NIMAC Update Julia Myers January 2012

NIMAC Statistics Accepted File Sets: January 2012: 29,490 January 2011: 23,815 (24% increase)

NIMAC Statistics Publishers Working with NIMAC: January 2012: 105 January 2011: 99 (6% increase)

NIMAC Statistics States/Outlying Areas Coordinating: January 2012: 57 January 2011:57

NIMAC Statistics Authorized Users: January 2012: 176 January 2011: 177

NIMAC Statistics Accessible Media Producers: January 2012: 189 January 2011:171 (11% increase)

NIMAC Statistics National AMP Authorized User Accounts: Learning Ally:22 Bookshare:33

NIMAC Statistics Unique Downloads by AUs: January 2012: 6,080 January 2011: 3,375 (80% increase)

NIMAC Statistics Unique Downloads by AMPs: January 2012: 4,494 January 2011: 3,144 (43% increase)

Unique Downloads 10,574 unique downloads by AMPs and AUs since the NIMAC has been in operation. Over 35% of the inventory has been downloaded at least once. Note: Figure does not include multiple downloads of a file by the same user to produce different formats. Actual use of NIMAS in accessible media production is greater than the number of unique downloads.

Downloads by Content Type Textbooks67% Supplementary Reading Materials20% Consumables (workbooks)11% Other (worksheets, etc.) 2% TOTAL100%

Inventory by Content Type Textbooks: 25% Other: 7% Consumables: 9% Supplementary Reading Materials: 59% TOTAL: 100%

NIMAC Inventory Growth Jan 2011Jan 2012 Textbooks: 5,773 7,389 Other: 1,738 2,055 Consumables: 2,500 2,790 Supplementary reading materials: 13,804 17,256 TOTAL: 23,815 29,490

AU Downloads Top 10 From 12/03/2006 through 01/01/2012 AccountDownloads CSMT (California)1,611 George Mason University (Virginia)396 Indiana Center for Accessible Materials364 Wyoming Institute for Disabilities358 Illinois Instructional Materials Center232 Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind169 Chicago Lighthouse159 Indiana Center for Accessible Materials157 University of Louisville155 Ohio State School for the Blind152

AMP Downloads Top 10 From 12/03/2006 through 01/01/2012 AccountDownloads Bookshare3,265 APH325 Learning Ally168 APEL Education Consultancy LLC148 Anamosa Braille Center91 Braille Access Center83 Transcribing Mariners64 TechAdapt59 Arizona Instructional Resource Center44 Shepherd18

Recap of NIMAC Growth Jan. 2012Jan. 2011Increase Files accepted in prior 12 months 5,873Files accepted in prior 12 months 4,24938% AU downloads6,080AU downloads3,37580% AMP downloads4,494AMP downloads3,14443% Files Available29,490Files Available23,81524%

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2011 File Quality Issues Percentage of files downloaded in 2011 reported to have problems:.4% (four-tenths of one percent) Total number of problem reports in 2011: 25 Problems determined to be issues with the AT device and not the file set: 2 Best practices issues: 2 (Both were files in which text included in an image was not also transcribed in the XML. The publishers were alerted and voluntarily corrected and resubmitted the files.)

2011 File Quality Issues Problems for which NIMAC required resubmission by publisher: 21 Percentage of cases in which publishers corrected and resubmitted file set: 100% Problems related to non-metadata OPF issues or XML declaration issues: 9 Actual file content problems (XML tagging, images, etc.): 12

2011 File Quality Issues Breakdown of issues in files with content problems: Pagination (missing, incorrect): 4 Broken annoref, noteref links: 2 Textual content (missing, incorrect): 3 Image file problems (e.g., corrupt image file): 3

2011 File Quality Issues During a recent visit to the Miami Accessible Media Project in Indiana, staff mentioned these NIMAS file issues: Ordered lists incorrectly coded (Most common issueneed print book to discern) Table of Contents coding (Next most common issue) Text embedded in an image not also included in XML file Pagination tags incorrectly nested inside a list Improper use of level headings (need print book to discern) Incorrect image referenced in the XML (need print book to discern) Sidebar placed incorrectly in the XML (need print book to discern) Misspellings in XML

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