Status of EPUB Dictionaries and Glossaries Spec

[dauwhe]

EPUB Dictionaries and Glossaries is an IDPF Recommended Specification from 2015. What do we know about implementations and use in actual live content?

[GarthConboy]

We do not support, and as far as I know have never seen one in the wild.

[WSchindler]

I think we should preserve the descriptive vocabulary which is very useful for publishers' internal production workflows because it offers a standard way of specialized semantic tagging in the HTML format. Of course, we don't have a direct influence on its implementation by RS developers. So I would not invest time in the further extension of this spec now, but also not drop it forever.

[pgaskin]

I have never seen a reader which implements it or a document which uses it.