Open repositories made accessible through XML transformations Mireia Ribera Turró Universitat de Barcelona DAISY 2009

Goals & Methodology State-of-the-art study Identification of synergies between open acess initiative / scientific publishing and accessible publishing proof-of-concept software development: Open repositories + XML transformations = Prototype “DAISY4DSpace”

State-of-the-art: previous research PDF/UA HTML-WCAG DAISY Crombie CWA 15778:2008 Creative Commons DSpace Fedora Open Access LaSIGE UOC Braillenet Accessible digital document formats Scientific publishing Adaptive content processing

Principles of Open access and Creative Commons OA 1)Free access to scientific journal articles OA 2) Control of scientific publishing by academic institutions OA 3) Authors create, store and disseminate articles thanks to information technology CC) Authors grant their work with less restrictive rights than traditional copy right.

State-of-the-art: the digital document Digital documents are a set of pieces, linked by metadata and joined upon need. A multimodal book which includes text, sounds, and images designed for blind people, people with low vision or dyslexia, or textsound imagesvideo

State-of-the-art: Publishers (not only scholarly publishing) Ebooks & Audiobooks XML (DITA, NLM DTD, DocBook) DAISY Consortium and policies to promote accessible digital materials in education.

Published documents PDF, HTML, Paper... Documents born highly structured Identification of synergies: Digital accessibility in the publishing industry Disabled users requirements : Same price Same moment Publishing industry : Multiple channels Content reuse and repurposing Documents born highly structured Adaptivity Semantic documents Transformations XML

Identification of synergies: Adaptivity in scientific articles Accessibility Open access Originals Copyright transformation / normalization RSSthumbnails Plain text for search Originals transformation HTMLAudio Enlarged text Copyright

Model building: a new scenario proposal Microsoft Word Open Office Write LaTEX PDF large text XHTML Speech PDF DTBook Start Template Create article MS WordOO Write DTBook Submit Transform Validate Accessibility expert Author DAISY PDF large text XHTML … Publish End users End Repository owner

Daisy4DSpace

Conclusions: A sustainable and accessible publishing workflow is possible and necessary Multichannel publishing benefits users and publishers. Convergence between open access and accessibility demands DTBook as the most suitable pivotal format for transformations “Yes, we can”: prototype demonstration benefitting repository holders, accessibility commissioners, and end-users.

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