Balisage Paper: WebVTT versus TTML: XML considered harmful for web captions?

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013
August 6 - 9, 2013

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Slides and Materials

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Bovens, Andreas, No more "XML parsing failed" errors, 28 September 2011. http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2011/09/28/no-more-xml-parsing-failed-errors

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Çelik, Tantek, XHTML Is Dead, Long Live XML-Valid HTML5, 29 October 2010. http://tantek.com/2010/302/b1/xhtml-dead-long-live-xml-valid-html5

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Crockford, Douglas, JSON: The Fat-Free Alternative to XML, XML 2006 Boston, 6 December 2010. http://www.json.org/fatfree.html

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Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) LLC, Common File Format & Media Formats Specification, Version 1.0.6, 23 February 2013. http://www.uvvuwiki.com/images/f/f6/CFFMediaFormat-C1.0.6.pdf

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European Broadcasting Union (EBU), EBU Tech 3264, Specification of the EBU Subtitling data exchange format, February 1991. http://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3264.pdf

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European Broadcasting Union (EBU), EBU Tech 3350, EBU-TT Part 1 Subtitling format definition, Version 1.0, July 2012. http://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3350.pdf?vers=1.0

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Glenn Adams (ed.), Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0, W3C Candidate Recommendation 23 February 2010. http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-ttaf1-dfxp-20100223/

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Glenn Adams (ed.), Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0, W3C Recommendation 18 November 2010. http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-ttaf1-dfxp-20101118/

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Federal Communications Commission, Small Entity Compliance Guide, Closed Captioning of Internet Protocol Delivered Video Programming: Implementation of the Twenty First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, MB Docket No. 11 - 154, FCC 12 - 9. http://www.fcc.gov/document/closed-captioning-internet-protocol-delivered-video-programming-1

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Hickson, Ian, Timed tracks for <video>, Email on the Public mailing list for the WHAT working group, 2010-04-09. http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-July/027386.html

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Hickson, Ian, Pfeiffer, Silvia, WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format, W3C Community Group Draft Report. http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/

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Pfeiffer, Silvia, Conversion of 608/708 captions to WebVTT. Draft Community Group Specification 11 July 2013.https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/text-tracks/raw-file/default/608toVTT/608toVTT.html

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Pfeiffer, Silvia, Introduction of media accessibility features, Email thread started by Silvia Pfeiffer on the Public mailing list for the WHAT working group, 2010-04-09. http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-April/025898.html

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), SMPTE Standard for Television - Timed Text Format (SMPTE-TT), SMPTE ST 2052-1:2010. http://www.smpte.org/sites/default/files/st2052-1-2010.pdf

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Van der Vlist, Eric, Embracing JSON? Of course, but how?, XML Prague 2013, Conference Proceedings, p.163-188. http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2013/files/xmlprague-2013-proceedings.pdf

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Van Kesteren, Anne, XML5's Story, XML Prague 2012, Conference Proceedings, p. 23-25. http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2012/files/xmlprague-2012-proceedings.pdf

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Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), WHAT open mailing list announcement, June 4th 2004. http://www.whatwg.org/news/start

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), DraconianErrorHandling, W3C Wiki, 9 February 2010. http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/index.php?title=DraconianErrorHandling&oldid=1526

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), W3C Timed Text Working Group Charter (TTWG), Initial Vesion. http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/ttcharter20020901.html.

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Standardized Timed-text Format, W3C Working Draft 21 March 2002. http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/timetext.html

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YouView TV Ltd, YouView Core Technical Specification, For Launch, Version 1.0, 14 April 2011. http://industry.youview.com/resources/YouView_Core_Technical_Specification_1.0.pdf