a web interface for DAISY Pipeline

Introduction

The PipeOnline web application serves as a web interface for DAISY Pipeline. DAISY Pipeline is a framework for DAISY-related pipelined transformations. The DAISY Pipeline supports the migration of digital content to various formats efficiently and economically, facilitating both production and distribution of DAISY Digital Talking Books.

DTBookWord (RTF)

DAISY 3DTBook

Users

The advantages of PipeOnline

PipeOnline is a scalable production platform, reachable from anywhere.• Queue management gives the administrator total control of all executed jobs.• PipeOnline has a convenient user management where users and user rights easily

can be edited. • Royalties can be calculated based on the production of each user.

Access to high quality TTS• PipeOnline provides access to high quality TTS-voices for all users.

Decrease in production and distribution time• Server environment vastly decreases the production time for TTS-generated DAISY

content. • Distribution of DAISY content by e-mail gives major improvements in delivery time.

Decrease in production and distribution costsNo physical media is required to distribute productions, all is done conveniently by e-mail. PipeOnline supports both DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3 content.DAISY Pipeline provides both DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3 file sets.

New DAISY-standards can easily be implemented in PipeOnlineWhen the DAISY Pipeline core is updated, the same updates will be available in PipeOnline.

The advantages of PipeOnline

PipeOnline project enters maintenance mode...

• Considered stable for use in production• No new features are planned• Potential bugs are fixed as they comes

… but third-party adoption is welcome!

• PipeOnline can be deployed by another organization• 100% open source software• DAISY Consortium will help new users or developers

What’s next ?

A glimpse at the DAISY Pipeline future

Current version of the DAISY Pipeline• A 4-year-old project• Wide range of conversion, validation, manipulation functionality• Increasing adoption by the DAISY Community

Pipeline 2: Next Generation• Adoption of emerging standards and technologies (XProc,, XSLT 2, OSGi)• Reference implementation of the DAISY 4 revision• Better integration in heterogeneous environments• New core engine for the Pipeline front-ends: Pipeline Lite, PipeOnline, Pipeline UI

http://www.daisy.org/projects/pipeline