Minutes – Z39.86 Advisory Committee Conference Call

Date: 2008 August 20
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 EDT (1400 UTC)
Venue: telcon
Conference Recording Filename: 20080820 (call the DAISY Conference number and enter *3 for playback)
Scribe: Kathy Kahl
Last Edited: 2008 August 22
Status: Version 1, for review

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
Hiromitsu Fujimori – Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd.
Boris Goldowsky – CAST
Markus Gylling – DAISY Consortium and Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (TPB)
Mats Johnson – Dolphin
Rob Longstaff – Royal National Institute of Blind People
James Pritchett – Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Lloyd Rasmussen – National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Participating Experts:

Kathy Kahl – DAISY Consortium

Apologies:

Marisa DeMeglio – DAISY Consortium
Linus Ericson – Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille (TPB)
Reuben Firmin – Benetech

Agenda

The call agenda was distributed to the Advisory Committee list on August 19 along with a list of new people who have expressed interest. There were no additions to the agenda.

Confirmation of Date and Time for Next Call

The next call is scheduled for August 27 as a introductory call for the new participants. The next regular Advisory Committee call is on September 3, followed by the FTF Meeting on September 16-18 at Google.

NISO Participation

The names of 15 individuals have been received resulting from the NISO Call for Participation. Some have expressed interest in attending the FTF Meeting to help determine their level of participation. Google needs to be informed as soon as possible how many more will be attending to arrange adequate meeting facilities.

Action: Markus will contact other people in the Consortium who were listed for possible participation.

FTF Logistics

Karen reviewed that everyone needed to have made their own hotel reservations, asking for the Google rate. Most on the call have done so. Other hotel options can be discussed on the list. Dinners will be organized on our own but there is no current plan for a hosted dinner. Lunch will be at the Google cafeterias.

Thursday will be a half-day ending at 1:00.

Note for future reference: determine and announce the schedule of last day and other details before travel arrangements are made.

Action: Karen will follow up on how many will be attending the FTF, plus contact the list regarding needs for vegetarian meals, and send directions from the airport to the hotel.

Time Allocation and Areas of Interest

DAISY Consortium:
- Markus: 50% starting in September

Marisa: 40-50% starting in November

RNIB:
- Rob: available for FTF + on-going adhoc basis, specific interest in DTBook format
- Steven's time: needs to know details of planning for determining when and how long to commit
NLS:
- Lloyd: 2 hours per week, packaging, distribution, light-weight profile
- another individual - contribution to be determined
Boris (CAST): 6 hours per week (15%), DTBook + RDF
Hiro (Shinano Kenshi): 4 hours per week including teleconferences, plus a colleagues time to help with development, still considering which particular area of interest
James (RFB&D): not yet clear on time commitment, can contribute where necessary
Mats (Dolphin): not much time until next year, interest is in area of distribution and content development
Reuben & John (Bookshare): indicated by email that they would participate, no details known
Linus (TPB): available on ad hoc basis, probably on DTBook

Markus noted that more specifics of planning will be determined at the FTF Meeting.

Action: Kenny and Ole each need to send a statement of their contribution of time and areas of interest.

Online Delivery Specification

Action: Kenny, Neil, and Markus will to provide an overview on the DAISY Online Delivery spec at the next meeting.

This is carried over to the agenda for the next call on September 3.