[documentliberation-discuss] Re: introduction

hi

I've started a project with a couple of friends to start implementing 
daisy support in a cross platform library. It's going to be in python 
since that's the language my friends know but it can eventually be 
ported to another language if needed. If anyone is interested, you can 
clone the project at http://github.com/coffeeking/libdaisy.  We have a 
sample book in daisy 3.0 format. It's free as in freedom, richard 
stallmen's biography since that's under the gfdl and unlikely to result 
in a copyright battle. I'd eventually like this to either be part of the 
document liberation project or if that's not possible at least mentioned 
there, since it's directly related to getting files out of a legacy 
format and into something open. I've also gotten some interest from the 
developer of the cozy audiobook player at http://www.github.co

m/geigi/cozy.
Thanks
Kendell Clark

On 02/20/2018 02:26 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> My name is Kendell clark. I'm an active open source contributor and 
> active on http://www.linux-a11y.org. In short, our mission is to make 
> linux accessibility easy, both for users and for developers. We have a 
> long way to go, but that's not why I subscribed to this mailing list. 
> I'm al for liberating documents out of proprietary file formats and my 
> case is a good example of proprietary formats. I'm writing to see if 
> anyone is interested in helping to create a library for working with 
> the "daisy" digital accessible information system, format. It's not 
> exactly proprietary, since it is documented, and has specs, available 
> at http://www.daisy.org/specifications, but it is not much used, and 
> when it is used, it is used almost exclusively by proprietary 
> addaptive applications for reading the daisy format, such as fs 
> reader, which is part of the "job access with speech", hor jaws, 
> screen reader for microsoft windows. There are two different versions 
> of the standard, both completely different from one another. Daisy 
> 2.02, which is the oldest, and daisy 3.0, which is the newest. Now 
> daisy has largely been succeeded by the open epub standard, but 
> popular book sites for the visually impaired still use the legacy 
> format, although they do offer epub formats. I would like to work on a 
> libarary, maybe called libdaisy, to convert daisy files into open 
> formats. There was at one point, an odt2daisy addon for libreoffice 
> which could do this but it is no longer maintained and I do not 
> believe was open source, although I could be wrong about that. There 
> is one caveat to daisy and that is that there is optional drm, digital 
> rights management, built inot the spec. The definition of this support 
> is so vague as to provide a skeleton framework for the drm without 
> defining any specific methods for drm, probably so companies can each 
> develop their own, completely incompatible, drm frameworks. The one 
> saving grace is that the daisy 3 spec shares a lot of code with the 
> epub spec. They even use some of the same xml tags, so adding daisy 3 
> support shouldn't be too hard. Daisy 2 is a completely different 
> animal and uses  html, along with smil, simple multimedia integration 
> language I believe it stands for. Now I am completely new to 
> contributing to you guys, so I am not at all familiar with the tools 
> you guys use, or even whether they are accessible. I cannot directly 
> write computer code, but I can provide specifications, sample 
> documents, and information about the formats I'm interested in if that 
> would be helpful. There is a desperate need for daisy support in open 
> source software because linux currently has a handful of daisy 
> readers, most of which are abandoned long ago. There is one active 
> daisy reader, but it is command line only and only plays the older 
> daisy 2 format, and then only from cd. I also forgot to mention that 
> the daisy 2 and daisy 3 file spec also has support for audio files, 
> wav or mp3 file formats only. Is anyone interested?
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark

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people exercising their god given rights to use, study, modify and share code and ideas. And 
breaking drm wherever they find it.


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