aspects already evident
- an end user format and a production model
- XML centrism; parallell publishing: DTB, Braille, Large-print, E-text, standard book...
- access to print source text increasingly critical
- USA: the NIMAS requiring publishers of educational materials to produce and make available DAISY 3 XML content
- open standards; open development
- collaboration with open standards bodies is continuing; open source development continues
- format normalization
- supports, but is not based on a specialized format (vinyl, four track tape, moon, braille), but rather based on a format living at the center of concurrent mainstream technology: XML.
aspects soon evident
- media agnosticism; ability agnosticism
- ability, rather than disability, determines interaction modalities
- media type inclusion selectable by producer
- grammar type adaption by producer
- modalities customizable by user (read-time user adaptation)
- simplicity remains a key concept
- interlending and the global library
- from bilateral to global
- we need refinement of DTB bibliographical metadata