This struck a chord with me as the coming year promises to be a new beginning for our community which came together in 1999 as the Open EBook Forum (OEBF) to develop open standards for digital books, reinvented itself in 2005 with a broader remit when it became the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and then found mainstream success with the development of
the key EPUB standard.
Not exact matches
«Everyone is carrying on about Brazil, and it seems like there's almost a battleground in Japan, Brazil, and some of these other
key markets, and they're the guys who are pushing and innovating and contributing to the
ePub Standard.
A
key speaker, Bill McCoy of the IDPF, will lead a crash course in
EPUB 3 that promises to delve into the next major revision of the IDPF
standard, which intersects video, audio, scripting, MathML, enhanced layout, global language support, accessibility and metadata enhancements, and more.
He's a member of the OASIS DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers, a group trying to make the DocBook XML
standard more accessible for a wide range of professional publishers, and has played a
key role in extending O'Reilly's use of DocBook &
ePub.
The
key IDPF
standard is
EPUB ®, the current version is
EPUB 3.0.1.