By BookGenie
02/18/2011
When these words come
to your mind it is obvious to wonder what they are.
What
is NIMAS Conversion?
NIMAS is the proposed format which will facilitate
the provision of accessible, alternate format versions of print textbooks to
PreK-12 students with disabilities.
What is DAISY Conversion?
DAISY which commonly known as Digital Accessible Information System provides
the technical protocol for creating accessible digital versions of print works.
Guidelines for special
education instructional material have been proposed by the National
Instructional Material Accessibility Standards (NIMAS).
Similarly DAISY consortium has proposed guidelines for conversion of source
files into XML format that enables the publishers to develop audio books and
digital talking books. Children with visual impairment and learning
disabilities cannot cope with other children unless they qualify themselves
through education reading a traditional print book is difficult and
understanding is still more difficult for them.
These types of
conversions have to follow NIMAS standards and then only they can be formatted
in such a design with contents to follow the stipulations. Once they are
converted into the standard format for teaching skills like learning through
work book and learning mathematics are few of the toughest areas where NIMAS
conversion is extensively used.
The National
Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) has the objective that
instructional materials should be accessible for the children with impaired
vision and learning disabilities. NIMAS guidelines used to convert in the input
educational material into XML source files. Publishers submit the resulting NIMAS
file sets to National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC). These
source files are then accessed by the educational department authorities to
convert them into Braille books, large print, and digital talking books.
BookGenie
has extensively worked with K-12 book publishers, STM Publishers and Trade
Publishers. Due to the high expectation of standards, publishers are required
to provide quality books to consumers, huge
potential exists for them to produce digital and Braille content in a more cost
effective and expeditious manner. Special conversion standards make the people
with impaired vision to learn as quickly as normal children do. Readers are
engaged in the special books and by listening they can answer the question and acquire
knowledge quickly. Digital Accessible Information System, DAISY DTB is
collection of a set of digital files that may contain digital audio recordings
of human or synthetic speech, marked up text and a range of machine-readable
files. Once they hear the Digital Talking Books (DTBs) of the workbooks, they
can grasp it easily.
Through BookGenie’s in-house DTD
development and API integration, these complex conversions are simplified for
the publishers. Publishers may not have the skills and time to develop APIs and
development of DTD and we have got experience in XML and SGML conversions.
Independent of the
operating systems, Windows, or Linux, these conversions has been modified by us
in such a way so that these books can be read through conventional reading
devices also. BookGenie
is using the latest new format for DAISY conversion to give more advantages for
the publishers. API integration is helpful for publishers as it is useful in
serving end users to service providers. Our conversions result in flexibility
with all the readers used in these special instructional materials.
About BookGenie:
BookGenie
is one of the renowned solution providers in content management and content
transformation pre publishing services. Publishers and online libraries get the
best support for the services like e publishing, digital typesetting, data
conversion, content management solutions, DTD development, scanning and
imaging. BookGenie
provides best support in forms processing, OCR capture, digital imaging, data
mining, ebook conversion, epub conversion, online book publishing and journal
publishing.
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