DAISY Road Map 2009
Table of Contents
The 2010 Revision: DAISY 4 / DAISY Next
- Separation of Concerns: Authoring and Distribution
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- Distribution: the Universal Design Principle
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- Including new disability groups
- The addition of the video media type has the triple purpose by providing sign language support, better learning environment for visual learners (autism), and providing a path for educational publishers who want to include video in educational materials
- Extended use in educational settings
- Extending the support for "interactivity" features will allow DAISY to be used in contexts such as educational testing, self-learning, and work-books
- Authoring
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A next-generation XML authoring grammar is a part of the revision, building on everything we learned during the years of using DTBook for authoring purposes.
Built around key principles flexibility and adaptability:
- Goes beyond the scope of the book, allows markup of various content types
- Allows various levels of complexity, making it easier to create valid documents while allowing very rich semantics where needed
- Extending support for parallell publishing (DAISY, EBooks, Braille, Largeprint, etc)
EPUB harmonization
Two reasons why EPUB harmonization is vital to us:
- EPUB as an input to DAISY; turning an EPUB into a rich multimedia presentation
- EPUB as an accessible format in itself
The last revision of EPUB added support for DAISY XML and DAISY Navigation.
Continuing the work with the EPUB community to eventually make EPUB our recommended text-only distribution format
The Online Reading Experience
- moving closer to a 7 x24 connected society
- online/offline reading: a user choice
- importance of continued support for offline reading, for developing countries in particular
- DAISY Online delivery specification is being published as a draft for trial use during September
- Discussions on extension to support Service-Service exchange, as part of the Global Library effort
The Global Library and WIPO
- International Copyright Exception efforts
- Cross border sharing
- WIPO, Trusted Intermediaries: establish relationships with publishers
- WIPO, Enabling Technologies: collaboration with publishers, training publishers in providing better files. ONIX wanted by publishers for reporting, Links back to EPUB integration.
- Publisher Licensing and International Copyright Exceptions must coexist
- commitment to business-friendly open source approach
- looking for participation in these projects
- training: tools and processes, extending to both the DAISY community and publishers
- training and support is being done online: forums, webinars, and wikis.
- Not only DAISY Staff provides support, but everybody in the community
Time Line
Draft standards for trial use:
- DAISY Online Delivery: September 2009
- DAISY Revision: Authoring and Interchange: End of 2009/Early 2010
- DAISY Revision: Distribution: June 2010
- EPUB maintenance, harmonization (and future revisions): 2009 - ...