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Introduction
to DAISY Efforts
to provide accessible media for the blind, low vision, and other members
of the print challenged community have led to the development of a number
of approaches and formats, especially with the recent explosion of
technological developments. At
this time, we are witnessing the emergence of a set of standards that are
badly needed. The DAISY
consortium was formed to meet that need. DAISY
– Digital Accessible
Information SYstem
– is a series of specifications of what is required to produce truly
accessible media – accessible digital talking books.
Within each of the specifications that have been released, the
DAISY Consortium has categorized six types of books outlined in the DAISY
guidelines and training material. The
DAISY standard originated in Sweden in 1994.
By 1997, the DAISY Consortium had been formed and had decided to
make the proprietary standard public.
There have been four formal releases of the specifications defining
the book types as developed by the DAISY Consortium: Ø
DAISY 2.0, released in 1998 Ø DAISY 2.02, released in
February, 2001 Ø DAISY 3.0, released in March,
2002, also known as the ANSI/NISO 2002, and the NISO 1.1 standard. Ø NISO 2005, released April 12,
2005, by NISO – the Z39.86 standard entitled “2005 Specifications for
the Digital Talking Book. Link
to the DAISY
Consortium web site for more detailed information if you need it.
A link to the NISO web site is on the resources
of this web site. The
first DAISY release obtained almost no support. But
in contrast DAISY 2.02 became quite popular and is today the most widely
used. Note that the display
file (a marked up e-text or web page file) from the NISO 2005 version
became, and is today, the NIMAS standard display file.
To find out more about the NIMAS files and process, go to the NIMAS
Introduction page. For
a description of the six DAISY book types, take a look at the DAISY
Types page. To
understand how eClipseWare™ works with the DAISY book types, go to the eClipseWare and DAISY page. |
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