Hi, My goal is to create a converter for EdSharp so that you can enter a form of MarkDown and get a compliant DAISY file. I was looking for some sort of stable standard to base my program on. That's pretty much it. Jim Jim Homme, Usability Services, Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme Internal recipients, Read my accessibility blog. Discuss accessibility here. Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rasmussen, Lloyd Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 9:39 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Updates to EdSharp I have served on the maintenance committees for the ANSI/NISO versions of the standard, but am not actively involved at the moment. The next version of Z39.86 has been divided into two parts. Part B, for distribution, will almost certainly be an accessible version of the EPub standard which is now being revised. The Daisy Consortium is the maintenance agency for EPub now, so it has a lot of input into the next version of that standard, which is managed by the International Digital Publishing Forum. The fact that the new standard is based on EPUB means that a book or magazine will be in a single file, compressed and archived using a subset of the ZIP format. I wouldn't expect to see this revision adopted for at least another 12 months, and agencies such as NLS and BookShare may or may not switch to it quickly. For non-technical explanations of what is going on, and links to more tools and projects, go to www.daisy.org and start reading issues of the Daisy Planet monthly newsletter. Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress 202-707-0535 http://www.loc.gov/nls The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 9:06 AM To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Ken Perry Subject: Re: Updates to EdSharp One thing I find annoying about Daisy format is that each book essentially has to be in its own directory because it includes several files that work together. I understand how individual files are needed as components in building a book, but do not understand why the format is not defined so that the components are packaged as a single, combined file, possibly in a compressed form. A Daisy reader should be able to dynamically parse out the needed components at runtime in memory. Instead, a Daisy book tends to be an intimidating and messy smattering of files on disk. Does anyone know whether there are plans to change this situation? Jamal On 1/7/2011 8:48 AM, Ken Perry wrote: > I have an adjoining desk with Keith Cresey who is on the Daisy > steering committee, he wrote Book wizard producer that is used to > record many of the APH daisy titles, and I am becoming an experienced > daisy coder with the work I have done on a few of our projects here at > APH for both RFBD and Bookshare. Bookshare has serious issues. > Sometimes they might validate but the chances are they will not. As > for RFBD there is no Schemas that I know of for Daisy 2 which is what > RFBD uses. We pretty much have to make parsers for each group of > daisy types. The problem is the daisy committee tried to do too much > which made the standard to loose and these producers do whatever the heck > they want. > > Ken > > Bookshare is about 90 % > > -----Original Message----- > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, > James > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:38 AM > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: FW: Updates to EdSharp > > Hi, > Do we have a DAISY expert here? > > Thanks. > > Jim > > Hi Jim, > I assume that Daisy books from BookShare validate against the Daisy > XML schema, but I do not know what their quality is beyond that. > Perhaps Lloyd Rasmussen on this list (a Daisy expert) may have more > information. > I'm also curious about the same questions for Daisy books from > RFB&D and NLS. > > Jamal > > > On 1/7/2011 8:04 AM, Homme, James wrote: >> Hi Jamal, >> Thanks. I hadn't gotten that far in my testing. >> >> Question for you. As I am planning for my Python MarkDown program, I > thought of something. Maybe it would be a good idea to make it produce > DAISY files. I was looking at some files from BookShare. Do you know > if they are standard DAISY or not? >> >> Jim >> Jim Homme, >> Usability Services, >> Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme Internal recipients, Read my >> accessibility blog. Discuss accessibility > here. Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. 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