Francisco Marti nez Calvo
Power Point Presentation

DAISY in Spain
Francisco Marti nez Calvo
International Symposium on
Community-based Inclusive Information Support
for Persons with Disabilities
Kyoto, Japan - February 6th, 2009

Current Production of DAISY Books

• ONCE is the only producer.
• Audio-only with NCC.
• 20,000 digital audio titles - 60% with DAISY structure.
• Analogue production was discontinued in 2008.
• Full preference to educational materials (100% of requests are filled).
• Audio-only books are a dead-end type of book.
• One input file - multiple output formats.

Distribution of DAISY books

Switching from the Analogue to Digital world.

End of 2008 - End of analogue production.

End of 2009 - End of new analogue copies.

End of 2010 - Only digital audio is produced and distributed.

CD as distribution media.

Online Digital Library.

Downloaded books - from 5,000 to 25,000 in the first month.

6,000 downloaded titles per month.

New distribution methods

Online distribution is a great success.

Mobile Phone distribution.

Code Factory (friend of the DAISY Consortium).

Mobile DAISY Player for Nokia Symbian 9 phones.

Text-only, audio-only, hybrid books.

DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3.

The audio book needs to be loaded into the phone.

Text-only books can be sent by e-mail.

Mobile Phone + Internet + TTS.

Expanding DAISY in Spain (1)

• ONCE produces 1,000 new audio DAISY titles every year.
• 1,400 titles from our archives are given DAISY structure every year.
• All these, together with our Braille production is only 4% of all published books in Spain in 2008.
• Specific books, produced in specific formats, by a specific organization, for specific users.

Expanding DAISY in Spain (2)

New factors may provoke a big change:

• New copyright law - exception for all disabilities.
• From “specific formats” to formats that adapt to the user’s needs.
• DAISY -aimed to all, disabled and non-disabled.
• Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
• Political and social pressures to give access.

Expanding DAISY in Spain (2)

ONCE’s THREE OBJECTIVES:

Promote DAISY production outside our organization.

Promote DAISY as one more standard in mainstream players.

Expand distribution of DAISY titles.

ONE CLEAR DIRECTION:

To put DAISY in the mainstream.

External Initiatives (1)

To shrink the gap between published titles and titles available in alternative formats:

Mainstream players.

DAISY books in every library.

DAISY books in every bookshop.

We have mainstream tools that may produce DAISY content: Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign CS4.

External Initiatives (2)

• Open University of Catalonia - accessible online content for everyone.
• Udima - Private Open University in Madrid.
• Interest from the Public Libraries Network.
• We can’t do it all ourselves.
• We shouldn’t be doing it all ourselves.

Thank you!

fmc@once.es