Structure Guidelines
for DAISY 3, officially, the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Specifications for the Digital Talking Book

Last Revised: June 4, 2008

Expanded Table Of Contents

Statement of Principles for the Creation and Production of Accessible Books and Materials

Preface

• The Advantages of Digital Information Technology
• Standards
• The DAISY DTB
• Terminology

Foreword – NIMAS Considerations

Part I: Introduction to Structured Markup

• The DAISY Digital Talking Book
• DTBook DTD
• The NCX
• Why Mark Up?
• Markup Tags
• Attributes
• Required Tags
• Link
• Meta
• Front Matter, Body Matter, and Rear Matter
  • Front Matter
  • Body Matter
  • Rear Matter
• Structure and Hierarchy
  • Levels
  • Nesting
• Navigation and hierarchy
• Sequential Structure
• Page Identification
  • General instructions
  • Books containing blank pages
• Producer's Notes

Part II(a): Major Structural Elements

• Levels
• Divisions
• Information Object: Front Matter
• Information Object: Doctitle
• Information Object: Covertitle
• Information Object: Docauthor
• Information Object: Title Page
• Information Object: Acknowledgments
• Information Object: Dedication
• Information Object: Preface
• Information Object: Table of Contents
• Information Object: Body Matter
• Information Object: Part
• Information Object: Chapter
• Information Object: Section, Subsection, and Lower Levels of the Hierarchy
• Information Object: Rear Matter
• Information Object: Appendix
• Information Object: Glossary
• Information Object: Bibliography
• Information Object: Index
• Alternative Markup of Levels

Part II(b): Block Elements

• Information Object: Address
• Information Object: Author
• Information Object: Bridgehead
• Information Object: Byline
• Information Object: Computer Code
• Information Object: Dateline
• Information Object: Epigraph
• Information Object: Keyboard Input
• Information Object: Linegroup
• Information Object: Lists
• Information Object: Note (Footnote, Endnote, Annotation and Rear-Note)
• Information Object: Paragraph
• Information Object: Producer's Note
• Information Object: Quotation
• Information Object: Sample
• Information Object: Notice
• Information Object: Sidebar

Part II(c): Inline Elements

• Information Object: Anchor
• Information Object: Abbreviation
• Information Object: Acronym
• Information Object: bdo
• Information Object: Computer Code
• Information Object: Defining Instance
• Information Object: Emphasis
• Information Object: Horizontal Rule
• Information Object: Keyboard Input
• Information Object: Line Break
• Information Object: Line Number
• Information Object: Page Number
• Information Object: Producer's Note
• Information Object: Quotation
• Information Object: Sample
• Information Object: Sentence
• Information Object: Span
• Information Object: Strong Emphasis
• Information Object: Subscript and Superscript
• Information Object: Word

Part II(d): Tables

• Information Object: Tables

Part II(e): Images

• Information Object: Images

Part II(f): Poetry

• Information Object: Poem

Part II(g): Mathematics

• Information Object: Math

Index of Elements

Appendix 1: Glossary Of Terms

Appendix 2: DTB Announcement Scripts

Bibliography

NIMAS Miscellaneous Items

• Image Quality
• Text in images
• Books in languages other than English
• Excessive images in mid-level math titles

Acknowledgments