ISO 1951 is a delivery format standard. Not that I'm advocating it, not
at all, but it would seem kind of natural to see what their take on it is.

At night, I might be grumpier than usual... ;-)

best,

  P.

On 05/12/11 23:11, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> They looked at TEI and others when considering whether to include this
> in EPUB 3 but decided that it did more than necessary.  EPUB is meant as
> a format for delivery, not an archival format, so they are only trying
> to cover the limited set of use cases described here.
> 
> On 12/5/2011 5:09 PM, Piotr Bański wrote:
>> Thanks, Kevin,
>>
>> One would think that proposing a new standard, even one of restricted
>> scope, would entail having consulted and referenced other existing
>> standards, or at least would require notifying the target groups
>> (Lexicog and Euralex lists come to mind, minimally).
>>
>> Oh well. I'll push this into Lexicog, at least.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>    Piotr
>>
>>
>> On 05/12/11 17:50, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>> Forwarding this from the mailing list of the IDPF EPUB Working Group.
>>> Note the draft proposal for a working group on facilitating inclusion of
>>> dictionaries in EPUB.  I believe feedback should be sent to Markus
>>> Gylling, whose email is given in Google Code.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:epub-working-
>>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Markus Gylling
>>>> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 5:50 PM
>>>> To: Google Groups EPUB
>>>> Subject: Re: Charter proposals for dictionaries and indexes projects
>>>> now available for comment
>>>>
>>>> … and the proposals are available at
>>>>
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/wiki/DictionariesCharterProposal
>>>> and
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/wiki/IndexesCharterProposal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 2, 2011, at 11:29 PM, Markus Gylling wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> following the virtual workshop on dictionaries and indexes that was
>>>> held on 18 October, the ad-hoc groups that were formed have now
>>>> published drafts of charter proposals for two working groups on indexes
>>>> and dictionaries, respectively.
>>>>>
>>>>> As per IDPFs policies and procedures, these are hereby submitted to
>>>> the membership for a 14 day comment period (ending December 16, 2011).
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments received will be reviewed by the AHGs and IDPF board and the
>>>> subsequent step would be for a revised version of the proposal to be
>>>> approved by the IDPF board for submission to members for a consent vote
>>>> to approve working group creation.
>>>>>
>>>>> We welcome your input!
>>>>>
>>>>> On behalf of the AHGs,
>>>>>
>>>>> /markus
>>>
>