Minutes – Z39.86 Advisory Committee Conference Call

Attendees

Advisory Committee:

• George Kerscher, Advisory Committee Chair – DAISY Consortium and Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• 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 – Center for Applied Special Technology
• Kenny Johar – Vision Australia
• Kathy Kahl – DAISY Consortium
• Dominic Labbé – HumanWare
• James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

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

Apologies:

• Ole Holst Andersen – The Danish National Library for the Blind
• Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
• Rob Longstaff – Royal National Institute of Blind People
• Diana Hiorth Persson –Dolphin

Agenda

The call agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee list on February 19. There were no additions to the agenda.

Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call

The next conference call is 2008 March 5, 0900 Eastern USA. Calls following this are scheduled for March 19, and April 2.

FTF Meeting

Everyone needs to make their own reservations regarding the group of rooms booked under "Zed Meeting" for April 15-17 . There has been some talk of a DAISY Online meeting adjacent to this (at least 7 people overlap), but the assumption is that this will not happen unless decided very soon. It will be brought up on the technical call tomorrow.

DTD Finalization

The dtbook-dtd-3 validates and is included in the WCAG sample book. The Errata document and Issues will be cleaned up by early next week. There is a piece in the DAISY Planet newsletter going out this week about the DTD.

Structure Guidelines

The MathML group will review and post updates regarding their section by the end of March. Valerie from CAST had submitted suggestions, one of which was for changes to the index markup examples.

Requirements Gathering

Jennifer announced that most everyone has been contacted and that we have done a good job of making ourselves visible. Jennifer will follow up with Martin McKay to post a requirement.

Mod Squad Schedule

Julien's white paper regarding modularization will be delivered to the group by late March.

IDPF Meeting

George reported from a meeting with the IDPF, that regarding the NISO standards arena, there is more interest by tech companies in keeping activity within the IDPF.

Wikis/Forums