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Reach more users Create a document Save as a DAISY master Transform to different formats.

DAISY stands for... Digital Accessible Information SYstem

The DAISY Consortium Non-profit worldwide organization Created the DAISY standard Maintains the DAISY standard Supports the DAISY community Develops the future of the standard

The DAISY Standard “ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Specification for the Digital Talking Book” Key features: XML vocabulary supports publishing MP3 audio High-level navigation

NCXSMILDTBookAudioImages Navigation (Table of Contents) Synchronizes media (text, audio, images) Text markupMP3 audio JPEG, PNG, or SVG A DAISY fileset contains several formats:

DTBook “Digital Talking” Book XML file format Represents actual structures, not just style Maintains fidelity of information

Accessibility DAISY opens up the way to many options: DAISY

Target Accessibility DAISY is accessible National: NIMAS International: UN Convention TODO: emphasize market for accessible books

Accessibility e-Publishing DAISY opens up the way to many options: DAISY

EPUB format Kindle Sony Reader Stanza (iPhone) Target e-Publishing

Accessibility e-Publishing Audio books DAISY opens up the way to many options: DAISY

Target audio books MP3 iPod APA/CEA standard

Transform Repurpose valuable content by creating a DAISY master. Then transform to whatever e-text format you need. WordML WordML XHTML XHTML RTF RTF InDesign InDesign Custom XML format Custom XML format EPU B Audio Book RTF, LaTeX, and more XHTM L DAIS Y

Creating DAISY There are many paths Can use DAISY authoring applications Can use mainstream applications.

DAISY from Word Save as DAISY add-in Free and open source Use from within MS Word Export DTBook XML

DAISY from InDesign Adobe InDesign CS4 TODO: add all the details

DAISY and You In-house tagged XML files Transform into DTBook with XSLT Use this transformation as part of the publishing workflow

The DAISY Pipeline Transformation utility for DAISY Award winning, free, and open source Select your input and output

The DAISY Pipeline Create a full DAISY fileset from a DTBook text file Create EPUB Create Audio Books Migrate to another version of DAISY Validate your DAISY book

The DAISY Pipeline Features: command-line, batch processing, audio generation Default formats include EPUB, Audio books, DAISY, XHTML, RTF Customize scripts

Exporting to EPUB Use the DAISY DTBook XML for the source Automatically generate the full EPUB file set Preserve semantics in the EPUB output

DAISY and Audio books APA/CEA support MP3 files in ASCII collated sequence MP3 playlist

Start to finish Go from Word to DTBook Simultaneously output DAISY, EPUB, and Audio book versions. Here’s a step-by-step example.

Create in Word

Assign styles

Use structures Tables Lists Page numbers Footnotes

Click Save As DAISY

Example (cont’d) Import the DTBook file into the Pipeline Set up Pipeline jobs Press “Go” TODO: add screenshots (probably across several slides)

Example (cont’d) Output as EPUB Output as DAISY Output as an Audio book

Using the output DAISY book EPUB reader Audio MP3 book

DAISY book version The full DAISY fileset offers synchronized multimedia. TODO: add a video of AMIS

EPUB version TODO: add a video of one or two ePub readers.

Audio book version TODO: add a video of an iPod playing an audio book.

Future developments The Pipeline The DAISY Standard Save as DAISY

Future of Pipeline PipeOnline: Server side transformations and order fulfillment Master as DAISY and repurpose automatically for sale Transform on the fly

Future Save as DAISY Version 2.0 will be released soon Exports full DAISY book with audio TODO: more details

Future of the DAISY standard TODO: add details of what publisher- requested features we are including

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