IRC log of pcg-ed on 2022-11-02

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13:59:24 [Bill_Kasdorf]
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nobody's on the Zoom--I must have an outdated link.
14:00:17 [Bill_Kasdorf]
never mind, hi, Charles!
14:00:17 [Paul_Belfanti]
zakim, start meeting
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please title this meeting ("meeting: ..."), Paul_Belfanti
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present+
14:02:03 [Paul_Belfanti]
Meeting: Publishing Community Group, Education Task Force Telecon Date: 02 November, 2022 Chair: Paul Belfanti
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Apologies, Zoom has decided to install updates...
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present+
14:07:49 [Bill_Kasdorf]
present+
14:08:04 [CharlesL]
agenda?
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14:09:05 [Paul_Belfanti]
scribenick: sue-neu
14:09:30 [CharlesL]
agenda+ Review use case submitted by Gautier Chomel https://github.com/w3c/publishingcg/issues/46
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agenda+ Review additional use cases (if any)
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agenda+ Discuss challenges/progress on creating use cases
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agenda+ Other business as time permits
14:09:44 [CharlesL]
agenda?
14:09:57 [CharlesL]
zakim, next item
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agendum 1 -- Review use case submitted by Gautier Chomel https://github.com/w3c/publishingcg/issues/46 -- taken up [from CharlesL]
14:11:39 [sue-neu]
Paul - here we are at the first agenda item, Gautier did a use case, so let's look at it here
14:12:38 [sue-neu]
We should come up with a protocol for reviewing these..
14:12:49 [sue-neu]
...I don't think this is going to be an unknown topic here
14:13:41 [sue-neu]
Bill he did a very good job structuring this
14:13:59 [sue-neu]
Paul, this is very epub focused, and our scope is broader than that
14:14:16 [sue-neu]
perhaps we can add "or website"
14:14:37 [sue-neu]
Bill Can you make annotations on a website? You can bookmark a web page...
14:15:17 [sue-neu]
Charles a third-party host might be a solution
14:15:28 [CharlesL]
https://web.hypothes.is/
14:15:53 [sue-neu]
Bill like a third party product?
14:16:18 [sue-neu]
Paul we can add some comments to this, and the next step is to bring this to the publishing community
14:16:36 [sue-neu]
I think this is ready for incubation, I'll get it on the list for the next meeting
14:17:02 [sue-neu]
Bill, there are things people are looking at, like locators, that could relate to this.
14:17:10 [sue-neu]
addressability is the problem
14:17:23 [sue-neu]
Paul what do you mean by addressability?
14:17:44 [sue-neu]
Bill the ability to point to a particular resource, we have CFI in Epub
14:18:19 [sue-neu]
Charles mentioned hypothesis of outside website in Use Case comments
14:18:32 [CharlesL]
zakim, take up next item
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agendum 2 -- Review additional use cases (if any) -- taken up [from CharlesL]
14:18:39 [sue-neu]
Paul, we have no Use Cases, so we can talk about getting more
14:19:02 [Bill_Kasdorf]
s/a particular resource/a location within a particular resource/
14:19:05 [sue-neu]
I'm hopeful I'll be able to connect, but it's clearly going to be time consuming to find the right person who is ready and willing
14:20:34 [sue-neu]
I'm afraid the response would be too big if I post this on LinkedIN
14:20:55 [sue-neu]
SUSAN: I've had two good interviews
14:21:01 [sue-neu]
I'm still collating the data
14:21:26 [sue-neu]
I spoke to a librarian who manages digital collections
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And an ebook producer consultant
14:22:01 [Bill_Kasdorf]
Sue, were those education-focused?
14:22:12 [sue-neu]
Bill, yes.
14:22:19 [Bill_Kasdorf]
Excellent!
14:22:25 [sue-neu]
I can share my Miro board with the data
14:22:47 [sue-neu]
She had a lot to say!
14:23:15 [sue-neu]
Yes, she works for a University
14:23:28 [sue-neu]
Graduate level clinical students. She helps them with their research
14:24:46 [sue-neu]
Sue's Miro board with interview data
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https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPHmhWnk=/?share_link_id=441991812353
14:25:14 [sue-neu]
Charles are journals worth looking into?
14:26:06 [sue-neu]
Bill most journals are online or use PDF, I'm doing a presentation on accessibility, and I make the point that a journal article is just html
14:26:32 [sue-neu]
I have a slide about What's so good about epub? I go line by line for six or eight advantages
14:27:00 [sue-neu]
I get acomment "What about PDFs"? and I point out that it isn't as accessible as epub
14:28:06 [sue-neu]
Bill I'm a member if Jats4r ? working group, working on Jax xml which is the linqua franca of journal publishing. I am on the accessibility task force.
14:29:15 [sue-neu]
I'm meeting with a physics based group that manages a server full of articles, highly visible, and will be talking with them about accessibility.
14:29:17 [sue-neu]
He
14:29:38 [sue-neu]
He's another good intervie candidate — what obsticles are you finding?
14:29:57 [sue-neu]
The biggest obstacle with journal articles is that the writers just want PDFs
14:30:50 [sue-neu]
Bill -I've got a slide that says "my journal readers want a PDF because that's what journal articles should look like"
14:31:36 [sue-neu]
Charles: that brings up another use case, DSO offices, students are asking for PDFs of a single chapter. What we need to be able to do is split up content in smaller pieces
14:32:00 [sue-neu]
...there is probably a blind person who doesn't want a PDF
14:32:30 [sue-neu]
Bill there are probably html entities that are just chapters? Is it possible to pull those out
14:33:09 [sue-neu]
Charles if you had a server, you could send a link to the student that extracts only that chapter
14:33:39 [sue-neu]
Paul: that sounds like a problem that can be solved with technology that exists today
14:34:18 [sue-neu]
Charles what I keep hearing from DSO offices is that it is easy to take a chapter out of a PDF, but not an EPUB
14:35:23 [sue-neu]
Typically when the DSO department gets a request from a student they ask for the PDF from the publisher
14:35:58 [sue-neu]
Paul the DSO offices usually just ask for the raw data and they do the heavy lifting
14:36:38 [Paul_Belfanti]
DSO = Disability Services Office
14:36:40 [sue-neu]
Bill just extracting that html file might not be sufficient, there may be images and fonts, especially if diacriticals are required
14:37:20 [sue-neu]
Charles to make it more broad, when extracting a chapter from an EPUB we would want the flexibility to make it a web page
14:37:30 [sue-neu]
Students don't know how to deal with epubs
14:37:59 [sue-neu]
Bill, they probably all have Kindles or Kobos but don't realize it started as an epub
14:38:17 [sue-neu]
Charles: I will try to write up that use case today
14:38:34 [sue-neu]
Paul, this was a good meeting
14:38:41 [Bill_Kasdorf]
s/diacriticals/diacriticals or special scripts/
14:39:31 [sue-neu]
Susan: I like this time, too
14:40:09 [CharlesL]
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I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2022/11/02-pcg-ed-minutes.html CharlesL
14:41:42 [CharlesL]
regrets+ Tzviya, Rick
14:41:45 [CharlesL]
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I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2022/11/02-pcg-ed-minutes.html CharlesL
14:41:49 [sue-neu]
s/a particular resource/a location within a particular resource/
14:42:03 [CharlesL]
chair: Paul
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I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2022/11/02-pcg-ed-minutes.html CharlesL
14:43:20 [CharlesL]
trackbot, end meeting
14:43:56 [CharlesL]
rrsagent, bye
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I see no action items