the gnome may be interested in this... i'm especially fond of the sentence that includes this: > the differences between between 1.2 and and 2.0. -bowerbird ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Allen_Renear <allen@...> To: participants@... Subject: OEBPS 1.2 Review period ends May 28 A reminder that the official review period for OEBPS 1.2 "Draft Document" ends on May 27. Please send any comments to commentsoebps12@.... We would also appreciate hearing from members who have reviewed the draft, regardless of whether or not they have any questions, proposed corrections, or other specific comments. Information about accessing the document, and about the nature of this set of revisions, can be found below in the original announcement. Thank you. Allen Renear Chair, Publication Structure Working Group --------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:34:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Allen_Renear <allen@...> Reply-To: renear@... To: participants@... Subject: Review of OEBPS 1.2 begins On behalf of the OEBF Board of Directors, the Publication Structure Working Group is pleased to submit as a "Draft Document" for review and comment by the OEBF membership, version 1.2 of the OEB Publication Structure. Copies of the specification, in several formats are available at: http://www.openebook.org/oebps/oebps1.2/review/index.htm This version responds directly to the highest priority request from the OEBPS publishing community: enhanced support for content provider control over presentation. We emphasize that OEB 1.2 is not, by itself, the "new OEBPS specification" that that has been under development, although it is, conceptually, part of that specification. Original planning for the new OEBPS specification identified, as reported earlier, four areas for enhancement: content provider control over presentation, support for international content, linking and navigation functionality, and metadata support. The WG has worked intensely over the last year and a half and has made considerable progress in several of these areas. However we decided, with the approval of the OEBF Board and Systems Working Group, that rather than delaying the release of completed work in presentation control, the highest priority area, until all enhancements were completed, we should make presentation control work available now, particularly as it could be done with minimal impact on the conformance of existing content. Consequently OEBPS 1.2 is a tightly constrained update to OEBPS 1.0.1: it provides a great deal of new functionality in the area of presentation control, but it deliberately minimizes all other changes to 1.0.1. This deliberate restriction allows us to (i) make available high priority enhancements sooner rather than later, (ii) maximize compatibility with existing OEBPS content, and (iii) better factor the differences between between 1.2 and and 2.0. The relationship between OEBPS 1.0.1 and OEBPS 1.2 is more explicitly described in the OEBPS 1.2 submitted specification in section 1.4.4 ("Compatibility of Version 1.2"), section 1.7 ("Future Directions"), and APPENDIX D ("Differences Between the Basic OEBPS 1.2 and 1.0.1 Document Vocabularies") and we strongly encourage reviewers to turn immediately to these sections in order to understand the limited scope and intentions of OEBPS 1.2. The review and comment period lasts 30 days, ending at midnight ET May 27 2002. Please send any comments to commentsoebps12@... Allen Renear Chair, OEBF Publication Structure Working Group ----------------------------------------------- Allen Renear V: 217-265-5216 E: renear@... Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign