ZedAI telcon 20101012

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Present

Markus, Matt, Boris

Previous Telcon

ZedAI_telcon_20100824

Agenda

  • Summary of where all the parts of this project and related projects now stand. What's up with the ePub revision, and has that changed any of the thinking about ZedDist? Might any of those changes have effects on ZedAI? Also, what if any feedback have we gotten from outside since the public draft release? Specific example / question: are we introducing useless complexity if ZedAI uses XForms and ZedDist may use HTML5 forms?
  • Pushing the update to the site. Review/summary of changes since the May release. Any remaining questions/issues?
  • Plan for next release. We want to create shorter release cycles, so need to keep the change list short.

Minutes

Relationships between specs

Relation between EPUB revision and ZedDist:

  • DC board is discussing the matter at October board meeting
  • No decisions are taken yet, but one possible decision is to postpone ZedDist until we know what EPUB3 will provide
  • there is a possibility of a merge between DAISY distribution formats and EPUB3

EPUB revision is on a very aggressive schedule, so things are changing quickly. May have a draft by January, finalized by May 2011.

Relation between EPUB and ZedAI:

  • ZedAI is not impacted by the EPUB/ZedDist events
  • however, a feature such as ZedAI Forms may be "uselessly complex" at least when the target is EPUB
  • however, features can be deprecated and new ones introduced in their place

New Release

Want to post new version on 10/14/2010

Summary of changes since the May release is available several ways:

Target for submission to NISO: end January. See ZedAI_2010_Release_Schedule

The most urgent remaining issues have to do with underlying technologies.

Update to RDFa 1.1

  • action item: @Markus start RDFa 1.1 migration overveiw wiki page
  • RDFa 1.1 going to Last Call soon; could be a Rec by April 2011
  • New version is much more convenient to use
  • Some interest in using it in EPUB as well.
  • However, will require significant changes in schemas.

Discussion re CSS support: whether to require PAs to support CSS DOMs etc, or set the rend feature free and allow any CSS declarations inside @rend:rend

  • If we go the first route, then the rend feature could be removed... ?
  • This needs to be discussed on a group call
  • perhaps useful: there are tools that can create inlined expanded-out @style attrs given an external CSS
  • @Matt start a CSS page, replicating the discussion we just had (for use with WG later on)

Other Business

Boris: was hoping to get a few of the NIMAS people thinking about what a profile for NIMAS would look like, what would the next version look like if its based on this?

  • @Boris will contact James, George, CAST people to start thinking about this
  • If suggestions for changes in spec arise - sooner is better, but change window is open for 6 months after DSFTU
  • DIAGRAM project at WGBH has made provided input about image description options

@Matt commit an comment-out of the sch dcterms test, re-add after RDFa 1.1

Changelog for this week's release

This release incorporates the following changes to the underlying Core Modules and features to simplify and improve markup models:

  • the global by attribute was introduced for indicating the contributor of an element;
  • the document production roles author, editor, general-editor, translator, commentator and republisher were added for use in the by attribute;
  • the new description element was added for including and attaching accessible descriptions;
  • the global desc attribute was added for referencing a description from any element in a document;
  • the object element's content model has been changed to disallow nested objects;
  • the children of the object element are considered an implicit description of the object unless an explicit description is embedded;
  • the linking requirement for note and annotation have been changed so that either a noteref or annoref must point to them or they must point to some element in the document;
  • new annotation roles were added for indicating changes to the layout, presentation and rendering of a document;
  • the new annotation role temporary can be used to include production notes and other annotations not intended as part of a final document (and a schematron rule to generate warnings when present was also added);
  • the annoref element was added for linking from a text referent to an annotation (similar to the existing noteref element).
  • noteref is now an empty element and its identifier is added using the value attribute;
  • glossary entries assume an implicit association between their child term and definition when exactly one of each is present;
  • added the new role published-works for identifying sections of works also by the same author;
  • included a generalized version of the Content Rendering feature's prefix attribute for adding prefixes to any elements;
  • the sel:selid attribute has been added to the Content Selection feature to handle multiple, identical ID values in condition branches;
  • the XLink 1.1 schemas have been verified to be compliant with the formal Recommendation released May 6, 2010;
  • the SSML 1.1 schemas have been verified to be compliant with the formal Recommendation released September 7, 2010;
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