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International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) Approves Indexes Working Group

The Indexes Working Group is now identifying additional participants and setting its meeting calendar and agenda. Any representative of an IDPF organization member (the IDPF consists of 300+ publishers, organizations, software and device developers, etc.) can participate and a small number of invited experts, who are not IDPF representatives, can also be included. It is hoped that participants will include representatives of publishers, e-reader developers, software tool developers, and librarians, as well as indexers who have experience with technologies, such as XML, HTML, and online and web indexing. Interested parties should contact David K. Ream, co-chair of ASI’s DTTF at daveream@levtechinc.com.

The Indexes Charter Proposal team, consisting of ASI Digital Trends Task Force (DTTF) members and IDPF members, completed the proposal in late November 2011 after public peer review in the U.S. and internationally. At a December meeting, the IDPF board had unanimously approved putting the Indexes Charter Proposal to a vote by the full membership.

The ASI established the DTTF in mid-2011. One goal was to influence the inclusion of indexes in ebooks. To achieve this end, ASI became a member of the IDPF and began working on a proposal to better integrate indexes as components of ebooks formatted using EPUB 3.0.

For information on the activities of the DTTF beyond the EPUB standard, email dttf@asindexing.org, or visit www.asindexing.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3647. LinkedIn members can search for the discussion group “ASI Digital Trends Task Force.”

Source: ASI