What I did on my summer holidays.

[Janina Sajka]

Can you? Of course you can. Point of fact is the agencies won't be doing 
much of this, because it's a very lot of work--nmuch more work than 
recording from scratch.
 On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> 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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				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)
http://www.openebook.org