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Summary
Name	Daisy Talking Book Resource File
Version	3
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/2034
Family
Classification	Audio
Disclosure
Description	DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is a type of digital book format conceived in 1988 as a way of creating talking books for the visually impaired. The books are actually a package of interoperable files.The ncx file is the first file accessed since it lays out the navigation for the whole Daisy Talking Book.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	Has priority over Extensible Markup Language (1.0)
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	The DAISY Consortium / The DAISY Consortium
Supported by	The DAISY Consortium / The DAISY Consortium
Source	Brigham Young University / Brigham Young University
Source date	29 Jan 2025
Source description
Last updated	29 Jan 2025
Note	https://daisy.org/activities/standards/daisy/daisy-3/z39-86-2005-r2012-specifications-for-the-digital-talking-book/ https://www.niso.org/publications/ansiniso-z3986-2005-r2012-specifications-digital-talking-book https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2024/10/04/daisy/ https://github.com/digital-preservation/PRONOM_Research/tree/main/Submissions/Daisy