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 Consortium
• Reuben Firmin – Benetech
• Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (TPB)
• Dominic Labbé – HumanWare
• Diana Hiorth Persson/Mats Johnson – Dolphin
• James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Linus Ericson – Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (TPB)

• John Brugge – Benetech
• Kathy Kahl – DAISY Consortium

Apologies:

• Boris Goldowsky – CAST
• per George, due to DAISY Online meeting:
  • Rob Longstaff – Royal National Institute of Blind People
  • Kenny Johar – Vision Australia
  • Hiromitsu Fujimori – Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd.

Agenda

The call agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee list on June 17 with one attachment, being Hiro's resume. There were no additions ot the agenda.

Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call

The next call is scheduled for July 2. Calls will continue every 2 weeks through the summer up until the FTF Meeting: July 16, August 6, August 20, and September 3. George relayed that there is a DAISY Online meeting going on currently which means that Kenny, Rob and Hiro not joining this meeting today.

Advisory Committee Composition

At the recent Board meeting, the DAISY Board reviewed the composition of this committee, and noted no representation from Asia. With the upcoming work on the double-byte characters, Hiroshi recommended Hiromitsu Fujimori, Assistant Manager Engineering, Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd., email: fujimori (at) @skcj.co.jp. Since we are currently at the limit of 15 voting committee members, one person must move to participating expert status. Kathy will move since the committee is heavy with representation by DAISY people. Diana will be on maternity leave until next summer and requests to be off of the mailing list; Mats Johnson will replace her until then as the voting member from Dolphin and on the mailing list.

NISO Update

Karen Wetzel sent an email which George had forwarded to the committee. July 14 will be the last review and vote on the proposal. Once that is approved, NISO can put forward a recommendation to the membership. They are looking for at least 10% of the entire NISO membership to be interested in our proceeding. It's a 30-day vote so we should have word by August 15.

Next Face to Face Meeting

The FTF meeting is set for September 16-18. Neil B. and Linus do not know yet whether they can attend.

Issues Tracking

Issue #221:

The issue is that empty levels do not validate. Ole is recommending that this issue be dismissed and a blank paragraph be inserted; Markus believes that the fix to the Pipeline already does this. This came out of generating indices by formatting index entries as headings. This issue should be linked to the existing requirement regarding indices.

Issue #222:

Are Arabic numerals allowed in page nums? (submitted by Romain)
James clarified that the issue is whether page front can be an arabic number. James questioned whether the type attribute is truly needed. There was a full discussion and it was agreed that clarifying issues regarding page numbers is needed for the current spec and should be revisited as a future requirement; this may include issues regarding line numbers.