Z3986 Maintenance Committee Agenda, Google Campus September 16-18 2008
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Agenda, Revision to the DAISY Standard, officially, the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Specification for the Digital Talking Book
Status: Draft 2 Last revised: August 26, 2008
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Tuesday September 16
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. State of affairs (GK)
- Requirements and the business case development conducted since October 2007
- Since face-to-face in April 2008 following NISO process for official revision to the standard
- Official NISO process now in place
- looking ahead: goals and timeline
Suggested prior reading:
- Business case for revision of the standard [1]
III. A three pillar primer (MG)
This session will summarize and recap the tentative design approach that was created during the spring Committee F2F. The purpose is to get everyone up to speed with the currently envisioned design, and to reinvestigate the viability of the approach, including possible revisions.
Suggested prior reading:
- Z3986 Maintenance Committee Minutes, Palo Alto April 15-17 2008 (day three in particular) [2]
- DAISY Accessibility Framework (DTB Modularization Document) [3]
LUNCH
IV. Goals, Resources, Timelines, Development Process (GK, MG)
- Identification of resources for the design and development. This will guide us in making the decisions. Can we develop using parallel tracks, or will we need to concentrate resources in consecutive developments?
- Definition and Formation of subprojects. Tentatively:
- subproject 1: XML Authoring and Interchange Format + RDF/Role framework
- subproject 2: Distribution Formats
- High level timelines
- Subproject Process Methodologies
Wednesday September 17
V. Elaboration: Authoring and Interchange format, RDF/Role framework (ALL)
This session is expected to cover the main part of the remaining F2F. The session serves as the starting point for the subproject dealing with the XML Authoring+RDF subproject. The goals are:
- to introduce and evaluate supporting technologies to use for creating a dynamic and extensible XML Authoring framework (such as DITA, NVDL, RelaxNG/XSD).
- To look closer at the RDF/xhtml:role technologies and how they could be adapted for our needs.
- To look at the current DTBook grammar and define areas for improvement.
Outcomes:
- One or several prototypical solutions that can be further elaborated on and tested by the subproject WG during the continued elaboration phase.
- A clear formulation of the future role of the base DTBook grammar, and where it needs improvement, possibly including an evaluation of existing improvement suggestions such as those proposed during 2007 by the Braille-in-Daisy WG. See, specifically the A Survey of the State of the Art.
Thursday September 18 (F2F ends at lunch)
VI. Elaboration: Authoring and Interchange format - Continued
- final definition of deliverables for the subproject WG (GK, MG)
