20 adibib aegis paper
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Project number: 224348Project acronym: AEGISProject title: Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, StandardsStarting date: 1 September 2008Duration: 48 MonthsAEGIS is an Integrated Project (IP) within the ICT programme of FP7TRANSCRIPT
A Customized Digital Library
For Students With Impairments
in Written Communication
Dirk Lembrechts, Jan Rottier
www.adibib.be
Digital Library
Adapted Digital Text Books (ADIBIB)
Elementary and secondary level
For text-to-speech software
Students with severe reading - writing disorders
Conversion to software independent tagged PDFfiles
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Past three years:
• From 15 tot 900 books
• From 250 to 1500 users
• In 2010-2011 10.000 books ordered
• Only two formats : most commonly used
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2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011
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1 july 2008 - 30 june 2009: 248
1 july 2009 - 30 june 2010: 1 240
1 july 2010 - 31 may 2011: 1 401
25% of users are secondary education students
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Unique
- Partnership (see next slide)
- Managed by a ‘trusted third party’
- Tool
- Broad target audience
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Publishers
• The six biggest (education)
• And their union
Software vendors
• The two biggest
• Quality of software is determining for quality of digital books
Organisation of audio books
• Extensive experience and capacity
Ministery of Education
• Structural financial support since September 2011
WIN-WIN
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Traget audience
Only attested
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia
- Visual disability
- Physical disability
- Special education
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New Tool
Software independent
Automatisation
Reducing of time : factor 5 to 10
(approximately 1 to 5 hours for one book)
Output: tagged PDF format
After automatic conversion: visual inspection
and correction
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book
pages
Conversion time
Sprint
Conversion time
Kurzweil
Bonjour les enfants 2+handboek
112 5:00 21 :45
Eventail junior bien sur 5 handboek
112 6:00 12:00
Concorde 1 TSO werkboek
169 2:00 7:30
FrancoFan 1werkboek 87 1:45 8:35
En scéne 1T - Leerwerkboek
576 19:45 70:30
Markant 2 – leerwerkboek(Nederl)
448 8:40 28:20
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Conversion software
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Tool for final visual inspection/correction
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- Sensitive
- Maximum security and minimum inconvenience
- Watermarked digital files (name student, school,
date)
- Every user of digital books has a paper version
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Book
available
on
website?
Yes
No
Ordering
Free (Only
shipping)
Burning
on cd Shipping
Request
to ADIBib
ADIBib to
publisher
Publisher
PDF to
ADIBIB
Automatic
and
manual
conversion
Book on
website
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- In 2012: more automation at all levels
- In 2012: digital download
- Low threshold
- User driven
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Broader goal group
Every education level (also higher education,
adult education, second change eductione, …)
Collaboration with more publishers, software
companies, …
More then 1000 new titels a year