[Asis-standards] Z39.98

[Mark Needleman]

A new NISO standard is up for a vote:

"NISO Z39.98-201X, Authoring and Interchange Framework for Adaptive XML 
Publishing Specification

 From the NISO page:

This is a ballot to approve the standard NISO Z39.98-201x, Authoring and 
Interchange Framework for Adaptive XML Publishing Specification for 
publication as an American National Standard. (If approved by the NISO 
members of this voting pool, ANSI approval will be needed prior to 
publication.)



This standard defines how to create conformant profiles for representing 
digital information resources in XML to produce documents suitable for 
transformation into different universally accessible formats. This 
modular, extensible architecture permits the creation of any number of 
content representation models and does not impose limitations on what 
distribution formats can be created from it, e.g., e-text, Braille, 
large print, and EPUB.



As a reminder, this standard was originally developed as a revision to 
ANSI/NISO Z39.86, Specifications for the Digital Talking Book (DTB). 
Feedback from the draft for trial use indicated that the changes, while 
needed, were substantial and that content developers and e-reader 
manufacturers would like to retain the existing DTB standard as a valid 
standard while they worked to transition to the new specification, which 
should be treated as a new standard. The Content and Collection 
Management Topic Committee thus approved the assignment of a new 
standard designation to this document. (The older standard Z39.86 has 
since been reaffirmed for another five years.)

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I have attached a copy of the trial use to this message. I dont need 
comments or a proposal for a vote unto June 1 - but certainly you are 
welcome to send it comments whenever you want

mark


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