What I did on my summer holidays.

[Janina Sajka]

There is a profound difference between recording digitally and the DAISY 
standard. If you only record, from beginning to end, you're functionally 
no different than the analog cassette. Instead, DAISY imposes hierarchical 
structure onto the recording, using the SMIL protocol. That way, you can 
"rewind" and "fast forward" to something meaningful, because it's 
structural, unlike today's media which only "rewind" or "fast forward" 
some number of inches of tape irrespective of the actual intellectual 
contents.
 On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Don't know about elsewhere, but I know that some agencies here in Australia
> have been recording their masters digitally for some time now.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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