Makoto Murata

Murata is an XML expert. He participated in the standardization of XML as a member of the W3C XML Working Group. He contributed to RELAX NG and NVDL, which are schema languages for XML. He has been the convener of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG4 (OOML) since 2008, and he has been the coordinator of the Enhanced Global Language Support Sub-group of the IDPF ePUB Revision Working Group since June 2010. He graduated from the Science Department of Kyoto University, and holds a Ph.D. from Tsukuba University.

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Session: ePUB 3.0: The next generation e-book standard based on HTML5 and CSS3

The ePUB format is a standard for formatting electronic books, or e-books. The ePUB Technical Committee is currently working on the next version, ePUB 3.0, which is based on HTML5, CSS, and SVG, and is designed to be compatible with major browser engines. In this session, a panel of experts who are closely involved with ePUB 3.0 will discuss the format, and some of the problems and challenges involved in developing it. The session will pay special attention to issues of language support in ePUB, with a particular focus on providing vertical-text support — important for e-books in Japan, Taiwan, and China. These issues are currently being addressed by the Extended Global Language Support (EGLS) subgroup of the ePUB Technical Committee.