[Asis-standards] Z39.98

[Baden Hughes]

Mark

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Baden

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Mark Needleman <mneedlem at ufl.edu> wrote:
> 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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