What I did on my summer holidays.

[Victor Tsaran]

Yeah, but can't you take existing material and break it into meaningful
pieces and mark them up? I think this type of job could be performed by
anybody, given some simple procedure. Otherwise, tons of books will have to
be rerecorded in a new DAISY format.
Best,
Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: What I did on my summer holidays.


> 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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