Re: Getting started

Hello list!
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sync-media-pub/

My name is Daniel Weck, I work with the DAISY Consortium, Readium
Foundation, and EDRLab.
I am a software developer, with extensive experience in accessible
multimedia authoring / playback tools, and reading systems for the EPUB
format.
Over the years, I contributed to several web/publishing technical standards
(DAISY, IDPF, and W3C working groups).
I am currently involved in the Digital Publishing activity at W3C.

As Marisa mentioned, we created a document to lay down a preliminary set of
design requirements.
In this document we also list web technologies that may (or may not) help
meet those requirements.
https://github.com/w3c/publ-wg/wiki/Requirements-and-design-options-for-synchronized-multimedia

Note that we sometimes refer to existing work in relation to EPUB3 Media
Overlays (the SMIL-based standard for text-audio synchronization in talking
books / read aloud publications),
and there is possibly some cross-over with the ongoing Web Publications
work, as well as with respect to the future evolution(s) of the EPUB
standard under the W3C process.

So, hopefully this Community Group will drive a productive conversation
about "synchronised multimedia for publications" on the Open Web Platform!

Marisa, can we go ahead and use the dedicated GitHub space already? (issue
tracking, wiki notes, sample content, etc.)
https://github.com/w3c/sync-media-pub

Regards, Daniel

https://www.w3.org/community/sync-media-pub/



On 27 February 2018 at 20:14, Marisa DeMeglio <marisa.demeglio@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> In the interest of starting this CG work, I’d like to propose that we
introduce ourselves and start refining some requirements.
>
> So, I’m Marisa, I write software for the DAISY consortium, and I’ve
worked a lot on accessible synchronized audio + text ebooks.
>
> Here is a link to something we put together for the Publications WG, just
to get our initial thoughts into one place:
>
https://github.com/w3c/publ-wg/wiki/Requirements-and-design-options-for-synchronized-multimedia
>
> As we’re moving this work into our CG now, we should look at these
requirements again and decide if there are things to add or remove.
>
> Then the next step is either finding a good fit with an existing
technology, or, if we don’t find anything, outlining an approach for a new
format. I am interested in what’s going on in the Media & Entertainment IG
and especially the cue API, and how we can make that work for us. I have a
call with them next week to learn more and also to share what we’re doing.
>
> Thoughts, comments, ideas? And please introduce yourselves!
>
> Thanks
> Marisa
>
>