Z39.86 Advisory Committee Face-to-face Meeting Summary: London October
2007
Attendees
Advisory Committee:
- George Kerscher, Advisory Committee Chair – DAISY Consortium
and Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
- Ole Holst Andersen – The Danish National Library for
the Blind
- Thomas Kjellberg Christensen – The Danish National Library
for the Blind
- Marisa DeMeglio – DAISY for All Project
- Boris Goldowsky – CAST
- Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of
Talking Books and Braille
- James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
- Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped
Participating Experts:
- Moira Clunie – Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, Acc
Formats Dev
- Romain Deltour – DAISY Consortium
- Fujimori Hiromitsu - Plextalk
- Kathy Kahl – DAISY Consortium
- Dominic Labbé – HumanWare
- Clive Lansink - Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
- Lynn Leith – DAISY Consortium
- Rob Longstaff – RNIB
- Tatsu Nishizawa - Plextor
- Peter Osborne – RNIB
- Diana Hiorth Persson – Dolphin Computer Access
- Julien Quint – DAISY Consortium
- Daniel Weck – DAISY for All Project
Apologies:
- Linus Ericson – Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
- Neil Soiffer - Design Science
- Neil Bernstein – National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped
Agenda
The agenda for the call was distributed to the Advisory Committee list
on September 28.
Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call
Conference calls are scheduled bi-monthly:
October 24, November 7, Nov 21, Dec 5, Dec 19,
0900 Eastern USA. Lynn collected action items
below. Scribing duties were shared by the group, compiled by Kathy.
3. Z3986 Next Revision (a.k.a Zed Next)
3.1 Review of NISO Process and Status
ACTION Item 1: George & Peter - pull together terms
of reference
& send to WG by end of October.
ACTION Item 2: George & Lynn - notify NISO
formally of the requirements gathering process, send call for
participation to NISO community
by end of November.
ACTION Item 3: George - Schedule next ZED FTF during
week of April 14.
3.2 Overview and Orientation (Markus)
3.3 Requirements (Markus)
ACTION Item 4: Markus, Kathy - database, online Web forms,
submission form, template and examples to be
developed. As soon as possible.
DECISION: Members of this committee will actively approach groups/people
from a variety of needs areas, requesting their input via the Web form/outreach
to specific target groups. Original user requirements will
also be referenced.
3.4 Profiles/Modularization
ACTION ITEM 5: Analysis, caretaking etc of requirements:
MG, KK, Boris, Rob,
Lloyd (ongoing). Note first set of submissions need to be finalized
as soon as possible. .
4.0 Braille in DAISY WG element set
ACTION ITEM 6: Meeting participants to go over braille DTD.
ACTION ITEM 7: RNIB to send its braille DTD to the
BiD list.
ACTION ITEM 8: Moira Cluney - define requirements
for large print.
ACTION ITEM 9: George, Lynn, Peter - put together
reply to BiD WG & send
to them this week.
5.0 SMIL 3 Profile (Marissa)
DECISION: Modsquad/Tech subgroups that will continue actively in upcoming
period. Modsquad members: (those on Zed architecture list minus Romain,
maybe minus LEL)
ACTION ITEM 10: Modsquad WG is charged with continuing
it's work - looking
specifically at light profile.
ACTION ITEM 11: Audio codec strategy team: Lloyd,
Colin Garnham (RNIB),
Dominic, will research codecs and prepare a white paper of options
including Og Vorbis for the Zed Committee. Dominique is the lead.
NOTE: generic extension and fallback algorithm is missing from the
spec. This would be
high priority for ZedNext.
DECISION: we will not move forward with schema in the near future.
ACTION ITEM 12: Overall introduction (Requirements
Gathering document) to be written: MG, GK, LEL, Rob Longstaff
ACTION ITEM 13: Lynn - email lists re DAISY/NISO
requirement submission, link to submission form. Also put item in
news. See long announcement and contact list in 5.0 Detailed Notes.
ACTION ITEM 14: James - send outdated timeline
to GK who will update and distribute to Committee, due October 6.
Venue: London FTF
Scribe: Various, compiled by Kathy Kahl
Last Edited: 2007 October 15
Status: Version 3