Modern digital libraries, the case of the audio-book boom

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5105 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 284-290

  Engelen, Jan ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIBRARIES;

COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LONG TIME; LOW VISION; SPECIAL NEEDS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 50249131343     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. Arato, A., Buday, L., Vaspori, T.: Hybrid Books for Blind - a New Form of Talking Books, lecture at ICCHP 1996. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference Interdisciplinary Aspects on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Schriftenreihe der Oesterreichischen Computer Ges., Linz, Band 87 (part 1) (July 1996) ISBN 3-85403-087-8
2. Daisy consortium, http://www.daisy.org
3. The medium to use is not part of the Daisy standard. The CD-ROM format is described in the Yellow Book, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Book_%28CD- ROM_standards%29
4. Audible.com: After having been a minority shareholder for some years, Amazon.com fully acquired Audible.com on January 31 (2008), http://www.audible. com
5. The Audio CD format Red Book was developed in 1980 by Philips & Sony for high quality music recordings and specifies a maximum playing time of 78 minutes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28audio_CD_standard%29
6. Paepen, Bert.: AudioKrant, the daily spoken newspaper. In: Proceedings of the 11th Electronic Publishing Conference, ELPUB, Toronto (July 2008), http://elpub.scix.net (Open Access)
7. Lecticus audiobook shop, http://www.lecticus.nl
8. Brazier, Helen.: The Role and Activities of the IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section. Library Trends 55(4), 864-878 (2007)
9. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven- Docarch group: http://www.docarch.be, @Science project: http://www.ascience.eu/, Infovisie: http://www.infovisie.eu Braillekrant: http://www.braillekrant.be