Advisory Committee:
Participating Experts:
Apologies: none
The agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee list on 2007 July 31 with one attachment: DAISY/NISO Z3986 Call for Revision Consideration (Attachment 1). There was one addition to the agenda: NISO's Policy for Maintenance Agencies was forwarded to the group just in advance of the call as received from Karen Wetzel (Attachment 2).
The next conference calls will be 2007 August 15, 0900 Eastern USA, and then September 5.
NISO is completely revising its policies and procedures. The biggest problem is that in order to have a standard approved, 10% of the NISO membership must be agree to be involved. It is not clear what is meant by participation; probably not meaning a person involved in the working group, but does mean voting. With approximately 100 mmbers, NLS and DAISY represent 2%.
Karen forwarded the revised NISO Policy and Procedures document (Attachment 2) to George just before the meeting. The group agreed to review this six page document after the meeting. George also attached a Call for Revision Consideration (Attachment 1) which is targeted towards the NISO community and especially their new Content and Collections working group. This working group would help post a call for participation within NISO and help insure that enough organizations within NISO would be involved. With an actual count of 78 members, only 5.8 additional members need to be recruited for participation in the DAISY revision. James suggested that the IDPF might be a good avenue for recruitment.
George noted that he was the only one to submit a substantive comment on the updated NISO policies and procedures. He recommended that NISO have a mechanism to address accessibility concerns within their organization, such as the W3C's WAI group.
Marisa, Dominic, James and Julien met in Princeton on July 19th with the goal of startng the modularization work which was first suggested back in the February Copenhagen F2F meeting. The results of breaking the spec into modules and then combining into profiles, are light weight, medium, and super profiles. Profiles need to define the content format and the navigation profile along with the linking mechanism.
Proposed profiles:
The commitment to upgrade older DAISY books could be done with transformations, that would rearrange the same synchronization and audio data in a different format. Content modules and navigation modules would be combined along with linking mechanisms, plus accessory modules along the side such as bookmarks. Distribution could involve packaging all three profiles and the playback mechanism would choose the appropriate platform.
George expressed concern about starting the requirements gathering process before we have NISO being involved. Another concern is that while the existing user base knows what they have been getting in their DAISY books, new participants will not be completely familiar with the standard, and input would be the same as received before. It seems like identifying the particular organizations that would be willing to commit to getting involved in the revision should be done before the survey. October 1st will be the launch date for the requirements gathering phase and for getting participation from new users. The goal now is to get NISO involved before then.
No new issues have come in.
About 36 papers have been submitted and are in the process of being reviewed. Lynn has been in touch regarding conference arrangements and will forward information.
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 EST
Venue: telcon
Conference Recording Filename: 20070801 (call the DAISY Conference number and enter *3 for playback)
Scribe: Kathy Kahl
Last Edited: 2007 August 14
Status: Version 1 reviewed by GK