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Contents 1 Regrets 2 Scribe 3 Previous Action Items 4 Agenda 4.1 Metadata status update 4.2 W3C XHTML2 WG update 4.3 Advanced/Text Book Profile, continued 4.4 Periodicals Profile (main topic for today) 5 Minutes 5.1 Updates on action items 5.2 Metadata status update 5.3 W3C XHTML2 WG update 5.4 Advanced/Text Book Profile, continued 5.5 Schedule note 5.6 MathML, SVG 5.7 Periodicals Profile 5.8 Frontmatter module 5.9 Face to Face 5.10 XInclude 5.11 Next week

Regrets

Marisa

Scribe

Boris

Previous Action Items

• Dennis to post information about QTI to the list.
• kenny to post information about the leads to the list.
• Stephen to assist in documenting the elements in the Zed AI profile suite.
• Markus/Per: metadata review, draft approach for realizing as module
• Markus fix ZedAI main page, start a ZedAI Overview page (postponed, Markus is working on spec prose first.)
• Sam - gathering sample documents.
• Kenny - gathering sample documents.
• Markus to contact Oxygen for possible free licenses.
• Markus to invite people for profile testing.
• Markus to ask the DAISY list about how newspapers/periodicals markup is currently being done.
• Gregory to research mechanisms for local extension of taxonomies

Agenda

Metadata status update

• Background: ZedAI_Meta_Data_-_AI_Working_Draft and ZedAI_Meta_Data_-_Status_Report

W3C XHTML2 WG update

Brief one minute update from Markus

Advanced/Text Book Profile, continued

• formulation of action items to get cracking, based on resolutions from ZedAI_telcon_20090126
• XForms inclusion?
• Naming?
• MathML/SVG/DocBook computer markup

Periodicals Profile (main topic for today)

• Review/Discussion of Kennys outline, as sent (email: "Concepts identified for the Periodicals profile") to list today.

Minutes

Updates on action items

• Dennis to post information about QTI to the list. [ working on it ]
• Kenny to post information about the leads to the list. [ found Style guide listing on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide ]
• Kenny to assist in documenting the elements in the Zed AI profile suite. [ Stephen to help as well ]
• Markus/Per: metadata review, draft approach for realizing as module [ Working on finding a way forward ]
• Sam, Kenny - gathering sample documents [ Proceure: put sample documents on google code. Post comments, questions to the list. ]

Metadata status update

[ postponed ]

W3C XHTML2 WG update

• DAISY has joined WG
• WG is working concurrently on XHTML Modularization 2.0. Plan is to publish the two specs concurrently.
• The modularization spec might be a better spec for us to base our work on - we would not have to create our own modularization framework. Our modules would then be at the same level as XHTML2, not above it. Could be a much cleaner spec.
• In this case spec prose authoring could be quite different; but technically not that much changes.
• Modularization 1.1 we cannot use. If you import a module, you can't subset it. But this may change in new release.

Advanced/Text Book Profile, continued

All agree, outline that was published generally looks fine.

@Markus - will put starting point schema together.

Name - may seem a small matter, but can be important.

• "Leisure book" name caused a lot of discussion on zed list.
• "Text book" may sound like the opposite of an audio book.

Sense of last call: seems like either QTI or XForms could make sense. Or both? Need to investigate further. Is one of the things that distinguishes a textbook. Need to describe questions, input forms, etc.

James: Adopt part that allows representation of these constructs, not any actual interactive functionality.

XForms is native to XHTML2 as a module - version 1.1.

Dennis moving forward with this. Boris volunteers to help.

@Dennis (with Josh and Boris): define a subset of XForms or QTI that can describe questions, input forms, etc that might appear in a textbook. Do not need events and such. Will try to post some information this week.

Schedule note

• We promised to finish this iteration at end of February, including first draft of textbook profile.
• Next iteration - March.
• April - first public draft.
• After May, a lot of people's time will be spent on distribution spec.
• October - AI and Distribution specs out in nearly final versions (bug fixes and editorial improvements only after that date).

MathML, SVG

• Markus: suggest pushing this into next iteration.
• MathML 3 in the works; should be ready by 2010 so could potentially include in final spec.
• XHTML+MathML is an exiting profile (part of XHTML Modularization work).
• Should pull together well, but due to time constraints general agreement to move this to next iteration.

Periodicals Profile

• Current proposal no longer based on NewsML; instead, branched out to other concepts and aligned more closely with ZedAI book profiles.
• Looks like taxonomy of role attributes will be important
• conflicting information on whether style guides are used for newspapers.
• Kenny will look at style guides and find whether there are definitions for the concepts in the list; discuss within Periodicals working group.
• After that can commence work on schema.

Frontmatter module

• Marisa has posted information on CMOS alignment with frontmatter elements
• Markus and Marisa to follow up on this.

Face to Face

• Will be 1/2 in person and 1/2 virtual (via Skype, etc)
• Date: March 23 & 24 (directly following CSUN)
• Kenny, Markus, Marisa will be in LA for 2 full days.
• @All members asked to reserve at least all of Monday for this work.

XInclude

@James to create wiki page on XInclude for discussion/decision on possible strategies.

Next week

• XForms/QTI
• XInclude
• Frontmatter
• Periodicals