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From: "Victor Tsaran" <tsar@sylaba.poznan.pl>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: What I did on my summer holidays.
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:09:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006e01c1a848$07742b50$0100a8c0@Cybertsar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201281250220.2580-100000@toccata.dsl092-170-083.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net>

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@afb.net>
To: <speakup@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@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
> Chair, Accessibility SIG
> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> http://www.openebook.org
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Kirk Reiser
 ` Janina Sajka
   ` Saqib Shaikh
     ` Thomas Ward
       ` Amanda Lee
     ` Janina Sajka
       ` Kirk Wood
         ` Geoff Shang
         ` Janina Sajka
           ` Kirk Wood
   ` Victor Tsaran
     ` Geoff Shang
       ` Janina Sajka
         ` Victor Tsaran [this message]
           ` Janina Sajka
         ` Geoff Shang
           ` Janina Sajka
             ` Kirk Wood
     ` Janina Sajka

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