Publication Structure Working Group Report

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Publication Structure Working GroupReport

• OeBF Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 29 May 2003
• Jon Noring, acting Vice Chair
• Allen Renear (UIUC), Chair

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Outline

• The Publication Structure Working Group
• Activities from March 2002 to May 2003
• Plans for 2003

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The Publication Structure Working Group

• Charge
• to maintain and advance the OeBF Publication
  Structure
• Created May 2000
• (The first OeBF task-specific working group)

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OEBPS

• An XML-based content specification for electronic
  publishing.
• 1.0 released in 1999. Current version 1.2 (Sept
  2003).
• Widely used throughout the publishing industry.
• Enables a single electronic representation of a
  publication to be rendered by many devices
• (intermediate processing may be used to transform
  OEBPS format into the internal format used by a
  particular device.)
• Not "yet another standard", but rather
• A set of coordinated subsets of XML, HTML, CSS,
  MIME, Dublin Core, MARC, XPointer, Namespaces,
  and Unicode
• With some further specific constraints required
  for interoperability.
• And some new mechanisms (e.g. "Package" and
  "fallbacks") as necessary.
• Supports any XML vocabulary
• For more information see the FAQ.

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Officers

• Chair Allen Renear
• Graduate School of Library and Information
  Science, University of Illinois at Urbana
  Champaign
• Vice Chair (acting) Jon Noring
• Invited Expert
• Succeeds Jerry Dunietz (Microsoft)
• Scribe (rotating)

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Organization Two Sub-Groups

• Development Sub-Group
• Charge Advancing OEBPS
• Chair Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL)
• Maintenance Sub-Group
• Charge Maintaining OEBPS
• Chair Jon Noring (invited expert)

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Operations

• Sub-Group memberships identical
• eGroups email discussion lists (two)
• Weekly 60 minute conference calls
• Face-to-face meetings as necessary
• Documents, minutes, etc. maintained on PSWG page
  at members.openebook.org/pswg/ available to all
  OeBF members.

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To Follow Our Work

• Visit the the PSWG pages at members.openebook.org/
  pswg/
• Join us!!!

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Activities for 2002-2003
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Goals/Objectives (January 2002 revision)

• Mission Goal B Enhancement of OEBPS
• Objective B-1a OEBPS 1.2 Develop an improved
  version of the OEBPS specification with
  substantial new functionality in the areas of
  presentation control and the highest possible
  degree of compatibility with existing content
  distribute this version for membership review by
  mid-Spring 2002.
• Objective B-1b OEBPS 2.0 Complete the planned
  fully enhanced version of the OEBPS
  specification, with substantial new
  functionality, including major improvements in
  linking and navigation, internationalization,
  fallbacks, and content organization distribute
  this version for membership review by fourth
  quarter 2002.

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Objective B-1a (OEBPS 1.2)

• Objective B-1a OEBPS 1.2 Develop an improved
  version of the OEBPS specification with
  substantial new functionality in the areas of
  presentation control and the highest possible
  degree of compatibility with existing content
  distribute this version v1.2 for membership
  review by mid-Spring 2002
• Status Completed. (OEBPS 1.2 released in Aug
  2002)
• Milestones
• March 2002 Draft submitted to OeBF Board and
  Systems Working Group
• April 2002 Revised draft submitted for comment
  to OeBF membership and to general public
• Membership and public comments, with PSWG
  responses, may be found on PSWG web page.
• July 2002 Revised (second revision) draft
  submitted to membership
• August 2002 OeBF membership approves submitted
  draft
• September 2002 OEBPS 1.2 released.
• April 2003 Announcement and promotion

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Plans for 2003
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Objective B-1b (OEBPS 2.0)

• Objective B-1b OEBPS 2.0 Complete the planned
  fully enhanced version of the OEBPS
  specification, with substantial new
  functionality, including major improvements in
• linking and navigation
• internationalization
• fallbacks
• content organization
• For more information on specific functional
  requirements, and on technical strategies, see
  the PSWG web site.

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Status of current work on OEBPS 2.0

• 2001-2003
• Extensive work accomplished(approximately 80 of
  substantive work is finished)
• February - April 2003
• 2 month hiatus declared to develop sufficient
  resources for completion.
• April 2003
• Work restarts
• Future Milestones (unofficial)
• Draft available 4rd quarter 2003.
• Release in 1st quarter 2004.

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Questions