[Dtb-talk] What good is a standard.

[Aman Singer]

Hi.
	There are quite a few packages which are free and which will allow
the quick and easy mounting of ISO images in Windows. The one I use and like
is at
	http://www.daemon-tools.cc 
	HTH.
	Aman

-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Pratik Patel
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 7:43 PM
To: 'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] What good is a standard.

Windows does not allow direct mounting of ISO images unless you install one
of several software for that specific purpose.  Most such software costs a
certain amount of money.

Pratik


Pratik Patel
Director, IT Access. Director, PeopleTech.
The City University of New York

-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Greg Kearney
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:28 PM
To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] What good is a standard.

On Macs and PC you can mount ISO images as drives and then copy the  
files to the Stream or other locations/players.

Greg
On Nov 8, 2007, at 2:19 PM, David Andrews wrote:

> 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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