[accessibleimage] International Digital Publishing Forum Update

The IDPF's Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS) Working Group has
released two working draft specifications, the Open Publication
Structure
(OPS) 2.0 (internal working draft v0.7) and the Open Packaging Format
(OPF) 2.0 (internal working draft v0.7) for public distribution and
review as IDPF informational documents.  

The IDPF strongly encourages feedback from potential users, developers
and others, for the sake of improving interoperability and quality of
IDPF work.  The Working Group requests that comments to the
specifications be made before Wednesday, January 31st in order to
facilitate revision of the specifications.  The specifications are
available at:

OPS 2.0:
http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/informationaldocs/OPS/OPS_2.0_0.7_draft.htm


Feedback on the draft specifications should be made at:

http://www.idpf.org/forums under 
https://www.idpf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45   "OPS/OPF 2.0 Public
Drafts & Related Documents"

Links to all IDPF specification documents:
 http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm 

Document Summary

The OPS 2.0 and OPF 2.0 specifications are successors to OEBPS 1.2
which was released as an official IDPF specification in August 2002. 
The OPS specification describes a standard for representing the content
of electronic publications.  The OPF specification defines the mechanism
by which the various components of an OPS publication are tied together
and provides additional structure and semantics to the electronic
publication.
OPS/OPF will increase the viability and adoption of the previous OEBPS
standard as both a cross-reading system interchange and production
format as well as a final publication delivery format.
 
Both OPF and OPS are aligned with the OEBPS Container Format (OCF)
specification which defines the standard mechanism by which all
components of an electronic publication may be packaged together into a
single archive for transmission, delivery and archival purposes.  The
OCF specification was released as an official IDPF specification on
October 27th, 2006.
  
The OPS/OCF documents were submitted to the IDPF Board of Directors as
an Informational Document as defined by the IDPF's Policies and
Procedures, section 4.6.1.  While Informational Documents do not have an
official specification status in the organization, the Working Group
felt it important that IDPF members and the public have the opportunity
to review the draft specification in order to obtain feedback on the
current state of the proposal as well as to alert IDPF members that a
proposal is forthcoming in order to allocate appropriate resources for a
proper review.  The document is expected to be submitted to the official
IDPF output process in Q1 2007 which consists of Board of Director,
public, intellectual property and membership review and a final
membership vote.

This document was approved for submission by the Working Group on
Thursday, December 14th and approved for release by the IDPF Board of
Directors as anInformational Document on Friday, December 22nd.

The following documents may prove useful for introduction:

Working Group Charter: http://www.idpf.org/idpf_groups/oebpswg.htm 

Specification Requirements:
http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/informationaldocs/oebps_requirements.htm


IDPF member presentations on OPS, OPF & OCF:
http://www.idpf.org/events/presentations.htm 

Document Output Procedure

The OPS/OPF 2.0 documents are currently informational documents.  All
public comments made on the specification will be considered by the
Working Group and, if appropriate, edits to the working drafts will be
made.  The Working Group expects to submit a final draft specification
to the IDPF official output process in Q1 2007.

How to Make Comments on the Informational Documents

All comments are collected and addressed by the Working Groups in the
IDPF Standards Forums.  Please submit your comments to the IDPF
Standards Forum at:

http://www.idpf.org/forums under "OPS/OPF 2.0 Public Drafts & Related
Documents"
https://www.idpf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45 
 
I would like to thank all of the contributors to these documents for
their hard work and time.

Best,
Nick Bogaty

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Nick Bogaty
Executive Director
International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) nbogaty@xxxxxxxx 
www.idpf.org 
(212) 924-9081 direct
(212) 208-0978 fax

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