<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Why not offer all options off the web page? That way, who ever wanted what ever option could just take it.<div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jun 26, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Robert Jaquiss wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I would suggest the use of
DAISY format for materials. Eventually everyone will have an NLS player and can
easily use the materials. If we want our site usable by the general public, we
might want to set up our books as web pages. In this way, anyone could open one
and use a table of contents type page to select the desired portion.
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Regards,</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Robert</font></div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><b>From:</b>
<a title="th404@comcast.net" href="mailto:th404@comcast.net">Tina Hansen</a>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="Nfb-history@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:Nfb-history@nfbnet.org">Nfb-history@nfbnet.org</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 26, 2010 1:40
PM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [Nfb-history] Proposal and Ideas
for Archiving NFB Audio Content</div>
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<div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">I am pleased to see that we’re
finally beginning to offer some of our literature as online audio. Yet there
is one problem: the inability to find a speech of interest within these large
documents. I recognize that if we’re going to allow better access, some way
needs to be done to find an individual article within these larger documents.
I have a few ideas on what can be done about this, based on what I’ve seen in
the general audio book market. I want to list the pros and cons of what I’ve
seen and get the group’s ideas.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Option 1: User Downloads Large
Segments: This is what’s being used now for the two books on the site: Walking
Alone and Marching Together and the book on Dr. Jernigan.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Pros: Each part is a single
file, making it somewhat easier to download.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Cons: Can’t find an individual
speech or article. For instance, I may want to discuss a speech or article
with others, but unless I was able to find it and set a bookmark, I’d not be
able to do so.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Option 2: Split the material
into small files. I’ve seen this approach used by at least one audio book
company when offering their titles for download.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Pros: Easier to find an
individual speech of interest. For instance, I may wish to find a speech by
Dr. Jernigan that I want to discuss with others, and for the discussion, I
could use it apart from the larger book.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Cons: More files to download,
manage and organize.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Option 3: Zip File. Whichever
option we go with, use of a zip archive could work. I know that we’re doing
this for each issue of the Monitor.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Pros: Whether the archive is a
book like Walking Alone or one of the kernel books, the whole thing can be
downloaded at once.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">This way, if I was to download
the material, I could set it to download, go do something else, and only check
back periodically. Dial-up users could get the download started before they go
to bed, but those who are broadband users would be able to work on it while
doing something else.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Cons: Not everyone knows how to
unzip archive files.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Option 4: DAISY</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">There’s been a great deal of
interest in DAISY access, and I’m surprised we’ve not explored this option, at
least, to the extent that we could.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Pros: Parts don’t need to be
split up into small files, thus the whole thing could be packaged as a zip
file for download. Markup could be done by someone who knows about DAISY.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Cons: Even though DAISY players
are becoming more common, they’re not in the mainstream. Many in the blind
community still don’t have these players.</div><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font size="2" face="Arial">What do
others think of these comments? Thanks.</font></div></div><div>
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