Minutes – Z39.86 Advisory Committee Conference Call

Attendees

Advisory Committee:

• George Kerscher, Advisory Committee Chair – DAISY Consortium and Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• 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
• James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Ole Holst Andersen – Danish Library for the Blind
• Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
• Dave Pawson – Royal National Institute of the Blind

Participating Experts:

• Neil Bernstein – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Dominic Labbé – VisuAide
• Neil Soiffer – Design Science

Apologies:

• Thomas Kjellberg Christensen – Danish Library for the Blind
• Chris Wilder-Smith – CAST
• Werner Krebs – Design Science

Agenda

The agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee's list on Tuesday March 15, 2005 . 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 call be held on April 6 at 10:00 Eastern USA time.

NLS Adoption of the 2002 version of the DAISY/NISO Standard

Michael provided an update to the Advisory Committee about decisions within NLS on their implementation of the standard. The following points were made:

1. NLS will implement ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2002. At this time, they have no plans to move to the 2005 version of the standard.
2. Effective immediately, Michael Moodie has stepped off the committee. Neal Bernstein will be the NLS replacement to Michael and will assume the responsibilities of the rotating chair. George Kerscher is the current chair and holds this position until September 2006.
3. NISO has had discussions with NLS and are considering replacing NLS as the Maintenance Agency for the Standard. No decision has been made and this is an open issue.
4. NISO and NLS have discussed maintaining the NISO 2002 version as an active standard. Currently this is under consideration.

ZedVal Maintenance

There was a discussion about the impact this may have on ZedVal. There was general agreement that we would work to ensure that there was no forking of ZedVal functionality. we explicitly don't want to fork the ZedVal code. We want to maintain a single code base for the ZedVal engine.