bestu kveðjur
> Gunnar Grímsson
>
> Hljóðbókasafn Íslands
>
> Digranesvegi 5 - 200 Kópavogur
> S: 54 54 911 – GSM: 897 8229
> Heimasíða: hbs.is <http://hbs.is>
>
> Best regards
> Gunnar Grimsson
>
> The Talking Book Library of Iceland
> Digranesvegi 5 - 200 Kopavogur
> Tel. +354 54 54 911 – Mobile: +354 897 8229
> Web: hbs.is <http://hbs.is>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Livio Korobase <livio.korobase@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 16, 2022 8:36 AM
> *To:* 簡陳中 <penguinchien@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Shinya Takami <takami-s@kadokawa.jp>; Zheng Xu 
> <zxu@gardenia-corp.com>; W3C EPUB 3 Community Group <public-epub3@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Let's introduce ourselves
> Hello, i am Livio and i am nothing interesting :). I worked a lot on
> accessibility and editorial process and contributed to italian
> accessibility laws.
> I am following developments, reading here and here, but i am very sad
> to say that i see nothing really interesting growing.
> Sorry for the sincerity
>
> Livio Mondini
>
> Il giorno mer 16 mar 2022 alle ore 08:10 簡陳中 <penguinchien@gmail.com>
> ha scritto:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am the Research Fellow of International Digital Commerce Research
> > Division, Commerce Development Research Institute (CDRI) for research
> > and analysis the industry of the international digital commerce and
> > communications. The CDRI is also a semi-government research institute
> > controlled by The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) of Taiwan. At
> > the present, I am also both the expert of UN Centre for Trade
> > Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Deputy
> > Secretary of the Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation &
> > Electronic Business (AFACT).
> >
> > With more than 20 years of experience in E-book, digital publishing
> > and technology industry, I am usually invited to participate in
> > numerous
> > meetings to provide his suggestions for government sectors and
> > organizations, such as Taiwan's Ministry of Culture of cultural
> > technology policies and digital publishing developing meeting, Taiwan
> > Digital Publishing Forum, and Taiwan E-book Association meetings.
> >
> > Sincerely yours,
> > Anthony Chien Ph.D.
> > ==============================
> > E-Mail: penguinchien@gmail.com
> > Mobile phone: 0966-703288
> > ==============================
> >
> > Shinya Takami <takami-s@kadokawa.jp> 於 2022年3月16日 週三 
> 下午2:29寫道：
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > My name is Shinya Takami from KADOKAWA in Japan.
> > >
> > > I'm a chief architect of DX projects and an ebook evangelist at 
> KADOKAWA, the co-chair of W3C EPUB3-WG and the chair of Keio 
> University SFC Advanced Publishing Laboratory EPUB-WG.
> > >
> > > I conducted to spread EPUB 3 by support of launching Rakuten kobo 
> in Japan, first major EPUB 3 based ebook service in Japan, technically 
> with Zheng Xu 10 years ago.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Shinya
> > >
> > >
> > > 2022年3月16日(水) 0:43 Zheng Xu <zxu@gardenia-corp.com>:
> > >>
> > >> Hi folks
> > >>
> > >> Some of you might have noticed that I started to ask new joined 
> members to introduce themselves shortly.
> > >>
> > >> Actually I think maybe it's also a good time to introduce 
> ourselves to new members and each other as well since the CG started 
> to be active during covid and I think a lot of us did not know each 
> other and might have missed some of the PCG meetings (which is totally 
> fine)..
> > >>
> > >> Ok, I will run a quick introduction of myself.
> > >>
> > >> My name is Zheng Xu. I am located in Ottawa (Canada) and founder 
> of Gardenia Corp (a digital reading system firm).
> > >> I joined PCG because I hope I could help with prototyping new 
> reading experiences, test new concepts and most importantly - make 
> them into a real product or spec to benefit digital book readers.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Zheng
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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> > > XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX
> > >  Shinya Takami, Ph.D. <takami-s@kadokawa.jp>
> > >  Chief Architect & Evangelist, KADOKAWA CORPORATION
> > >   - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + -
> > >  Senior Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC
> > > https://www.kri.sfc.keio.ac.jp/en/lab/aplab/
> > >  Co-Chair, EPUB 3 Working Group | Publishing@W3C
> > > https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/epub-wg/
> > > XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX
> >
>
-- 
Zheng Xu

Chief Executive Officer
Gardenia Corp
https://gardenia-corp.com/