W3C

Publishing Maintenance Working Group Annotation Task Force Telco

02 October 2025

Attendees

Present
brady, dale, duga5, gautierchomel, hadrien, ivan, kimberg, LaurentLM, toshiakikoike
Regrets
-
Chair
laurentlm
Scribe
DaleRogers

Meeting minutes

<ivan> https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/wg-notes/annotations-ucr/

LaurentLM: Use Cases and Requirements have been updated

ivan: Change terminology?

ivan: Change terminology?

LaurentLM: Use Cases and Requirements have been updated.
… going through document one by one.
… discussing Locator types

duga5: Should be select text range when selecting text?

ivan: Should we have an option of selecting full view for audio?

LaurentLM: Moving to 9.3.3 Annotation Content
… no comments. Moving to 9.4.4

LaurentLM: Remove last bullet in 9.2.2. Repeated in 9.4.4
… moving to 9.5.5 Export and Import

duga5: Is highlight types supported for users in 9.3.3

Hadrien: Yes.

Discussing highlight types

duga5: I don't see a highlight type for bookmark. Does that exist?

Hadrien: Discussing different types of case studies and approaches for highlighting

duga5: Do we have control over the presentation or decoration of Bookmarks?

Hadrien: Sometimes decoration is used to given context to the user

LaurentLM: Moving 9.6.6 Citation Support

ivan: The number of different citation methods in publications are immense. How can we cover them all?

Hadrien: I'm not sure we can handle them all.

ivan: EPUB would have to be extended to accomplish that.

gautierchomel: Make sure that we can add other contextual information as cases are identified.

ivan: Propose that we remove the style requirement since there are so many possibilities.

ivan: We should be able to export the metadata. We should not export styling information.

LaurentLM: I will reword the section.

Hadrien: I am concerned about the overwhelming amount of options passed to reading systems.
… Identify some key metadata elements.

LaurentLM: I will open an issue.
… moving to 9.7.7 Synchronization

ivan: Synchronization is a complicated problem to solve
… synchronization depends on third party solutions that we do not want to take on.

LaurentLM: Do we want to remove this section?

duga5: Is this going to create problems later, since it may be requested in the future?
… Will this affect how we set up the JSON?

Procedural discussion on how to thread and use timestamps in the JSON

gautierchomel: I propose that we keep it in as a historical reference to the conversation.
… and note it as out of scope.

Hadrien: Can we specify the JSON metadata as a snapshot?

LaurentLM: Yes. Let's make a note that synchronization is out of scope.
… moving to 9.8.8 Version Resilience

Hadrien: Concerned about automatic reposition of annotations.

ivan: We need to keep that option available.

ivan: Want to present information at F2F meeting.
… Want a summary and synthesis

LaurentLM: We'll meet again in 1 month

Getting clearer on terminology for locators and selectors

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 244 (Thu Feb 27 01:23:09 2025 UTC).