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DAISY Online StandardBringing things together

Trish Egan

Vision Australia

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Contents

• Background

• Online Standard

– How it Works

– Features

– Benefits

• Vision Australia experience

• A working demonstration

• What Next?

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Background – DAISY Online

• High level of agency interest – on line offers many possibilities for future service delivery and information exchange

• Standard overseeing delivery of digital, accessible content – DAISY Consortium 2007

• Technical development and user needs

• Bring together DAISY and the world wide web via a Services Orientated Architecture – the DAISY online standard

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Daisy Online

What is Daisy Online?

• It is a protocol that standardises the communication between a compliant Reading System and a DAISY based service eg library

How does the Daisy Online standard bring Daisy, SOA and the World Wide Web together?

• It has been primarily built to transfer Daisy and other accessible content from a service provider to a Reading System.

• It defines a Web Service and specifies the use of associated standards and satisfies the requirements of a service orientated architecture

• A reading System downloads/streams content over http and https, and interacts with a Service through the web Service defined by this protocol.

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Daisy Online - Features Security

• Content protection via PDTB2

• Transmission standard of https

• Service Models

• Lending

• Acquisition

• Multi format : DAISY text and audio

• Content selection

• Non-player based eg phone, website

• Player based eg player menu

• Others

• Publishing updates to content

• Saving and retrieving bookmarks

• Messaging

• Dynamic menus

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Daisy Online - Benefits

• Information delivery pathway is consistent

• Cost effective- quick and simple

• Inter-agency content sharing easier, notwithstanding copyright issues

• Supported by Consortium members

• Client needs have remained top of mind

• Enhanced independence

• Method of playback enhances choice and mobility

• Direct interaction allows for speed of delivery

• Non-computer dependent

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Test Implementation of the

Daisy Online Protocol   Vision Australia has built a test implementation of the Daisy Online protocol

that enables a user to: 

1. Download pre-defined content  

2. Perform the following activities using the Dynamic Menu Feature of the protocol:

• Search the catalogue.

• Take a Survey.

• Buy a book.

• Update User profile.    

 

3. Save and Retrieve bookmarks. 

4. Receive updated versions of pre-accessed content. 

5. Receive messages from the Service.

Test implementation enables hardware manufacturers to include compatibility

   

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Demonstration

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i-access® online test implementation flowchart

DAISY LibraryFTP Server

Narrator OCR

Internet

Electronic filefrom Publishers

i-accessWeb services

DAISYConverter

Vision Australia Production Server

Synthetic Voice(If requested)

DAISY 2.02&

DAISY 3

i-access Downloader(application) DAISY

Text or Audio

Range of reading devices

Hardware or software

Automated

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i-access ® Online

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i-access ® online

MagazinesBooksNewspapers

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What Next?

• Standardised communication between a Reading System and a Service provider.

• Would not be possible without the contribution of many members of the DAISY community.

• The Daisy Online Standard is scheduled to be submitted for approval as a draft standard for test use at the Daisy Board meeting this weekend.

• The test implementations will allow DAISY developers to develop products or implement protocol into existing and new DAISY readers – hardware and software.

• The next step could be to extend the standard to enable communication between two Service Providers for the interchange of content - the Global Library?

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