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Digital Talking Book

Based on an ANSI NISO standard, the text portions are called
Digital Talking Book (DTBook), an XML standard coordinated by the
DAISY Consortium and the Library of Congress.org

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The act, signed December 3 by
President Bush, gives students with print disabilities equal access to
educational materials as their sighted peers.
Data Conversion Laboratory now provides conversion to DTBook, as
part of its "Books2Bytes" service (www.

For more information, visit
http://home. IDEAlliance builds on
these languages to create specifications that enhance efficiency and
speed information in all aspects of publishing and content-related
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the universal format for structured documents and data on the Web.

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BOOKS2BYTES SERVICE
http://www.asp
XTech 2005 is being held in conjunction with the Gilbane
Conference on Content Management.

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Birbeck, CEO and CTO, x-port.,
United Kingdom

"WHATWG: Proposing Extensions to HTML4 and the DOM," Ian
Hickson, Standards Development, Opera Software, ASA , Norway

"Xfy Technology: Making the Most of XML in Enterprise Client
Software," Jeff Bennett, Principal Systems Designer,
Justsystem Corporation, Japan

"Web Services-Based Syndication Protocol for Valued Content,"
Dianne Kennedy, VP Publishing Technologies, IDEAlliance ,
United States

"Dynamic Topic Maps Using Web Service Interfaces," Eric
Freese, Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis, United
States

For information on presentations, sponsorships, exhibiting and
other marketing opportunities, visit http://www.xtech -conference.html

About IDEAlliance

IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance ) is a
not-for-profit membership organization.

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They can listen to a textbook on a computer or
read using refreshable braille.
"An historic milestone," says Mark Gross, president of Data
Conversion Laboratory (DCL), a New York-based technology firm and a
supporter of the new standard. "Like Eli Whitney's invention of
interchangeable parts leading to the industrial revolution, an
accepted standard will revolutionize document preparation for the
blind and visually impaired.

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DAISY denotes the Digital Accessible Information System.
For general information and to register to attend , visit
http://www.

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Its mission is to advance
user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and
content-related processes by developing standards, fostering business
alliances, and identifying best practices.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Editors
XTech 2005 Conference

ALEXANDRIA , Va.
"This year's late-breaking news presentations will provide
up-to-the-minute perspective on open data and other trends generating
so much 'buzz' within the industry," says Marion L.lighthouseseminars .

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XML Levels Educational Playing Field for Blind + Visually Impaired

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"The new service allows authorized organizations to easily produce
materials without capital investment and without long term
commitments" says Gross.

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The DAISY Consortium was formed in May, 1996 by talking book
libraries to lead the worldwide transition to Digital Talking Books.

Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML.

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DCL has over 20 years experience in document conversion, wrote the
data conversion chapter in the "Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing",
and has clients in the publishing, library, aerospace, pharmaceutical ,
defense, and software industries.

``Late-Breaking News'' Presentations Announced for IDEAlliance XTech 2005; New Session Topics Include Open Data Xfy Topic Maps Web Services and More

Topics and presenters include:

"Open Street Maps and Spatial Data," Jo Walsh, Co-Author,
"Mapping Hacks," United Kingdom

"BBC News and RSS, Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love Open Data Services," Joel Chippindale, Software Engineer
and Kevin Hinde, Head of Technical Development, BBC News
Interactive, United Kingdom

"XHTML2: Accessible , Usable, Device-Independent, and
Semantic," Steven Pemberton, Senior Researcher, W3C/CWI ,
Netherlands and Mark R.

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NEW YORK----

Visually Impaired Students No Longer Have to Wait Six Months
or Longer for Accessible Textbooks , Thanks to XML and Data Conversion
Laboratory

For the blind and visually impaired new technology has opened
doors to education.

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This will change with the reauthorization of the Individuals with
Disabilities Educational Act (IDEA).books2bytes. Founded in 1966 as the
Graphic Communications Association, IDEAlliance has been a leader in
information technology - developing Document Markup Metalanguage
(GENCODE), sponsoring the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML),
and fostering eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

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"Publishers can help libraries serving persons with disabilities
by providing XML files in DTBook or other XML vocabularies that can be
transformed to this standard ," says George Kerscher, secretary general
for the DAISY Consortium.

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FURTHER INFORMATION

DATA CONVERSION LABORATORY, INC.com

DAISY CONSORTIUM (http://www. Elledge, Vice
President , Information Technology Alliances and Conferences,
IDEAlliance. Learn more about IDEAlliance at www .

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Yet students with print disabilities
needed to wait six months or longer for an accessible textbook to be
made available. This makes conversion into accessible formats such as
braille, large print or digital text much faster.

XML is a subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

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Key to the act is requiring a standard file format for each
textbook. (http://www.----XTech 2005
(formerly XML Europe), the premier European conference for developers
and managers working with XML and Web technologies, has announced the
"late-breaking news" sessions for this year's conference slated for
24-27 May, 2005, at the Amsterdam RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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