DAISY Pipeline 2
an Overview

Romain Deltour

DAISY Annual General Meeting – June 12th 2013

An open-source, cross-platform framework for the automated production and maintenance of accessible content, efficiently and economically

http://daisy.org/pipeline2

A world map of DAISY members

Basic requirements

Versatility
Quality
Efficiency
Reasonable cost

A tale of two pipelines

Pipeline 1 ➙ Pipeline 2

The Pipeline 2 focus

EPUB 3 production
Content migration
Validation
Braille production
TTS-based production

Single-source publishing

Convert from a single XML master document to a variety of output formats

However a variety of different input XML formats can be used.

How it works

The pipeline engine communicates with its command line user interface, website or systems with an interoperable API

Use cases

As an internal component in a conversion tool chain

As a local application

As a public or private web site

The Pipeline 2 command-line tool user interface — As a command line tool

The Pipeline 2 Web user interface — As a web application

An open project

Open source license
Collaborative development
Hosted on Github
Mailing list + forums

You can make a difference!

Thank you!