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
• Thomas Kjellberg Christensen – The Danish National Library for the Blind
• Linus Ericson – Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
• Boris Goldowsky – CAST
• Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille
• Kathy Kahl – DAISY Consortium
• Dominic Labbé – HumanWare
• Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

• Jennifer Sutton – DAISY Consortium

Apologies:

• Marisa DeMeglio – DAISY for All Project
• Kenny Johar – Vision Australia
• Diana Hiorth Persson – Dolphin

Agenda

The call agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee list on April 1 with the agenda for the FTF Meeting as an attachment. There were no additions to the call agenda.

Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call

The FTF meeting is scheduled for April 15-17 in Palo Alto. The date of the next call was not discussed.

Update on Requirements Gathering

Jennifer has reviewed all of the Requirements and completed preliminary categorization and analysis. As of April 1, submission of requirements through the Web site (http://www.daisy.org/z3986/requirements/) was officially shut down, but that status is still open for posting comments. This was subject to discussion. It was decided to accept more Requirements, but the Committee will not be bound to consider them. They could be added to the Wiki or the database noting somehow that they are late submissions.

There was discussion regarding whether the forum for ZedNext (http://forums.daisy.org/) is needed. It is open for the world to create a login, post questions or replies, and to subscribe to different threads or entire forums. The ZedNext Wiki is set up for open viewing of all content, but closed for posting only by members on the Z3986 list. The decision is to keep the ZedNext forum.

Agenda for FTF Meeting

The agenda for the FTF was sent by George as an attachment to this meeting's agenda. There were no modications to the agenda. It will be posted on ZedNext Wiki. At the FTF, different committee members will be asked to scribe and then post their segment of the minutes directly to the Wiki. Homework for FTF attendees is to read all of the Requirements and be able to contribute to the Wiki.

Output of the FTF should be a work plan; this plan, however, is completely subject to availability of resources.