DAISY Consortium Open Source Projects

A greater collaboration for better production tools

Romain Deltour <rdeltour(at)gmail.com>Find out more: daisy.org/daisy-projects

Outline

General ContextDAISY Consortium StrategyAutomated Authoring: The Pipeline ProjectInteractive Authoring: Obi and Tobi

An increasing demand for accessible content

Publishers and organizations have to provide accessible content:

• to a wide range of user groups• through various distribution channels• to an increasing variety of devices• in several output formats

Several output formats

• DAISY 2.02• DAISY3 (formally DAISY/NISO Z39.86 2005)• upcoming DAISY 4 distribution format• EPUB• Large print• Braille• …

Requirements for production tools

Efficiency:•produce many documents in a short timeLow costEasy to develop and easy to maintainVersatility:•produce several formats, integrate in heterogeneous systems

DAISY Membership

World Map with DAISY member organization locations

Collaborative Projects

A strong international collaboration allows to:• lower the development cost• increase software quality• answer the heterogeneous community needs• leverage the available skills and resources

Strategy for Software Developments

• Open Source projects• Member organizations’ contributions• Permissive licensing: allows both non-profit

and commercial reuse• Vendor neutral approach: use of standards,

cross-platform software

A Comprehensive Tool Suite

• Interactive Authoring: Obi, Tobi• Automated Authoring: Pipeline• Validation: ZedVal, Pipeline• Player: AMIS

Objectives of the DAISY Pipeline

• fully automated processing• modular pipelined conversions• support a wide range of input and output

formats• promote the "single source master" approach• extensible and customizable

Pipeline 1 : An Established Solution

• Project launched in 2005• Widely used in the DAISY Community• Many third party contributions• Successfully integrated in larger applications (e. g. “Save as DAISY”)

Pipeline 2 : The New Generation• Fundamental redesign towards an enterprise-grade solution• Focus on platform neutral standards (W3C Xproc, XSLT,…)• Improve the interoperability with the mainstream• A first reference implementation of DAISY 4• Better support for EPUB• Progressively increased functionality (Braille, TTS production)

Pipeline 2 : General ApproachPhase 1 (May 2010 to September 2011): Core redesign and support for DAISY 4 Authoring and InterchangePhase 2 (September 2011 to September 2013): Extended functionality and deployment optionsDedicated working groups for specific tasks•Braille production•TTS-based productionSeveral deployment options•Command line tool•Web Service API•Web Application•Lightweight UI

Obi : An Audio Production Tool Production of audio-only books•Easy to use, with a minimal amount of training•Fully accessible Windows application•Support for internationalization

Photo: DAISY Production - Obi user

Tobi : A Modular Production Tool•Production tool for accessible multimedia formats (DAISY 3)•Intuitive workflow for synchronized audio recording and editing•Support import of DTBook and EPUB•More functionality can be provided through plug-ins•Fully accessible Windows application

Tobi screenshot

Collaborative approach allows us to create quality tools and improve the availability of accessible content to print-disabled people.

Thank you!