Minutes – Z39.86 Advisory Committee Conference Call

Date: 2005 July 06
Time: 9:00 – 10:10 EST
Venue: telecom
Scribe: Laurie Sherve
Last Edited: 2005 July 06
Status: Version 1

Attendees

Advisory Committee:

George Kerscher, Advisory Committee Chair – DAISY Consortium and Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Neil Bernstein – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Marisa DeMeglio – DAISY for All Project
James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Ole Holst Andersen – Danish Library for the Blind
Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
Laurie Sherve, Scribe – DAISY Consortium

Participating Experts:

Werner Krebs – Design Science
Chris Wilder-Smith – CAST

Apologies:

Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Thomas Kjellberg Christensen – Danish Library for the Blind
Dave Pawson – Royal National Institute of the Blind
Dominic Labbé – VisuAide
Neil Soiffer – Design Science

Agenda

The agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee's list on 2005 July 01. 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 2005 August 03.

Error in DTBook

Markus, James and George discussed if "imggroup" could exist as a block and inline element at the same time in dtbook2005-1.dtd. Although imggroup is listed in the block list, it allowed under "special" inline text elements.

A heading such as h2 contains context text and formatting only, and doesn't expect structural elements. xslt did not expect imggroup inside a heading. However, it is possible to have an image in the middle of a heading. George wondered if we allowed inline images for presentations, perhaps in math or science.

Since both block and inline are inherited from xhtml, it was decided not to rush into changing the status of imggroup. Until we re-write the grammar, we will not change the DTD's, but rely on training and good practice for the proper implementation of imggroup,

xmlspace attribute for div

ACTION: Markus will add xmlspace to attlist for div.

xmlspace will be added as an attribute for div. White space would not be preserved. The change is an error correction and will be noted in the errata.

Spec status

ACTION: Markus to test DTD's with a limited amount of content by Friday, July 8.

ACTION: Ole to test DTD's with extended content and existing material by Friday, July 8.

ACTION: Markus will add DTD's and appendices to specification and refresh the site.

ACTION: George to provide Pat Harris with the published version of the spec on Friday. He will ask NISO to refresh their .pdf file and alert them to problems with their html version.

ACTION: George to check with NISO on adding announcement of 2005 spec to their newsletter.

ACTION: Markus will send site passwords to Laurie and George

NISO is waiting for us to give them the spec, but it is already posted on the NISO site. It appears that the NISO site has some problems with the html spec, it may be viewed with IE, but not Firefox.

The communications channel with NISO was turned over from Neil to George.

Markus and Ole to test DTD's prior to release of spec. This is especially important as we are asking Microsoft and Adobe to include DAISY files in "Save As".

DAISY will not adverstise the site.

Communications Group

Neil volunteered to be a member of the communications team.

Items on agenda, but not covered


Communications

   - Co-branding with NISO (What do we call the spec?)
   - Web site structure
   - Press release re: new maintenance agency
   - Announcement to membership
   - Providing a Road Map to our Members