Use Cases Overview

Use Cases

• Portability
  • several UCs (based on the Locators TF discussions) (@Nick Ruffilo and Locators TF)
• Styling and Layout
  • Pagination API+details is out (but we should refer to existing documentation)
  • UC about merging several docs (paginated or continuous) and reading as one
• Identifiers
  • UC about identifier metadata
• Metadata
  • UC about discovery (based on "Discovery of Accessible eBooks") (@Romain Deltour to broaden examples so not exclusively about a11y)
• Content & Markup
  • UC about inter-publication linking (@Leonard Rosenthol and Locators TF)
  • UC about external resource (based on "Items with Shared Resources") (@Leonard Rosenthal and Locators TF)
  • UC about PWP being used as a dictionary (based on "User-added dictionary")
  • question: do we need a UC about polyfilling the browser rendering?
• Interaction
  • UC about scripting and communicating with a remote server (based on "Publication with Data" (merge with external resources? does scripting require special use cases? security model based on origins)
• Accessibility and Personalization (User Preferences)
  • Note: A11y TF said they'd further discuss it (@Charles, Deborah)
  • UC about personalization (based on "User Font Family Adjustments")
• Internationalization
  • question: are multiple-renditions in scope? (@Markus to find original use cases for multiple renditions from IDPF)
• Social Reading and Annotations (refer to Web Anno UCs (https://www.w3.org/annotation/wiki/Use_Cases)
  • UC with URLs to publications or fragment therein
  • UC with portability of the annotations with the PWP
  • UC of PWP made of annotations
• Packaging and Distribution
  • Question: what reqs do we want here? We need to discuss this.
    • streamability
    • updateability
    • package in package
    • DRM
    • ease of packaging / unpackaging (-> authoring)
• DRM
  • UC of DRM (based on "DRM-1" and "DRM-2")
• Security
  • UCs - need help
  • UCs - hosting third-party scripts, privacy policies (cookies and tracking services)
• Archiving
  • [] UCs - can PWP with scripts survive without a runtime? (@TimCole, Ayla, and Archiving TF)

Incoming

• incoming from archival TF?
• incoming from A11Y group?
• incoming from Locators group?

Out of scope

• Pagination details + API
• CJK requirements?
• Content-specific needs (e.g. STEM, Infographics, heading markup, etc)
• Structural semantics (left to DPUB-ARIA)