[bksvol-discuss] Re: NIMAC books
- From: "liz halperin" <lizzersagain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:12:29 -0800
Makes me think of videos and Tv programs being closed captioned. But it has
taken major politics and many years and frequent re-politicking to make this
continue. Am running across some great documentary DVDs by a group called
DocuDrama and they don't caption many of theirs. Huh, for once us Deafies
are ahead of us Blindies!
Liz, some of each, why have to choose?
Liz Halperin
Portland, OR
lizzersagain@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: NIMAC books
Thanks for the explanation, Jim. It's wonderful that
all K-12 publishers have to make their textbooks
available.
Now if the publishers of non-textbook required reading
books were also required to do so, ...
G.Cindy
--- Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> NIMAS is a format: the National Instructional
> Materials Accessibility
> Standard. NIMAS is a flavor of the DAISY standard
> that specifies a
> minimum level of DAISY tags, more than you'd get if
> you just scanned the
> book.
>
> NIMAC is a place: the National Instructional
> Materials Accessibility
> Center. It's located at the American Printing House
> for the Blind, as a
> project funded directly by Congress in the 2004
> Individuals with
> Disability Education Act.
>
> K-12 publishers are required to put all textbooks
> into the NIMAS format
> and deposit them in the NIMAC. We get them from the
> NIMAC, convert them
> into student-ready DAISY, and add them to our
> collections with strings
> attached that come from APH's policies. Part of
> these strings come from
> the terms of the law, some come because publishers
> have put pressure to
> limit the scope of this, and some have come because
> of APH's comfort
> level as the group in charge of the NIMAC.
>
> It's permitted to scan these same books, proofread
> them, and add them to
> the Bookshare.org collection without these
> particular strings attached.
> Of course, all of our books have some kinds of
> restrictions: for
> example, our Canadian users can only download books
> that we have
> permissions to provide internationally (or public
> domain).
>
> Our goal is to minimize these restrictions at every
> opportunity.
> Textbooks are too important for print disabled
> students to have to not
> implement the NIMAC-developed restrictions. Many
> K-12 textbooks are a
> bear to scan, and it's great that the publishers
> (who have the easiest
> access to digital versions of their content) are
> responsible for
> delivering it.
>
> Jim Fruchterman
>
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