[Dtb-talk] Bookshare.org, internet archive and other automated DAISY production

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello Greg:

     It is my opinion that DAISY books should absolutely reflect the 
structure of the original printed book. If they don't how could a student 
deal with a teacher's instructions to turn to page XX. In situations where a 
citation is needed, a reader couldn't produce a professionally acceptable 
citation. If the DAISY book is to be used to produce braille, proper 
pagination is a must. Sections and chapters also must be preserved.

Regards,

Robert Jaquiss

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com>
To: "daisy group" <dmfc-ig at mail.daisy.org>; "Discussion of Digital Talking 
Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:41 PM
Subject: [Dtb-talk] Bookshare.org,internet archive and other automated DAISY 
production


>I have been thinking of late about the various attempts to generate DAISY 
>from fully automated systems such as seems to be the case at Bookshare.org, 
>Internet Archive and some other sources.
>
> The issue I have with these books is that their DAISY structure does not 
> reflect the printed book. In most cases that I have seen the book is a 
> single long heading level 1 with perhaps page numbering in place. In many 
> cases these page numbers are again not reflective of the printed book, for 
> example I have found books with duplicate page numbers. For example where 
> there is a page number 4 in the front matter and a page number 4 in the 
> body matter.
>
> More troubling however is the lack of navigation to chapters and other 
> subsections of the books. This is of particular concern in non-fiction 
> text.
>
> Am I just being overly picky here? What do you all think?
>
> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
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