DAISY 2.0 specification for review and comments

Greetings to all,

The Digital Audio Information based System (DAISY) Consortium is a
collection of libraries and organizations serving the blind and print
disabled community throughout the world. We are working on the replacement
of the analog cassette as a foundation for providing reading materials to
our consumers.

The first public draft of the specification based on HTML and SMIL is
available at:

http://www.montana.com/kerscher/daisy20.htm

You can learn more about the DAISY Consortium at:

http://www.daisy.org

One thing to remember is that many student books must be navigated quickly
and easily. Also many other types of books are not intended to be read
cover to cover. The specification provides tremendous improvements over the
traditional analog cassette.

There are several hardware manufactures who are building hand held players
for this type of book. Also, playback software and authoring tools are
under development.

I would love to hear your comments and suggestions. This is the first of
the specifications that the DAISY Consortium will be developing.

Best
George

George Kerscher, Project Manager
PM to the DAISY Consortium
Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic
Email: kerscher@montana.com
Phone: 406/549-4687

Received on Monday, 31 August 1998 23:54:40 UTC