[duxuser] Re: Repository/Publisher's Files
- From: Susan Jolly-Woodruff <easjolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:42:36 -0600
Thanks everyone for great comments. Warren, I understand what you are saying.
I guess then that I will modify my question as follows. Is the ultimate goal
of the IMAA (1) only that textbook publishers provide files in a standardized
electronic format as wanted by braille publishers or (2) also that there be
some quality assurance requirements on the process for producing these files?
If a publisher uses fully electronic publishing methods to produce their print
documents and then uses a possibly proprietary but automated and traceable
protocol to convert their in-house electronic files to the standardized format,
then the IMAA makes sense to me. An automated protocol would explain Liz's
comment about there being way less typos. (Actually there shouldn't be any
typos except those that are also in the print document.) A quantitative
measure of the quality of the protocol would be that you could take the file to
be used for braille transcription and back-convert it to the in-house
electronic files.
However, it seems that now in states that require publisher's files, the
publishers can meet the requirement to provide the file by scanning or retyping
or whatever they wish. This cannot help but produce errors and loss of
information.
Susan J.
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