Minutes – Z39.86 Advisory Committee Conference Call

Attendees

Advisory Committee:

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

Participating Experts:

• Linus Ericson – Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
• Kathy Kahl, Scribe – DAISY Consortium
• Dominic Labbé – HumanWare

Apologies:

• Neil Bernstein – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Diana Hiorth Persson – Dolphin

Agenda

• Apologies to the committee from George regarding late distribution of the agenda. Mail sent by George with a draft of the FTF agenda was not available by the time of the call due to problems with Lyris apparently since 2006 December 29.

Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call

There will be no call in February due to the scheduled FTF meeting in Copenhagen February 07-09. The next conference call is tentatively scheduled for 2007 March 07.

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Issues Update

Issue 193 involves not handling #IMPLIED attributes with default values in Section 16.1, which does say "all attributes declared as #FIXED in the respective DTD are required to be explicitly specified in the document instance". This appears to be an oversight and needs clarification with the goal of future proofing the spec. Before recommending any change in wording or other solution, a full census of attributes with default values should be done. So far, the list of element attributes with default values should include: the anchor element external attribute (default false), the xml:space attribute on code and samp elements, the page attribute on element pagenum (default normal), and all table element attributes for th, td, such as colspan (default 1), and rowspan (default 1), not just for an entire table but for each table cell. The DTD team needs to consider if this issue resolution is appropriate to a 2005 or future revision.

Issue 194 involves the dtbookblock entity never being used; resolution should be straightforward.

Issue 195 involves expanding the title element content model beyond PCDATA; note very different usage from the HTML title element in head.

F2F Meeting Agenda

Issues discussed for the F2F agenda follow:

• Markus suggested starting a roadmap of how to progress to the next spec version, what forums should we participate in, etc, the tech-dev list is not all that is needed, want to but not sure how to solicit participation from multiple disability communities. The requirements discussion needs to start with input regarding end user functionality. This is to be started at the F2F, goal is to have ready for the Technical Conference in September.
• James would like reasons listed for going to next spec to justify and guide work flow.
• The list of required reading to do prior to the FTF should include Marisa's SMIL document, sent out on 2006 December 20.
• It may be helpful to also review the revised DAISY OK Certification process which so far has been a very separate discussion from the spec.
• Markus and George agreed that a short presentation is needed regarding IDPF.
• James will do a presentation on the CEA audio spec.
• A short discussion is also planned on the different approaches to book production.
• There is an "Analysis" portion on the agenda, but does need to be structured discussion.
• Markus suggested building a map of the user landscape, including significance of each target user group.
• George suggested analyzing what the "information getting" holes are for information gatherers and how DAISY can help fill these gaps.
• Lloyd expressed interest in being able to Skype into portions of the F2F conference. George suggested that Skype participants may need to accept having relatively lower priority in influencing discussion since they may have missed content derived from live participation. Lloyd agreed and all thought it is a good idea to enable remote participation for various sessions in order to include those who are not able to attend in person.

Along with the call agenda that was undeliverable, George had attached a rough draft of the F2F agenda which will be updated after this call.