Never lose a sale because of a format:Reach farther with

DAISY.

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

NCXNCX SMILSMIL DTBookDTBook AudioAudio ImagesImages

Navigation(Table of Contents)

Synchronizes media

(text, audio, images)

Text markup MP3 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

TransformRepurpose valuable content by creating a DAISY

master. Then transform to whatever e-text format you need.

•WordMLWordML

•XHTMLXHTML

•RTFRTF

•InDesignInDesign

•Custom Custom XML formatXML format

EPUEPUBB

Audio Audio BookBook

RTF, LaTeX, and RTF, LaTeX, and moremore

XHTMXHTMLL

DAISDAISYY

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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Questions and comments?