The Right to Read: DAISY is the best way to read and publish for everyone
Hiroshi Kawamura
President of The DAISY Consortium
IFLA - Joint Meeting:
Library Services to People with Special Needs, and Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
August 13, 2010
The Right to Read: DAISY is the best way to read and publish for everyone
Hiroshi Kawamura
President of The DAISY Consortium
http://www.daisy.org
E-mail: President@daisy.org
What is DAISY?
- DAISY: Digital Accessible Information System.
- DAISY is an international standard for the “accessible multimedia” cf. CRPD Art.2
- Navigation and Synchronization: key features
- Different reading styles of diverse users are supported by the DAISY Standards
- EPUB and DAISY harmonization: a revolution
At Gothenburg City Library
DAISY:Everybody may read with audio, text, graphics and video/sign languages soon
Example of DAISY multisensory education materials for Tsunami Evacuation
DAISY = Universal Design of Knowledge Sharing
DAISY = Universal Design of Knowledge Sharing
IFLA 2010 Gothenburg 10-15 August
United Against the Stigma of HIV and Disability
By Disabled People South Africa And DAISY for South Africa
Resource manual for Disability and HIV/AIDS Training: English Original in DAISY Format
Hulpbronhandleiding vir Gestremdheid- en MIV/Vigs-opleiding: Afrikaans
WUMQULU WOKUQEQESHWA KWABANOKUKHUBAZEKA NABANE -HIV/AIDS : Zulu
Incwadi yokubonelela Abakhubazekileyo/abaneziphene noqeqesho lweHIV/AIDS : Xhoza
DAISY for Disaster Preparedness
Digital Accessible Information System
DIASY is the Best Way to Read and Publish
Everybody in the world including persons with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge, without delay or additional expenses
DAISY users(Print disabilities)
- Blind or low vision
- Deaf or hard of hearing
- Physical disability which prevents handling of printed books
- Cognitive disabilities (including Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism etc)
- Intellectual disabilities
- Psychiatric disabilities
- Age concerned reading difficulties
- Illiterates
- temporarily difficult to read such as a traveler
- Users languages that don’t have written scripts (And those with a “mode” which makes reading books difficult such as driving a car )
Disability Caucus in WSIS:Bridging the Divide
World Telecom 2009, 5-9 October, Geneva
DAISY for All in Developing Countries
World Telecommunication and Information Society Award 2008
World Telecommunication and Information Society Award 2008
You Tube video on Award Ceremony
DAISY4 & EPUB3
Current DAISY
- multimedia DAISY
- DAISY Talking Books
- Text only DAISY
- EPUB２
DAISY４
Multimedia DAISY
- Text only DAISY(EPUB３)
- DAISY Talking Books
DAISY Production/distribution Flow
Word Processor→Save as DAISY →DAISY XML Source File,
ANSI/NISO Z39.86
2005 ---> 2011
Books→conversion →DAISY XML Source File,
ANSI/NISO Z39.86
2005 ---> 2011
E-file→Pipleline →DAISY XML Source File,
ANSI/NISO Z39.86
2005 ---> 2011
Audio→inport →DAISY XML Source File,
ANSI/NISO Z39.86
2005 ---> 2011
DAISY XML Source File
ANSI/NISO Z39.86
2005---> 2011
→DAISY Media ePub, Braille, Large print, Books on demand
Open Library
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL19367527M/The_Iliad_of_Homer
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7215633M/The_Iliad_of_Homer/daisy
Conclusions
- Knowledge contents in DAISY format in combination with assistive technologies is the best logical and practical solution to share information and knowledge for everybody including persons with diverse disabilities, illiterates, language minorities, and indigenous language groups who do not have written scripts
- DAISY supports everybody to read in their own language
- DAISY promotes full participation of everybody as an active partner with dignity thus contributes to develop a truly human centered inclusive society where Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) principle is respected.
- Critical global issues such as Poverty, Disasters, AIDS and Climate Change need to be tackled by sharing knowledge in accessible format such as DAISY
- DAISY and EPUB are developing “one source solution” for inclusive publishing.