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The goal of the W3C’s Digital Publishing Activity is to help make the Open Web Platform perfectly suitable for the needs of the Publishing industry, which also means helping to build the necessary bridges between that community and the Web Community at large. As such, the call for papers for the “Books in Browsers: Advancing […]
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This is the 28 March – 4 April 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in […]
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As reported elsewhere, the Digital Publishing Interest Group has published its first two public Working Drafts. Beyond the content of those documents, the publication has another aspect worth mentioning. For the first time, “alternate” versions of the two documents have been published, alongside the canonical HTML versions, in EPUB3 format. Because EPUB3 is based on […]
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The Digital Publishing Interest Group seeks to ensure that the requirements of digital publishing can be answered, when in scope, by the Recommendations published by W3C. It is composed of representatives from book publishers, reading system vendors, consultants, and subject matter experts. The group has published two First Public Working Drafts to describe use cases […]
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Today we invite guest blogger Gerardo Capiel, VP of Engineering of Benetech, who joined the Consortium to participate in the Digital Publishing Interest Group (DPUB IG). This is cross-posted on the Digital Publishing Blog. In October of this year, Benetech joined the World Wide Web Consortium to more deeply participate in the evolution of standards […]
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This is the 1-8 November 2013 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media. You […]
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In June 2013 W3C launched a new Digital Publishing Activity so that experts in the digital publishing ecosystem can hold technical discussion, gather use cases and requirements, and bring electronic books and Web technologies closer together. I recently spoke with Pierre Danet, Senior Digital Technology Officer at Hachette about the trend. IJ: Let’s start with […]
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XSLT 3 and XQuery 3.1 will have access to JSON data, the ability to generate JSON, and also tools to work with JSON in a query or transformation
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W3C will be holding a Workshop in Paris, Publishing and the Open Web Platform in September of this year, 2013.
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After a successful start on Monday, the workshop on eBooks and W3C continued and concluded yesterday. The goal of the Workshop, as I explained yesterday, was to explore how the digital publishing community could work with W3C for a better...
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