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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<title>Digital Publishing Interest Group</title>
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<p id="warning">DRAFT, under discussion, without any commitment that this
charter would be ever accepted!</p>
<div id="template">
<ul style="font-size: small" id="navbar">
<li><a href="#scope">Scope</a></li>
<li><a href="#deliverables">Deliverables</a></li>
<li><a href="#coordination">Dependencies and Liaisons</a></li>
<li><a href="#participation">Participation</a></li>
<li><a href="#communication">Communication</a></li>
<li><a href="#decisions">Decision Policy</a></li>
<li><a href="#patentpolicy">Patent Disclosures </a></li>
<li><a href="#about">About this Charter</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/"><img height="48" width="72" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home"
alt="W3C" /></a> </p>
<h1 id="title">Digital Publishing Interest Group Charter</h1>
<p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the Digital Publishing
Interest Group is to provide a technical forum for experts in the digital
publishing ecosystem to hold discussions and recommend solutions regarding a future
vision of Digital Publishing. This Interest Group is a continuation
of the previous Digital Publishing Interest Group whose original
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2013/02/digpubig.html">charter</a>
expires in September 2015, and it adds a more general vision on the
future of Digital Publishing to the goals to be accomplished. he Digital Publishing community represents a large community including electronic journals, magazines, news,
standards, and book publishing (authors, creators, publishers, news
organizations, booksellers, accessibility and internationalization
specialists, etc.) The main
message of that vision, which has already been discussed by the
community, is that the current format- and workflow-level separation
between offline/portable and online document publishing should be
diminished to zero. While this Interest Group is not chartered to
specify Recommendations, it will provide technical direction, identify
technical issues, and outline prototype solutions for relevant Working
Groups of the W3C to finalize as Web standards. Some of
the work will have to be done in a strong cooperation with existing
Working Groups at W3C or at IDPF to ensure a full compatibility with the
Open Web Platform.</p>
<div class="noprint">
<p class="join"><a href="https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/64149/join">Join
the Digital Publishing Interest Group</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><span
style="font-style: italic;" class="toadd"><br />
</span></p>
</div>
<table class="summary-table">
<tbody>
<tr id="Duration">
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1">End date</th>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">1 October 2017</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Confidentiality</th>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Proceedings are <a shape="rect" href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/comm.html#confidentiality-levels">
public </a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Proposed Initial Chairs</th>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Markus Gylling (IDPF and the Daisy
Consortium)<br />
Tzviya Siegman (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Initial Team Contacts<br />
(FTE %: 40)</th>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> Ivan Herman (0.4fte)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Usual Meeting Schedule</th>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Teleconferences: Weekly <br />
Face-to-face: As needed </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="scope">
<h2 id="scope">Scope</h2>
<p>Today’s digital publishing market is dynamic, fast-changing, and
strong. Electronic books, or eBooks, compete with printed versions,
and there is a wide choice of hardware and software available for
eBook readers. Journals and magazines are also made available
digitally on the web or in specialized applications and, in some
cases, their printed version is abandoned in favor of a purely
digital version. The formats used by eBook readers and tablets for
electronic books, magazines, journals and educational resources are
largely based on W3C technologies, such as (X)HTML, CSS, SVG, SMIL,
MathML, or various Web APIs.</p>
<p>The group is a continuation, under a new charter, of the Digital
Publishing Interest Group that started in 2013 and whose original <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2013/02/digpubig.html">charter</a> expires
in September 2015. That group has firmly established the presence of
the Digital Publishing Community within W3C and, vice versa, the
presence of W3C within the Digital Publishing Community. Work started
by that group in the area of <a href="https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Task_Forces/Accessibility">Accessibility</a>,
<a href="https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Task_Forces/Latinreq">Layout
& Styling</a>, <a href="https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/UseCase_Directory#Pagination.2FDOM_interaction">Pagination</a>,
or <a href="https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Task_Forces/Content_and_Markup">Content
& Markup</a>, will be continued and completed by this newly
chartered group. The results of the earlier incarnation of this
Interest Group will provide a strong basis for the work of this
new Interest Group. </p>
<p>Of particular interest to this group is the advancement
of EPUB 3. EPUB 3 ensures the introduction of highly dynamic
and interactive digital documents whose features resemble more
of what the Web generally provides. This can be seen through a new
breed of interactive books in, for example, the educational domain.
The same technical possibilities in that domain have the potential
to revolutionize such diverse areas as journal and magazine
publications (including scholarly journal publishing), the archiving
of Web content, and in-house publishing of documentations by large
corporations. The vision for the convergence of digital documents
and the Web has been summarized in a separate white paper entitled
<a href="http://w3c.github.io/epubweb/draft/">“Advancing
Portable Documents for the Open Web Platform: EPUB+WEB”</a> as
follows:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Our vision […] is that portable documents become fully native
citizens of the Open Web Platform. In this vision, the current
format- and workflow-level separation between offline/portable […]
and online […] document publishing is diminished to zero. These are
merely two dynamic manifestations of the same publication: content
authored with online use as the primary mode can easily be saved by
the user for offline reading in portable document form. […]
Publishers can choose to utilize either or both of these publishing
modes, and users can choose either or both of these consumption
modes. Essential features flow seamlessly between online and offline
modes; examples include cross-references, user annotations, access
to online databases, as well as licensing and rights management.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Turning this vision into reality, however, requires significant
technical work. Some of the issues are already addressed in existing
W3C Working Groups (e.g., the CSS, HTML5, or the Web Applications
Working Groups) but it is very important that those activities take
into account the use cases and requirements of the digital
publishing industry through review responses, comments, and direct
participation in those Working Groups. There are also a number of
technical challenges specific to this vision that will also
necessitate targeted specification work. A <a href="http://w3c.github.io/epubweb/draft/#achieving-convergence-work-areas">first
set of technical challenges</a> have been identified in the white
paper; the most important ones are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://w3c.github.io/epubweb/#generic-archive-format-for-the-portable-offline-state">Generic
archive format for the portable/offline state</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w3c.github.io/epubweb/#document-and-fragment-identification">Document
and fragment identification</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w3c.github.io/epubweb/#styling-and-layout-pagination">Styling
and Layout, Pagination</a></li>
</ul>
<p>However, it is not yet clear, at this moment, which of these (or
other) challenges will require targeted work by this Interest Group
and which should be done in cooperation with existing Working Groups.
In light of this, the goal of this Interest Group is to</p>
<ul>
<li>provide an in-depth and exhaustive overview of the technical
challenges that should be solved to make the EPUB+WEB vision a
reality; and,</li>
<li>determine, and take the necessary actions in the form of
prototyping technical solutions or specifications, whether these
challenges should be addressed through </li>
<ul>
<li>new Working Groups at W3C, in which case the Interest Group will
actively contribute to the chartering of those groups, or</li>
<li>cooperation with other W3C groups (in which case the Interest
Group will provide feedback, comments, and requirements to those
Groups to ensure the necessary convergence, and will encourage
members of the Interest Group to actively participate in those
Working Groups), or</li>
<li>the publication of non-normative documents, like Interest Group
Notes, of prototypical technical solutions, or</li>
<li>by Working Groups at other organizations, like the International
Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) or the Book Industry Study Group
(BISG), in which case strong liaisons will established with those
groups.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p>In addition to these work items, the Interest Group will also
establish an active collaborative relationship with IDPF around
the work on the EPUB 3.1. This work, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bvmd_wd8Tcq6MdVd8VkL308Mpfgpsv9Aw-IAwd3g0B0/edit#">chartered by IDPF</a> in 2015, aims to include a number of backward compatible
changes to EPUB 3.01, adding new features and deprecating others. Many
of those changes aim at bringing EPUB even closer to the Open Web
Platform and, thereby, contributing to the vision of EPUB+WEB. The
Interest Group will act as an advisory group to IDPF on the OWP
related features, as well as a conduit to other groups at W3C.</p>
<h3>Success Criteria</h3>
<br />
<p>The group has succeeded if</p>
<ul>
<li>the group has successfully completed the work started by the
previous version of the Interest Group on Accessibility, Pagination,
or Content & Markup;</li>
<li>a clear migration path towards the vision expressed in the
EPUB+WEB White Paper has been established, including a clear view of
the technical challenges and issues to solve;</li>
<li>a fruitful cooperation is established between the Interest Group
and the relevant Working Groups at W3C, reflected by a successful
harmonization between the needs of the publishing industry at large,
and EPUB+WEB in particular, and constituents of the Open Web
Platform; </li>
<li>the group has successfully contributed establishing the Working
Group(s) essential to turn the EPUB+WEB vision a reality;</li>
<li>members of the Interest Group join the relevant Working Groups to
participate and possibly drive the development of the specific work
items that are in development and are considered to be important for
the EPUB+WEB vision;</li>
<li>production of stable documents addressing the work items listed in
the <a href="#deliverables">Deliverables’</a> section;</li>
<li>the Interest Group has provided useful advice an help to IDPF in
developing EPUB 3.1; and,</li>
<li>a productive and stable set of liaisons is set up between the
Digital Publishing industry and its representative organizations
like the IDPF, EDItEUR, or BISG, and the various W3C Working Groups.
These liaisons should define how W3C Working Groups can request
technical comments from those external organizations, and how those
external organizations can convey their requirements to current and
future Working Groups. These liaisons should remain active even when
the Interest Group is closed.</li>
</ul>
<div>
<h3>Out of Scope</h3>
<p>This Interest Group is not chartered to develop final
specifications, i.e., Recommendations. That must be done in relevant
W3C Working Groups, either pre-existing or newly chartered, with a
direct participation of the interested parties.</p>
<p>This Interest Group is not chartered to work on issues and use
cases that are relevant exclusively to non-W3C standards and
specifications (e.g., Unicode), although the evolution of those
Specifications should be followed as they may influence the
deliverables of this group.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<h2 id="deliverables">Deliverables</h2>
<p>The list of deliverables below is not complete; new items may appear,
e.g., as a result of the analysis on EPUB+WEB, questions arising in
conjunction with the EPUB 3.1 work, or as outcome of the specific
works in IG Task Forces.</p>
<dl id="deliverable-list">
<dt>EPUB+WEB in General</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Exhaustive overview of the technical challenges raised by the
EPUB+WEB vision. <span class="compl-date">October 2016</span></li>
<li>Final version of the EPUB+WEB document, possibly published as
an Interest Group Note. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span
class="compl-date"> July 2017</span></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Accessibility:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Interest Group Note on the relationships between the needs of
the Publishing Industry and the various W3C Accessibility
Guidelines. <span class="compl-date">January 2016</span></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>STEM Publishing</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Publication of the findings of STEM surveys. <span class="compl-date">January
2016</span></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Styling, Pagination:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Functional requirements on pagination. <span class="compl-date">April
2016</span></li>
<li>Analysis, with a prototype solution, for pagination based on
the latest approaches of the CSS Working Group (e.g., the
outcome of the Houdini project). <span class="compl-date">February
2017</span></li>
<li>Interest Group Note on Requirements for Latin Text Layout and
Pagination. <span class="compl-date">July 2017</span></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Content & Markup:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Finalization of the specification on structural semantics in
cooperation with the WAI Protocols and Formats and the HTML
Working Groups. <span class="compl-date">July 2016</span></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Packaging:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Functional requirements on pagination. <span class="compl-date">January
2016</span></li>
<li>Analysis, with a possible prototype solution, for pagination
based on the latest approaches of the Web Application Working
Group (e.g., work on Service Workers). <span class="compl-date">January
2017</span></li>
<li>If applicable: charter of a Working Group on Packaging for
Digital Publishing. <span class="compl-date">October 2016</span></li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>Fragment Identification:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Functional requirements on identification and fragments. <span
class="compl-date">January 2016</span></li>
<li>Analysis, with a possible prototype solution, for
identification and fragmentation, based the latest approaches of
the Web Application Working Group (e.g., work on Service
Workers) as well as with the TAG on possible Web Architectural
issues. <span class="compl-date">January 2017</span></li>
<li>If applicable: charter of a Working Group on Fragment
Identifiers for Digital Publishing. <span class="compl-date">October
2016</span></li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<div>
<h3 id="timeline">Timeline</h3>
<p>The timelines below are based on a starting date of October 2015.
In case there is a delay in schedule, the milestones below shift
accordingly. </p>
<p>The timelines reflect the deliverables listed in the <a href="#deliverables">previous
section</a>; new deliverables may be defined during the lifetime
of the group that may modify/extend the list of milestones.</p>
<ul>
<li>October 2015: DPUB IG F2F meeting (in conjunction with the TPAC
meeting in Sapporo)</li>
<li>January 2016: Accessibility Interest Group Note; Packaging and
Fragment Identification Functional Requirements; Findings of the
STEM surveys</li>
<li>February 2016: Last Call Working Draft for the Structural
Semantics specification</li>
<li>April 2016: Functional requirements on Pagination</li>
<li>June 2016: DPUB IG F2F meeting (in conjunction with the IDPF
Digital Book Conference, probably Chicago)</li>
<li>July 2016: Final version of the structural semantics
specification as Recommendation</li>
<li>September 2016: DPUB IG F2F meeting (in conjunction with the
TPAC meeting in Lisbon)</li>
<li>October 2016: Exhaustive overview of EPUB+WEB technical challenges;
charters for a W3C WG on Packaging and for Fragment Identifiers</li>
<li>January 2017: analysis and possible prototype solution for
pagination, for packaging, and for fragment identification</li>
<li>February 2017: analysis, with prototype solution, of pagination</li>
<li>June 2017: DPUB IG F2F meeting (in conjunction with the IDPF
IDPF Digital Book Conference)</li>
<li>July 2017: EPUB+WEB White Paper publication as IG Note; Final
version of the Latinreq IG Note</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="dependencies">
<h2 id="coordination"><a name="depliaisons"></a>Dependencies and
Liaisons</h2>
<br />
<h3><a name="liaisons">W3C</a> Groups</h3>
<p>This is an initial list of the activities and groups the Interest
Group will consider when starting its work. The goal of these
liaisons is to ensure harmonization of the technical requirements
and provide feedback. The importance of these will be evaluated
during the lifetime of the Interest Group; this also means that
some groups may not be contacted if the Interest Group does not
find any issues and problems worth raising after all. The list of
these groups, with a short description of the technical area of
interest, includes:</p>
<dl>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members">CSS Working Group</a></dt>
<dd>CSS has a fundamental importance in formatting any type of digital
publication.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a></dt>
<dd>(X)HTML is <span style="font-style: italic;">the</span> document
format of choice for electronic books and, of course, for magazines
and journals published on the Web, which also includes a general
transition towards HTML5 (e.g., in EPUB3.1).</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/annotation/">Web Annotation Working
Group</a></dt>
<dd>The possibility of adding and maintaining annotations on portable
documents is crucial in some publication areas (e.g., educational
publications or scholarly articles). The work on robust anchoring in
that Working Group will also contribute to the Fragment Identifier
work planned by the Interest Group.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/">WebFonts Working Group</a></dt>
<dd>High quality fonts are fundamental for many areas within the
digital publication industry.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/">SVG Working Group</a></dt>
<dd>The latest publishing standards (e.g., EPUB3) include SVG, also as
a possible replacement of HTML as the “top level” format for
publications like mangas. As such, SVG plays a vital role for,
among other things, the educational publishing market, children’s
literature, or high quality illustrations in books.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/Math/Group/">Math Working Group</a></dt>
<dd>MathML is part of the EPUB3 standard and is the format of choice
to describe mathematical equations.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/core/">Internationalization
Working Group</a></dt>
<dd>Proper localization and consideration for local typesetting,
formatting, etc., traditions can be vital for some publishing markets.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/">Web Applications
Working Group</a></dt>
<dd>On line magazines and journals are increasingly dependent on
various APIs to make their content more interactive and appealing;
EPUB3 has also introduced the possibility to include scripts in
electronic books, which may be important for, e.g., the educational
market. Furthermore, the Web Application Working Group works on
technical components like Web Packaging, Web Workers, or Service
Workers that are crucial in ensuring a smooth transition between
offline and online manifestations of contents.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/testing/browser/">Browser Testing and
Tools Working Group<br />
</a></dt>
<dd>Interoperability of electronic book readers is considered to be a
major challenge by that community; cooperating with the W3C testing
activities would also provide specialized use cases to the
Recommendations in general.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/2009/dap/">Device APIs Working Group</a></dt>
<dd>The main market for digital magazines, book readers, journals,
etc., are on mobile space, like tablets, smart phones, or
specialized devices. </dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/">Protocols and Formats Working
Group</a></dt>
<dd>The technical work around ARIA has a direct relationship to some
of the work around structural semantics in portable documents, e.g.,
in EPUB.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative<br />
</a></dt>
<dd>Accessibility issues for journals and electronic books are of a
major importance, and the overall work of WAI provides crucial
resources to digital publishing in this respect. Furthermore,
digital publishing represent a major user community for Web
Accessibility in general.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/">Technical Architecture
Group</a></dt>
<dd>Some of the issues raised by the EPUB+WEB vision (e.g., linking,
packaging) are related to overall web architectural issues and
principles.</dd>
</dl>
<div>
<h3 id="extgroups">External Groups</h3>
<dl>
<dt><a href="https://idpf.org">International Digital Publishing
Forum (IDPF)</a></dt>
<dd>IDPF is the body where the major eBook standard, EPUB, is
developed and maintained. IDPF is also part of a joint (temporary)
committee with ISO to work on an ISO version of EPUB3. IDPF is the
major partner in developing the EPUB+WEB vision.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.bisg.org">Book Industry Study Group (BISG)</a></dt>
<dd>BISG’s involvement with book metadata vocabulary development, as
well as their testing/evaluating platforms for EPUB, make them a
major player in the electronic books ecosystem.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://editeur.org/">EDItEUR</a></dt>
<dd>The body responsible for the main metadata vocabulary used by
the Book Industry.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.iptc.org">International Press and
Telecommuncations Council (IPTC)</a></dt>
<dd>IPTC regroups the news publishing industry.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.daisy.org">Daisy Consortium</a></dt>
<dd>The Daisy Consortium is a global consortium that plays an
essential role in ensuring the accessibility of Web sites and of
electronic books.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.idealliance.org/">International Digital
Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance)</a></dt>
<dd>IDEAlliance is involved in industry-standard metadata (PRISM)
that can be used to build efficient, multi-channel publishing
solutions.</dd>
<dt><a href="https://www.force11.org/about">Force11</a></dt>
<dd>Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists,
publishers and research funders whose aim to bring about a change
in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of
information technology.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="participation">
<h2 id="participation">Participation</h2>
<p>Participation in the Digital Publishing Interest Group is open to all
W3C Members. Individuals who wish to participate as Invited Experts
(i.e., they do not represent a W3C Member) should refer to the <a shape="rect"
href="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/invexp.html">policy for approval of
Invited Experts</a>. Invited Experts in this group are not granted
access to Member-only information. Effective participation in the
Interest Group is expected to consume one day work per week for each
participant. </p>
<p>The group may decide to create Task Forces within the Interest Group
to concentrate on major relevant constituencies, for example
electronic books, journal/magazine publishing, or educational
publishing. These Task Forces may organize separate teleconferences,
meetings, and may be responsible for one or more deliverables. </p>
<p>There are no minimum requirements for participation in this group.
Participants are strongly encouraged to take advantage of frequent
opportunities to review and comment on deliverables from other groups.</p>
<p>The Chair may call occasional meetings consistent with the <a shape="rect"
href="/Consortium/Process/policies#GeneralMeetings">W3C Process
requirements for meetings</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="communication">
<h2 id="communication">Communication</h2>
<p>This group primarily conducts its work on the mailing list<span style="font-style: italic;">
public-digipub-ig@w3.org </span><span class="toadd"></span>with <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-digipub-ig/">public
archives</a>. Administrative tasks may be conducted in Member-only
communications. </p>
<p>Information about the group (deliverables, participants, face-to-face
meetings, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the <a href="http://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/">Digital
Publishing Interest Group home page</a></p>
<p>The role of <a href="#depliaisons">dependencies and liaisons</a>
with various external groups is fundamental to the success of this
Interest Group; the group will therefore set up active liaisons early
in the process to ensure that the use cases and requirements are
provided to other groups in a timely manner.</p>
</div>
<div class="decisions">
<h2 id="decisions">Decision Policy</h2>
<p>As explained in the Process Document (<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/#Consensus">section
3.3</a>), this group will seek to make decisions when there is
consensus. When the Chair puts a question and observes dissent, after
due consideration of different opinions, the Chair should record a
decision (possibly after a formal vote) and any objections, and move
on. <br />
<br />
A formal vote should allow for remote asynchronous
participation—using, for example, email and/or web-based survey
techniques. Any resolution taken in a face-to-face meeting or
teleconference is to be considered provisional until 5 working days
after the publication of the resolution in draft minutes sent to the
group's mailing list. </p>
<p>If the group decides to create Task Forces, these may be responsible
for one or more deliverables. However, final decisions are taken at
the Interest Group level as described above.</p>
<p>This charter is written in accordance with <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/#Votes">Section
3.4, Votes</a> of the W3C Process Document and includes no voting
procedures beyond what the Process Document requires. </p>
</div>
<div class="patent">
<h2 id="patentpolicy">Patent Disclosures </h2>
<p>The Digital Publishing Interest Group provides an opportunity to
share perspectives on the topic addressed by this charter. W3C reminds
Interest Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent
disclosure obligations as set out in <a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-Disclosure">Section
6</a> of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Interest Group does not
produce Recommendation-track documents, when Interest Group
participants review Recommendation-track specifications from Working
Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply.</p>
<p>For more information about disclosure obligations for this group,
please see the <a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/">W3C
Patent Policy Implementation</a>.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="about">About this Charter</h2>
<p>This charter for the Digital Publishing Interest Group has been created
according to <a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/#ReqsAllGroups">section
6.1</a> of the <a shape="rect" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process">Process
Document</a>. In the event of a conflict between this document or the
provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall
take precedence.</p>
<div class="todo">
<h2>To be done before publishing the charter</h2>
<ul>
<li>References to the draft EPUB+WEB should be exchanged against the
final one (including an update of the White Paper proper)</li>
<li>References to the final charter of EPUB3.1 instead of the google
doc one</li>
<li>Remove this section :-)</li>
</ul>
</div>
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