[dfaresource] FW: Official First Release of the DAISY Pipeline
- From: "Dipendra Manocha" <dipendra.manocha@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dfop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <daisyforumofindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <dfaresource@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:17:14 +0530
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From: Lynn Leith [mailto:lynn.leith@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 July 2007 05:18
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Subject: Official First Release of the DAISY Pipeline
Dear DAISY Members, Friends and Supporters,
We are pleased to announce the First Official Release of the DAISY Pipeline.
DAISY production is being implemented in more organizations and companies
around the world at an ever increasing rate, and the DAISY Standard
continues to evolve. To meet the resulting production and conversion
demands, the DAISY Consortium has hosted the development of the DAISY
Pipeline, a suite of tools designed and planned to meet these needs, to
support both DAISY production and distribution.
The first official release of the DAISY Pipeline is now available for
download at the SourceForge site [1]. A link to the download at SourceForge
is also provided on the DAISY Web site [2].
Before installing the Pipeline, please ensure that you read the online
installation instructions at:
http://daisymfc.sourceforge.net/doc/enduser/installation.html. Prior to
installing, you will need to have the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version
5 or later installed on your system (details are provided in the
installation instructions). It is also recommended that you read the online
User Guide [3].
The primary goal of the Pipeline Project is to meet the varied and
increasing production needs of the DAISY community by providing a
cross-platform, customizable and extensible framework for document- and
DTB-related transformations. However, its use is not restricted to the DAISY
membership. There is no charge for the Pipeline - it is available under
LGPL, the GNU Lesser General Public License, to any organization, commercial
company or individual. The current release of the Pipeline is targeted
primarily to production environments rather than as a 'personal use' tool.
The DAISY Pipeline supports the migration of digital content to various
formats efficiently and economically, facilitating both production and
distribution of DAISY DTBs. Transformations may be batched, enabling the
transformation of multiple files or file sets at one time. The DAISY
Pipeline can be used both as a stand-alone desktop application, and as an
embedded component in larger applications or Web services.
Additional information about the DAISY Pipeline and its development is
available on the SourceForge Web site at [4] and on the DAISY Web site at
[5]. In the Script Documentation section of the SourceForge Web site [6] you
can also read about the functionality that is included in this release of
the Pipeline.
The DAISY Pipeline is intended to reduce duplication of effort and ensure
sharing of the workload and expertise to further the adoption of the DAISY
standards globally. It is an open source collaborative software development
project hosted by the DAISY Consortium. Much functionality is still needed.
If you would like to join the DAISY open source community and contribute to
the development of the Pipeline, please contact Markus Gylling, DAISY
International Technical Development Coordinator, using the Contact Us Form
[7] located on the DAISY Web site. Please select the "Project DAISY
Pipeline" Category.
At the time of this Release there is a known issue with accessing the
documentation with screen readers. Those who are using Window Eyes and JAWS
should use F6 and then Tab to move from the heading links into the browser
body for the document content. This will be corrected so that F6 will take
the user directly into the browser.
Users of the DAISY Pipeline are also encouraged to contribute by providing
feature requests and bug reports through the respective trackers at the
SourceForge project site [8].
The DAISY Consortium would like to thank everyone who has participated in
the development to date (in alphabetical order): Martin Blomberg, Romain
Deltour, Guillaume Du Bourguet, Linus Ericson, Markus Gylling, Joel
Håkansson, Piotr Kiernicki, Brandon Nelson, Dave Pawson, Laurie Sherve.
Thanks also to Kathy Kahl for creating the Pipeline logo.
[1]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162777&package_id=2332
83&release_id=519655
[2] http://www.daisy.org/tools/tools.asp?Cat=conversion#86
[3] http://daisymfc.sourceforge.net/doc/enduser/01-gui-user-guide.html
[4] http://daisymfc.sourceforge.net
[5] http://www.daisy.org/projects/pipeline/
[6] http://daisymfc.sourceforge.net/doc/index-enduser.html#scripts
[7] http://www.daisy.org/support/contactus.asp
[8] http://daisymfc.sourceforge.net/#trackers
Kind regards to all,
Lynn
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Lynn Leith,
Head of Information Services and Administrative Support, DAISY Consortium,
lynn.leith@xxxxxxxxx, 905,304-9398, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
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