The document summarizes the first face-to-face working group meeting of the IDPF ePUB 2.1 revision. It discusses the themes and goals of the new charter, including enhanced support for rich media, global languages, metadata, and interactivity. It outlines the sub-groups formed to address each theme and notes plans for draft specifications in September and weekly conference calls. The document also provides details on upcoming workshops and groups focused on enhanced CJK language support.

1. IDPF ePUB 2.1 Working Group
ASTRI/ECE/MMCT:Chow King Wai (周經偉)
22nd Jun 2010
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2. 1st Face-to-Face Working Group Meeting
• 15 – 16 Jun 2010 in New York City
– 50+ people attended physically
– Unknown (at least to me) attended virtually via Skype
• Themes of new charter
– Enhanced global language (e.g. CJK), rich media &
interactivity, enhanced article support (PRISM/IDEA
Alliance), enhanced metadata, enhanced navigation,
annotation support, book-specific semantics (e.g. glossary),
advertisement support/dynamic content, extension
mechanism, relationship with CSS3 and HTML5
– 15-min “lightning” talks on each theme
• Detailed agenda and selected presentations at
– http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/wiki/F2F201006Agenda

3. What’s next…
• Each theme is handled by a sub-group
– Wiki, email, weekly conference call
– Draft (no need to be feature complete) specification in Sep
– http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/w/list
• Signed up
– Rich Media & Interactivity: read-along/karaoke feature
– Annotation
• Will be a separate document
• Development timeline “de-coupled” from ePUB v2.1

4. Enhanced Global Language support
• CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) for now
– Probably focus on Column layout support and Ruby text
– http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/wiki/EGLS
• Co-ordinator: Murata Makoto村田 真: eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp
– 1st CJK workshop held in Seoul on 3 – 4 May 2010
• http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~eb2m-mrt/CJK/Seoul2010/
– 2nd CJK workshop will be held in Sapporo on Aug 3 & 4
• Chinese side will likely be addressed by Institute for
Information Industry/ 「財團法人資訊工業策進會」-
創新應用服務研究所 of Taiwan
– 電子閱讀產業推動聯盟

5. End of Presentation
Thank you. Do you have any questions?
Contact:
Chow King Wai: kingwai@astri.org
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