The DAISY Standard
NISO named the DAISY Consortium as the maintenance agency of ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005, also known as the DAISY Standard. With this standard, NISO and the DAISY Consortium are working to radically improve reading experiences of those with reading disabilities. To learn more about the DAISY Consortium, please visit www.daisy.org.
The NISO membership approved the creation of a new working group to revise this standard in August 2008. The original revision proposal and a supporting business case can be found here. Additional questions can be sent to Karen Wetzel, NISO's Standards Program Manager, at kwetzel@niso.org.
Status
To follow the activities of this working group, visit the the ZedNext wiki where you can find working drafts, background information, minutes of conference calls, work plans, and timelines.
DAISY Revision Working Group Roster
Those names marked with an asterisk have focused their work on Part 1 (authoring) of the standard, but will not be as fully engaged with Part 2 (distribution).
| Administrative Chair George Kerscher Secretary General, DAISY E-mail: kerscher@montana.com Technical Chair Markus Gylling Chief Technology Officer, DAISY, TPB E-mail: markus.gylling@gmail.com Josh Altherr Accessible Solutions Specialist, GH LLC. E-mail: jaltherr@gh-accessibility.com John Brugge Senior Software Engineer, Bookshare E-mail: JohnBrugge@benetech.org Marisa DeMeglio Software and Standards Development, DAISY E-mail: marisa@dinf.ne.jp Keith Fahlgren Publishing Technology Engineer, O’Reilly E-mail: keith@oreilly.com Reuben Firmin Engineering Manager, Bookshare E-mail: ReubenF@Benetech.org *Matt Garrish Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) *Boris Goldowsky Center for Applied Special Technologies (CAST) Sean Hayes Media Accessibility Strategist, Microsoft E-mail: Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com |
Ole Holst Andersen IT Director, Danish National Library For Persons With Print Disabilities (NOTA) E-mail: oha@dbb.dk (soon to change) Kenny Johar Manager Architecture, Innovations and Accessible Solutions Enterprise Architect, Vision Australia E-mail: Kenny.Johar@visionaustralia.org Dominic Labbe Project leader, Humanware dominic.labbe@humanware.com Dennis Leas Director of Technology, GH LLC E-mail: dleas@gh-accessibility.com Sam Ogami Accessible Technology Expert CSU Office of the Chancellor E-mail: sogami@calstate.edu *Stephen Phippen Royal National Institute for Persons who are Blind (RNIB) James Pritchett Manager, Technology Development, RFB&D E-mail: jpritchett@rfbd.org *Per Sennels Huseby Kompetansesenter Daniel Weck Software Architect and Programmer, DAISY E-mail: daniel.weck@gmail.com |
Standard Information
ANSI/NISO Z39.86 - 2005 Specifications for the Digital Talking Book
Abstract: This standard defines the format and content of the electronic file set that comprises a digital talking book (DTB) and establishes a limited set of requirements for DTB playback devices. It uses established and new specifications to delineate the structure of DTBs whose content can range from XML text only, to text with corresponding spoken audio, to audio with little or no text. DTBs are designed to make print material accessible and navigable for blind or otherwise print-disabled persons.
ANSI Approval Date: 04/12/05
Status: Approved and Published Standard
Maintenance Agency: DAISY Consortium
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Z39.86 ResourcesPrevious Version
This information regarding the 2002 version of the Digital Talking Book standard is provided for organizations which are still supporting the older version. The DAISY Consortium also has information related to the superseded version at their website: http://www.daisy.org/z3986/
Download Z39.86-2002
NOTE: This version has been superseded by Z39.86-2005