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The Urakawa Project
Short name: urakawa
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About this project:
The Urakawa Project offers a SDK (Software Development Kit) to facilitate the development of authoring applications for accessible multimedia.
The Daisy consortium initiated this project with a totally "open" mindset: the goal is to support open-standards and to promote open-source software.
Daisy is a DTB (Digital Talking Book) standard (NISO), which is used by blind and visually impaired users to access structured text content.
Although the SDK is currently primarily focusing on supporting Daisy DTBs, the underlying authoring data model is extremely extensible thanks to a carefully-designed modular architecture.
The SDK is published in its abstract form: UML diagrams, data model, facade API (Application Programming Interface). In addition, a C++ reference implementation is planned. A C# implementation is already available.
The Urakawa project also hosts the Obi software application, which is a complete editor for audio-only Daisy books. Obi is written in C# and is of course available for free, like all of the Urakawa project's deliverables.
The Urakawa project developments are currently hosted at Sourceforge.net:
http://urakawa.sourceforge.net/
However, we are investigating the KnowledgeForge platform for our next development phase.
Watch this space !;)
Project licenses:
- General Public License (GPL)
Project members: (full member list)
- Daniel WECK (Administrator)
Project services: (full service list)