Current IDPF Activities
EPUB Specifications
Under Development
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EPUB for Education |
Profile of EPUB 3 to standardize educational publishing. Chartered under EPUB 3.0. |
Draft Specification: |
TBD |
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Open Annotation in EPUB |
Define how to apply Open Annotations in the context of EPUB, thereby enabling users and service providers to utilize a non-proprietary representation of annotation data. Chartered under EPUB 3.0. |
TBD |
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Scriptable Components |
Packaging and integration of widgets in EPUB, and an API for communication between dynamic scripted components. Chartered under EPUB 3.0. |
Draft Specification: |
TBD |
Upcoming
No announcements at this time.
Other Projects
| Description | More Information | Contact | |
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| EPUB 3 Reading System Conformance Test Suite | Development of materials and methods for the evaluation of feature coverage in EPUB Reading Systems. | Project homepage | BISG |
| EPUB 3 Samples | Crowd-sourced repository of EPUB 3 sample documents. | Issue Tracker | |
| EPUBCheck | Validation tool for EPUB 2 and 3 documents. |
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Issue Tracker |
| Readium.org | An independent open source foundation developing EPUB software. | Project homepage | Forum |
Recently Completed Specifications and Projects
| Description | Date | References | |
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EPUB 3.1 |
Major revision to the EPUB specification. |
2017-01-05 |
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EPUB Accessibility |
Discovery and production requirements for accessible EPUB Publications. |
2017-01-05 |
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Indexes |
Define a content model for the representation of indexes in EPUB documents. |
2015-08-26 |
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Dictionaries and Glossaries |
Define a content model for the representation of dictionaries and glossaries in EPUB documents. |
2015-08-26 |
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Advanced/Hybrid Layouts |
Extend EPUB 3 functionality to improve user and context adaptation, and enhance the reading of image-based publications such as comics and magazines. |
2015-08-26 |
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EPUB 3.0.1 |
Minor revision to the EPUB specifications. |
2014-06-26 |
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EPUB 3 Best Practices |
In collaboration with O'Reilly, a guide to best practices for creating EPUB content. |
2013-01-28 |
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Advanced Adaptive Layout |
CSS Page Templates - allowing content to be formatted into a sequence of richly-designed reflowable pages. |
2012-08-08 |
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Fixed Layout Metadata |
Interoperable metadata expressions for fixed-layout EPUB documents. |
2012-03-13 |
Informational Document (historical). |
Last updated: 2014-11-02
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