[Athen] text-only DAISY conversion

[Heidi Scher]

Happy Monday all!

So I'm wondering why full DAISY so popular with our students and not with
coastal students?  Hm.........

Heidi



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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director
Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
ARKU 104
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
479.575.3646 tdd
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On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Dann Berkowitz <dann at digilifemedia.biz>
wrote:


> Don't get too excited Wink ... Adam and I developed a pretty good system

> for building DTB files, but as Sean noted, DAISY as a format has not gained

> as much usage as we all hoped.

>

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> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:15 PM, foreigntype <foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> Hahahaha! We should discuss how to do this at AHG ---we could get rich

>> and retire.

>>

>> ;>)

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>> Wink Harner

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>> foreigntype at gmail.com

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>> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu]

>> *On Behalf Of *Heidi Scher

>> *Sent:* Friday, September 05, 2014 9:07 AM

>>

>> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

>> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] text-only DAISY conversion

>>

>>

>>

>> Hey there, Sean,

>>

>> According to the tech at Bookshare, they use the Save As DAISY plug-in.

>> So not sure why we can't get it to work but they can. For GoRead, it

>> doesn't want all the SMIL files either. But since we're swamped right now,

>> I've moved on since my MacGyver solution has worked!  But, if things ever

>> slow down, I'll revisit the issue - unless someone else can figure out what

>> we haven't.

>>

>> Wink, I SOOOO wish we had an easy button for conversion!

>>

>> Heidi

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>> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC

>> Associate Director

>> Center for Educational Access

>> University of Arkansas

>> ARKU 104

>> Fayetteville, AR 72701

>> 479.575.3104

>> 479.575.7445 fax

>> 479.575.3646 tdd

>> +++++++++++++++

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>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Sean Keegan <skeegan at stanford.edu> wrote:

>>

>> Hi Heidi,

>>

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>>

>> From what I understand about the DAISY XML file produced by the Save As

>> DAISY plugin is that it is not exactly a text-only DAISY DTB as it is

>> lacking  the NCX or SMIL files. It is, essentially, a precursor to

>> producing a DTB. That said, most DAISY reading apps can handle a DAISY XML

>> file. Perhaps the issue is that the Go Read app will only support a

>> complete DAISY 3 DTB and not the DAISY XML file?

>>

>>

>>

>> Glad you were able to get it to work with the ePub conversion with

>> Calibre. It's probably what MacGyver would use instead of his swiss army

>> knife if he did alt media production...

>>

>>

>>

>> Take care,

>>

>> Sean

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>> On Sep 4, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Heidi Scher <hascherdss at gmail.com> wrote:

>>

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>> Thank you everyone for the feedback!  I'm passing every little tidbit

>> along to our lab coordinator.

>>

>> I need to clarify a couple of points. We are not converting Bookshare

>> books, but are converting the student's course materials. We already do

>> full DAISY as most all of our students love using full DAISY.  I'm not

>> having trouble converting to text-only DAISY. The files are converting and

>> work fine with AMIS. BUT, for students who want to use the GoRead DAISY app

>> for Android, the text-only DAISY that works in AMIS does not work in

>> GoRead.

>>

>> Yesterday I got a wild hair and decided to go a different route. I

>> combined all the Word Docx files that we use for DAISY conversion into one

>> large file. Then ran it through Calibre for ePub. AND...drumroll....it now

>> reads out loud in GoRead!

>>

>> Just more information to put into our arsenal for future reference!

>>

>> Thank you again one and all!

>>

>> Heidi

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>> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC

>> Associate Director

>> Center for Educational Access

>> University of Arkansas

>> ARKU 104

>> Fayetteville, AR 72701

>> 479.575.3104

>> 479.575.7445 fax

>> 479.575.3646 tdd

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>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Ron Stewart <ron at ahead.org> wrote:

>>

>> That may be an option, and it still works. Unfortunately Kris is no

>> longer supporting it as far as I am aware.

>>

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>> Ron Stewart

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>> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu]

>> *On Behalf Of *Gaeir Dietrich

>> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 03, 2014 2:29 PM

>> *To:* 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'

>>

>>

>> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] text-only DAISY conversion

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>> You can also use Tech Adapt’s free TAMC program:

>>

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>> http://accessiblemediacenter.techadapt.com/

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>>

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>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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>> Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich

>> 408-996-6047 or 408-996-4636

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>> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

>> Behalf Of *Neal Sorensen

>> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:19 PM

>> *To:* athen-list at u.washington.edu

>> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] text-only DAISY conversion

>>

>>

>>

>> Hello Heidi,

>>

>>

>>

>> Bookshare books are surprisingly easy to convert to Text Only.  Here’s a

>> quick how-to…

>>

>>

>>

>> 1.       Unzip the file downloaded from Bookshare, and open the

>> extracted folder.

>>

>> 2.       Look for the file ending in .XML and open it in an internet

>> browser (I recommend Firefox)

>>

>> 3.       Copy the full text from the browser and paste it into a word

>> processor.

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>> 4.       Breathe easy

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>> XML file contains the full text, often with Images, with some rich text

>> formatting and pages indicated.  XML usually contains styles too, but I

>> don’t think that is included in the Bookshare XML.

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>> I have noticed that newer versions of Mac OS X have had compatibility

>> issues with Bookshare software.  Read:OutLoud hasn’t run successfully for

>> me in almost a year on Macs.  This is the best method I have discovered for

>> working around that issue, and still using Bookshare content with those

>> students.

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>> Hope this helps!

>>

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>>

>> Neal Sorensen

>>

>> Specialist of Assistive Technology

>>

>> Office of Disability Resources

>>

>> Naropa University: Boulder, CO

>>

>> nsorensen at naropa.edu

>>

>> Phone: 303-546-3560

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>> The Machine is Us/ing Us:

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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

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>> "A wonderful exploration of how new types of text are changing the world…"

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>> Hi all,

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>>

>>

>> This semester we've had several students who are needing text-only DAISY

>> so that they can access DAISY on their Android devices.  Is anyone out

>> there converting to text-only DAISY? We've been in contact with Bookshare

>> and they use the Save As DAISY plug-in for Word. But we aren't having any

>> luck getting that to work.

>>

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>>

>> Anyone have any ideas??

>>

>>

>>

>> Thanks in advance!!

>>

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>>

>> Heidi

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