DAISY & NIMAS Structure Guidelines

The DAISY Structure Guidelines are hosted by the DAISY Consortium. The new Structure Guidelines (SG) for DAISY 3 include mark-up information for NIMAS, along with numerous examples and best practices guidelines. The NIMAS section of the SG was prepared by gh LLC under a sub-contract to the AIM and NIMAS centers at CAST.

The SG is described by the DAISY Consortium as follows: "This document provides information on the correct application of the XML element set DTBook, a key segment of the DAISY/NISO standard, formally the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 standard, Specifications for the Digital Talking Book. Links to the standard and information on its development and use can be found at http://www.daisy.org/z3986/. When a DAISY/NISO DTB (henceforth referred to as DAISY DTB) includes a textual content file containing part or all of the contents of a publication, DTBook elements will be used to mark up that file. The resulting file must be valid to the XML Document Type Definition, the DTBook DTD, as specified in the DAISY/NISO Specification. The file will be synchronized with the corresponding audio file to allow synchronized presentation of content in multiple formats (audio, braille, enlarged type, etc.)."