Minutes – Z39.86 Advisory Committee Conference Call
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
- Neil Bernstein – National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped
- Marisa DeMeglio – DAISY for All Project
- Linus Ericson – Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
- Boris Goldowsky – CAST
- Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of
Talking Books and Braille
- Rob. Longstaff – Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB)
- James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Participating Experts:
- Kathy Kahl, Scribe – DAISY Consortium
- Dominic Labbé – HumanWare
- Lynn Leith – DAISY Consortium
- Laurie Sherve – DAISY Consortium
Apologies:
- Thomas Kjellberg Christensen – The Danish National Library for the
Blind
- Diana Hiorth Persson – Dolphin
Agenda
The agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee list on 2007 May 21
with two attachments to the agenda in advance of the call.
Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call
The next conference call is 2007 June 13, 0900
Eastern USA and then June 27, no calls in July.
Identifying the Sub-divisions of Work
George proposed that a single lead person be identified to manage or at
least report on each of the
various areas below in order to plan and finish what is needed
by the October 1 & 2 F2F and the DAISY Technical Conference/TechShare
October 4 &
5.
NISO
(Lead person: George)
ACTION: George - prepare high level project plan for
May 23rd meeting, outlining milestones through October.
ACTION: George - Administrative tasks to be done by end
of June:
- Terms of Reference for the working group
- A memorandum of understanding between NISO and DAISY regarding the
maintenance agency agreement
- Harmony on IP policy and working group procedures between NISO and
DAISY
- Common understanding regarding revision of the spec and modularization
The niso-communications
list has been created which includes Pete, George, Kathy and Lynn.
Communications
(Lead person: Lynn)
ACTION: Lynn - prepare high level project plan for
June 27th meeting, outlining milestones through October.
The niso-communications group will develop
a work plan to cover issues such as overarching
plans,
budget items, communication and messaging with NISO.
Maintenance & Issues Tracking
(Lead person: Kathy)
Laurie will outline what is to be done with respect to DTD issues.
Architecture of Modular Specification Development
(Lead person: Marisa)
ACTION: Marisa - prepare high level project plan for
May 23rd meeting, outlining milestones through October, incorporating architectural
goals set at the Copenhagen meeting.
The zed-architecture
list has been created which includes Dominic, George, James, Marisa, Markus,
Ole, Romain, Julien, plus Lynn. Neil and Lloyd are interested in participating
in the audio portion. Marisa will chair starting mid-May and confer with Markus.
How to Proceed with Requirements Gathering
(Lead person: Rob)
ACTION: Rob - prepare high level project plan for May
23rd meeting, outlining milestones through October.
ACTION: George and Markus to send draft of updated Roadmap
document to Zed WG by June 13th meeting, for final approval by June 27th meeting.
ACTION: Rob - develop survey questions in coordination with
Roadmap document.
George suggested that we need a unified message and can use web-based survey
tools to gather input, pertaining to the agenda question: "What
are the requirements for the next generation of DAISY/NISO for the LD,
cognitive impaired, dyslexic, etc.?" Kathy suggested
that the Road
Map to Implementation of DAISY document, linked to from http://www.daisy.org/z3986/,
be updated and used as the official unified message in conjunction with a
survey. Survey results would lead to the next revision of the Roadmap,
possibly at the next FTF. The detailed plan for profiling should be part of the
focus of the updated Roadmap announcement and used as a basis for building survey
questions.
ACTION ITEMS carried over from February FTF:
- Marisa and Julian - Contact AIST, NRCD to find out their requirements
- George - Contact LDI in Philadelphia to find out their requirements
- Dominic - Contact Brenda (Humanware) to find out requirements
- Boris - Find out what research organisations in US that can be of help.
- George - Contact the organisations found by Boris
- Markus - Contact research organisations in Sweden
- Peter - Ask someone at RNIB to find out what organisations in UK that
could
be of interest (Question was raised whether Kevin Kerry is doing requirements
gathering for online delivery?)
Outreach to organizations regarding participation on different profiles
(Lead
person: George)
ACTION: George to outline a plan for contacting these
organizations.
Again the Roadmap document can be the vehicle to deliver the unified message
to help achieve this outreach. The goal here is to contact organizations
personally to solicit participation with commercial efforts in the actual
development, from the perspective of either submitting requirements or
joining in on the actual work. These companies would have questions and
expertise from the technology and implementation perspective.
ACTION ITEMS carried over from February FTF (regrouped by profile):
- Audio profile
- Peter - Contact AES
- George - Contact Audible, Apple/IPod, APA, CEA
- Featherweight audio publication profile
- Julian - Contact Vodaphone
- E-text profile
- George - Contact Bookshare, IDPF, Docbook, Google + competitors,
Gutenberg, ODF, Safari,
Microsoft, Adobe
- Video profile
- George - Contact WGBH
- Julian - Contact Hiroshi
How do we approach these organisations in a way so that they can
give us the
information
we need?
- Find the right person within the organisations
- Interview rather than sending an email
- Ask specific questions like:
- How should the book look?
- How should it work?
- How do you want to interact with it?
- How can DAISY help?
- Show with sample content
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 EST
Venue: telcon
Conference Recording Filename: 20070523 (call the DAISY Conference number and enter *3 for playback)
Scribe: Kathy Kahl
Last Edited: 2007 May 23
Status: Version 1 reviewed by GK