[Dtb-talk] What good is a standard.

[David Andrews]

Greg:

You raise a good issue, however it reflects more on the individual 
organizations then DAISY as an international standard.  With the 
Consortium working on an on-line project with standards for the 
distribution of books the emergence of the Stream and other devices, 
etc., hopefully the parochialism will be broken down.

And, speaking of the Stream when I went to your site I noticed that 
the Apple book was only available as an ISO.  For those of us with 
Streams and the like, that do not use CD's, this involves other 
steps, burning the ISO to a CD, then extracting files for transfer to 
another device -- unless I am missing something.

Are you going to offer a zip of the files themselves?

Dave

At 01:19 PM 11/8/2007, you wrote:
>In the last few days I have run into an issue which would seem to
>strike at the very heart of DAISY as a standard.
>
>I produced for Apple the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide. This short
>book is, in effect the user manual for Apple's screen reader. I
>generated this in DIASY 2.02 and DAISY/NISO 2005. It is fully valid,
>full text and full audio with images.
>
>Apple wants this book distributed as widely as possible and with that
>in mind we offered it to the NLS, RFB&D and any other organization and
>library service who wanted it. You may recall the posting here,. All
>that Apple asked was that no digital rights management be placed on
>the copies.
>
>The response we got back was puzzling to say the least. We have been
>informed by several entities that they do not accept books produced by
>others. To me this raises the question of what good is a world-wide
>standard for digital talking books if in the end entities are going to
>refuse to accept books from any source other than themselves. Does not
>such policies fly in the face of our efforts to produce an
>international standard.
>
>Anyway if there are libraries or agencies that want to distribute this
>title they are free to do so here is the 
>link:http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/books/vogs/
>
>In addition if you have a Solutions Radio or similar device that can
>play DAISY directly from an online source you can point it 
>tohttp://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/books/voiceover/ncc.html
>   and get it as well.
>
>If your organization does decide to offer this book would you please
>drop me a line and let me know.
>
>Greg Kearney
>535 S. Jackson St.
>Casper, Wyoming 82601
>307-224-4022
>gkearney at gmail.com
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