Media Advisory: W3C Announces its First Publishing Summit and New Publishing Standards Work

Dear Media, Analysts and Friends of W3C,

W3C is pleased to announce two new initiatves as part of its Publishing at W3C Roadmap:

1. W3C Publishing Summit, 9-10 November 2017 in San Francisco; 

2. W3C Publishing Working Group for new standards work to combine the best features of traditional publishing with the interactivity and accessibility of the Web.

For more information, please see the Media Advisory here and text version below:

https://www.w3.org/2017/06/media-advisory-publishing.html.en <https://www.w3.org/2017/06/media-advisory-publishing.html.en>
For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact w3t-pr@w3.org <mailto:w3t-pr@w3.org>. Thank you.

Kind regards,

Karen Myers

W3C Media and Analyst Relations

Mobile: 1.978.502.6218
w3t-pr@w3.org <mailto:w3t-pr@w3.org>

Text Version of Media Advisory

[1]W3C Media Advisory For immediate release

      [1] http://www.w3.org/ <http://www.w3.org/>

 W3C Announces its First Publishing Summit and New Publishing Standards
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   [2]Translations | [3]W3C Press Release Archive
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      [2] https://www.w3.org/2017/06/Releases-2017#publishing <https://www.w3.org/2017/06/Releases-2017#publishing>
      [3] https://www.w3.org/Press/ <https://www.w3.org/Press/>

   [4]logo for Publishing at W3C

      [4] https://www.w3.org/publishing/ <https://www.w3.org/publishing/>

   [5]https://www.w3.org/ <https://www.w3.org/> — 19 June 2017 — The World Wide Web
   Consortium (W3C) announced today that registration is now open
   for its first ever [6]W3C Publishing Summit to be held 9-10
   November 2017 in San Francisco, California, co-located with the
   W3C’s [7]Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meetings
   (TPAC 2017), and has also issued a call for participation in a
   newly-formed [8]Publishing Working Group.

      [5] https://www.w3.org/ <https://www.w3.org/>
      [6] https://www.w3.org/publishing/events/summit2017.html <https://www.w3.org/publishing/events/summit2017.html>
      [7] https://www.w3.org/2017/11/TPAC/Overview.html <https://www.w3.org/2017/11/TPAC/Overview.html>
      [8] https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/ <https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/publ-wg/>

   Selected speakers and session topics have already been unveiled
   for the W3C Publishing Summit, and the [9]program committee
   invites submission of speaker and session proposals by 15 July
   2017. The conference will show how publishers of all types are
   using today's Web technologies, including EPUB, to make their
   publications more effective and their workflows more efficient,
   and cover developments coming soon in Web publications, EPUB
   and the overall Open Web Platform.

      [9] https://www.w3.org/publishing/events/summit2017.html#program <https://www.w3.org/publishing/events/summit2017.html#program>

   Additionally, the W3C has launched a new Publishing Working
   Group, a standards-track group formed just a few months
   following the combination of IDPF and W3C. The Publishing
   Working Group's mission is to provide the necessary
   technologies on the Open Web Platform to make the combination
   of traditional publishing and the web complete in terms of
   accessibility, usability, portability, distribution, archiving,
   offline access, and reliable cross referencing.

   "We are excited to be on track with our roadmap for
   [10]Publishing@W3C," said Bill McCoy, W3C Publishing Champion.
   "Building on the best of IDPF’s long-standing digital
   publishing conferences, the new W3C Publishing Summit will be a
   critical forum for the global publishing community to discuss
   and learn about key issues in digital transformation, including
   how Web technologies are shaping publishing today, tomorrow and
   beyond. The new Working Group is a major step forward, both for
   the convergence of EPUB and Web technologies and in the
   integration of the IDPF and W3C communities to accelerate our
   work to lead the Web to its full potential."

     [10] https://www.w3.org/publishing/ <https://www.w3.org/publishing/>

   The W3C Publishing Summit will take place at the Hyatt Regency
   San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, and is open to the public.
   Visit the event page to [11]register and for more information.

     [11] https://www.w3.org/publishing/events/summit2017.html <https://www.w3.org/publishing/events/summit2017.html>

   Participation in the new W3C Publishing Working Group is open
   to W3C member organizations, including former IDPF members who
   have joined W3C pursuant to the combination with W3C. For more
   information about participation in this and other
   Publishing@W3C activities, contact Bill McCoy at bmccoy@w3.org.

About the World Wide Web Consortium

   The mission of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is to lead
   the Web to its full potential by creating technical standards
   and guidelines to ensure that the Web remains open, accessible,
   and interoperable for everyone around the globe. W3C develops
   well known specifications such as HTML5, CSS, and the Open Web
   Platform as well as work on security and privacy, all created
   in the open and provided for free and under the unique W3C
   Patent Policy. For its work to make online videos more
   accessible with captions and subtitles, W3C received a 2016
   Emmy Award.

   W3C's vision for "One Web" brings together thousands of
   dedicated technologists representing more than 400 [12]Member
   organizations and dozens of industry sectors. W3C is jointly
   hosted by the [13]MIT Computer Science and Artificial
   Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL)in the United States, the
   [14]European Research Consortium for Informatics and
   Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, [15]Keio
   University in Japan and [16]Beihang University in China. For
   more information see [17]https://www.w3.org/. <https://www.w3.org/>

     [12] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List <https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List>
     [13] http://www.csail.mit.edu/ <http://www.csail.mit.edu/>
     [14] http://www.ercim.eu/ <http://www.ercim.eu/>
     [15] http://www.keio.ac.jp/ <http://www.keio.ac.jp/>
     [16] http://ev.buaa.edu.cn/ <http://ev.buaa.edu.cn/>
     [17] https://www.w3.org/ <https://www.w3.org/>

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Media Contact

   Karen Myers, W3C <[18]w3t-pr@w3.org>
   Mobile: 1.978.502.6218
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     [18] mailto:w3t-pr@w3.org

   [19]Translations | [20]W3C Press Release Archive

     [19] https://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2017#publishing <https://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2017#publishing>
     [20] https://www.w3.org/Press/ <https://www.w3.org/Press/>