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
• Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
• Kenny Johar – Vision Australia
• Kathy Kahl – DAISY Consortium
• Dominic Labbé – HumanWare
• Rob Longstaff – Royal National Institute of Blind People
• Diana Hiorth Persson –Dolphin
• James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic

• Lynn Leith – DAISY Consortium
• Jennifer Sutton – DAISY Consortium

Apologies:

• Boris Goldowsky – Center for Applied Special Technology

Agenda

The agenda for the call was distributed to the Advisory Committee list on January 23. There was one addition to the agenda to talk about the Requirements Gathering.

Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call

The next conference call is 2008 February 6, 0900 Eastern USA. Calls following this are scheduled for Feb 20, Mar 5, Mar 19, and April 2.

FTF Meeting

Benetech will host the meeting in the San Francisco area (Palo Alto), tentatively scheduled for Tues-Thursday, April 15-17. George will confirm by email to the list.

Review of Advisory Committee Area: Composition, Affiliations, Terms of Reference

George asked if there were any questions about the updates to the Web page for the Advisory Committee. If any updates are needed, they should be sent to Kathy.

DTD finalization

dtbook-2005-3 has been posted on the DAISY Web site at http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/. Kathy and Boris reconfirmed that the DTD testing did not reveal any problems. Markus asked if there were any other changes that were not backward compatible. James reviewed what was changed. The upwards migration path is simply to change the doctype and the version attribute to the new DTD.

Other issues and errata discussion

#193: regarding default values of attribute fixed values
Change to "resolved as a future direction"; this may be a moot issue if move away from DTDs. We have a great deal of confidence that this will be resolved in the next release of the Standard.

#143: Flow - DTD change not described in spec James will get a revised version of the spec language.

#198: SMIL modules - see Issue description itself to redo errata work up for Section 7.1.

Requirements Gathering

George reported that he has posted several announcements but not complete. A suggestion to send to our lists and have a weekly countdown: 75 days left, etc, and also make sure that the RG is announced in each issue of the DAISY Planet.

Jennifer helped to compile a list for Committee Members to assist with contacting specific individuals and organizations. Please look for your name in the list below and follow-up:

• Peter: Publishers Industry Action Group (UK-only)
• George: NSET (center for supported e-text), IDPF, Google Books, WGBH, Project DOIT, Don Johnston, Read How you Want, DTBTalk, Contact at Audio Publishers, Hiroshi's contacts: UN, etc
• Neil: NLS Pilot list, if appropriate
• James: RFB&D newsletter?
• Boris: CAST, Richard Jackson
• Moira: Round Table, Achieve, New Zealand Dyslexic Assoc.
• Daniel: contact Jennifer re follow up on contacts sent in email on the Z mailing list
• Lloyd: Deaf blindness Consortium
• Thomas: Danish Disability Council and Danish Disability Organization
• Lynn: Canadian DAISY Consortium, Jutta University of Toronto, Marie France Laughton, directly encourage Member and Friend orgs to circulate in their communications to their end-users
• Markus: Swedish Dyslexia Association
• Julien: Jennifer will contact to ask him to look at the requirements related to i18n
• Diana: coordinate and submit requirements from within Dolphin
• Dominic: coordinate and submit requirements from HumanWare
• Jennifer: Josh Miele, DigilifeMedia (Dan Berkowitz), Altmedia list (Gaeir), VICUG-L list, Pratik Patel, Patrick Burke at UCLA, Sam Ogami, Bob Stepp (Braille 2000), Marc Mulcahy at Levelstar, Robert (linguistics friend), Guido at IBM, E-Access Bulletin based in the UK, http://feeds.feedburner.com/FredsHeadCompanion, Greg K. re 2 blind Mac users lists, also contact in Australia, Janina/Jason to circulate to Linux-types, Dean Martineau who does Top Tech Tidbits
• Other considerations:
  • review CAST resource pages to see which ones may be appropriate to contact: http://nimas.cast.org/about/resources/
  • post on the NIMAS-related lists, i.e. both Maintenance and IG?
  • W3C SMIL people, specifically, to comment to promote standards harmonization?
  • SVG people, also?