[Dtb-talk] A question about production practice

[Greg Kearney]

Most of these books do not have page announcements but where they do we use those. Otherwise we have a set of standing part announcements which we insert along with an explanation in the "About" section.

Our question received many replies almost all of them indicating that we should retain the part announcements even if they meant little to the original print book so that is what we will do when we can not locate the chapters.

Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA 6100
Tel: 08 9311 8246 | Fax: 08 9361 8696 | www.guidedogswa.com.au
Tel: 307-224-4022 (North America)
Email: greg.kearney at guidedogswa.com.au
Email: gkearney at gmail.com

On 09/12/2010, at 10:32 PM, Steve Jacobson wrote:

> Greg,
> 
> When you mark the beginnings of tape tracks, do you include any of the corresponding announcements?  For example, is there an announcement upon 
> which page reading resumes or such?  When I hear NLS books proclaim that "level 1 provides access to the beginning and the end of the book," it 
> generally brings on a chuckle as that buys one little.  If you have no other markings, the beginnings of tracks on older books might provide some usefulness 
> if they can be inserted without too much work.  If there is a page announcement that is retained, then the beginning of tracks would be particularly useful 
> enough to keep.  If there is no associated announcement of any kind, then I don't think the marks at the beginning of tracks would likely be missed.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Steve Jacobson
> 
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:05:56 +0800, Greg Kearney wrote:
> 
>> Hello;
> 
>> Here at Association for the Blind of Western Australia we have been digitising tapes and making up digital talking books. In the case of fiction we have 
> been producing books with heading level one that correspond to the tape side. We have been marking these as parts and providing navigation to those 
> original tape sides. We understand that chapter navigation is best and we try to do that when we can but it is not possible in all cases to do so.
> 
>> We are thinking of eliminating this kind of navigation as it has no connection to the original text of the book. Rather than doing this we would for fiction 
> only provide the recording of the book at a single level one navigation point. This would save us a fair bit of time in production.
> 
>> We would like your comments on this possible change.
> 
>> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
>> Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
>> PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA 6100
>> Tel: 08 9311 8246 | Fax: 08 9361 8696 | www.guidedogswa.com.au
>> Tel: 307-224-4022 (North America)
>> Email: greg.kearney at guidedogswa.com.au
>> Email: gkearney at gmail.com
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