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
- Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking
Books and Braille
- Kathy Kahl – DAISY Consortium
- James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Participating Experts:
- Jennifer Sutton – DAISY Consortium
Apologies:
- Ole Holst Andersen – The Danish National Library for the Blind
- Dominic Labbé – HumanWare
- Diana Hiorth Persson – Dolphin
- Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped
Agenda
The call agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee
list on March 18.
A quick addition to the agenda was noted by Jennifer, which is that
in her weekly email to the tech-dev list, she will include a reminder
about a last call for Requirements Gathering.
Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call
The next conference call is 2008 April 2, 1000 EDT (1400 UTC).
The FTF meeting is
scheduled for April 15-17 in Palo Alto.
Update on Errata page
Kathy reported that the Errata
document is
updated
for
review by the Committee.
Action: Kathy to link to Errata document, post
to the tech-dev list, and post as a news item after accepting feedback.
Wiki Discussion
Action: Kathy to set up the
ZedNext
Wiki as open for
viewing but closed to posting only by authenticated users.
Action: Jennifer will post a link on ZedNext that models
and includes recommendations on how the Section 508 wiki was developed.
Agenda for FTF Meeting
The agenda will cover Tuesday through early afternoon Thursday,
since a few people will need to leave by late afternoon Thursday.
Requirements
The meeting should start with a review of the Requirements that would lead
to a formal decision to go forward with a revision to the Standard.
George asked for an estimate on how long it might take to go through the Requirements. The
Requirements could be sorted into high-level buckets before the meeting. They
are currently categorized into about 8 categories. At the meeting they might
be sorted into must have's, nice to have's, etc. Markus does not anticipate
that the Requirements need to be addressed at an atomic level at the meeting.
James suggested that those have worked closely
with the development of the Spec, are probably bringing several assumptions
to the table about areas of change, that may or may not match up with categories
or buckets.
Action: Kathy to output the Requirements to an Excel spreadsheet,
to enable offline review by Committee Members before the meeting.
Action: Jennifer
will document how Requirements relate to one another, and work with Kathy to
post on ZedNextWiki.
Modularization Document
George thought that the Modularization document from Julien might help determine
the 'buckets' for sorting Requirements. Marisa thought that the Modularization
document would probably be at a higher level. Marisa asked if time
would be needed to clarify some of the Requirements. Jennifer gave feedback
that she found most all of the Requirements to be clearly stated.
Our Goals
One goal would be to come up with a plan of action, yet it is impossible
to do so without knowing available resources.
Action: George and Markus will develop a detailed outline
for the 3 days of the FTF before the next call.
Action: Each member should bring to the meeting how much
time they will be able to commit to ZedNext, over the next few years(?).
Action: George
will get in touch with NISO, as well as Microsoft, regarding the possibility
of additional resources.
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 EDT (1400 UTC)
Venue: telcon
Conference Recording Filename: 20080319 (call the DAISY Conference number and enter *3 for playback)
Scribe: Kathy Kahl
Last Edited: 2008 March 24
Status: Version 1, for review