Minutes – Z39.86 Advisory Committee Conference Call

Attendees

Advisory Committee:

• George Kerscher, Advisory Committee Chair – DAISY Consortium and Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Thomas Kjellberg Christensen – Danish Library for the Blind
• Marisa DeMeglio – DAISY for All Project
• Tom McLaughlin – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Michael Moodie – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Ole Holst Andersen – Danish Library for the Blind

Participating Experts:

• Neil Bernstein – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Werner Krebs – Design Science
• Dominic Labbé – VisuAide
• Chris Wilder-Smith – CAST
• Neil Soiffer – Design Science

Apologies:

• James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
• Dave Pawson – Royal National Institute of the Blind

Agenda

The agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee's list on February 1. there were no amendments in advance of the call.

There were no additions to the proposed agenda.

3. Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call

Gk proposed that the next calls be held on February 16, March 2 and April 6 at the same time.

Michael said that he and Tom would have a difficult time making anything more than a once a month call. The group discussed an approach to break the work into projects and have the work distributed in that way. See work plans below for more on this.

Report from NIMAS meeting, and Modular Extension Guidelines discussions at ATIA

George provided a short report from the NIMAS meeting. There is a commitment to support standards harmonization and not go off and do something different. The modular extension guidelines should help this threat to fragmentation. Chris agreed and said that at least in the short term there did not seem to be a willingness to expand, but there is recognition that some more things are wanted.

Manifest restriction

In section 3.3 it now reads, "manifest shall list only files of types permitted by this standard. The manifest shall list only files that are part of the DTB."

Michael said that it was OK to modify language in the standard at this point.

Language was proposed, but in email discussions following the meeting, this issue was discussed. George will put this on for the next call.

error in DTBook DTD

The work with World Cultures and Geography revealed some errors in the simplified content model. for level headings. Michael can revise DTBook DTD to use the previous content model for that portion of the DTD.

API project proposal discussion

The committee briefly reviewed the project proposal to the DAISY Board. Thomas and George will discuss on Monday, because Thomas has some reservations. George will welcome any comments on the proposal.

Work Plans -- areas of focus

There was a substantial discussion of the way to move forward with the work of the committee. What is in scope and out was touched upon briefly. We discussed: communications, ZedVal, DRM, Supporting materials and training, mathematics, and spec maintenance and issues tracking.

George proposed that we break these into distinct project areas with links of communication between the related projects.