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- Badurina, Boris, et al.
(författare)
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Digital collection for blind and visually impaired people
- 2001
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Ingår i: Libraries in the digital age, The Internet: ethics and legal issues Information services - practice and research. - Zagreb.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The digital collection has been created to the purpose of ensuring better access to information for the blind and visually impaired. New technologies enable quick and simple access to information for this group of information users which had been so far restricted to slow and expensive process of material preparation (Braille texts, audio books, large print). Speech synthesis enables the blind to surf the World Wide Web and reach the information just as people who can see do. In order to make Internet retrieval efficient for all user categories (world statistics state that between 10% and 20% of population are people with different special needs), W3C Consortium has created guidelines (http://www.w3c.org/WAI/Resources) about ways in which web pages can be made accessible for all.
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- Bakran, Juraj, et al.
(författare)
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Reading rights
- 2000
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Ingår i: Intellectual property vs. the right to knowledge?. - Copenhagen : Royal School of Library and Information Science. - 8774152688 ; , s. 1-5
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The right to knowledge isn't questionable, only the ability to fulfil that right. Especially by the people with special needs, disabled people, in our case sight impaired and blind persons. Therefore the authors will talk about speech synthesis and ability to "read" books to sight impaired persons. The MBROLA speech synthesizer will be presented. Because nobody can deny any persons right to knowledge, the library and especially the National library has a duty to offer books to everybody who is interested in reading. The another thing that the authors will talk about is how to get books in digital form, which is needed for speech synthesis. The whole idea is making peace between intellectual property (authors) and right to knowledge (readers).
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- Gabriel, Dunja-Marija, et al.
(författare)
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Library services for users with special needs : the state of affairs in the Croatian capital and plans for the future
- 2001
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Ingår i: BOBCATSSS Open 2001 - Knowledge, information and democracy in the open society: The role of the library and information sector. - Vilnius : MND Publishing Centre. ; , s. 101-105
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Every person has the right to information and knowledge. Individuals who are not able to use conventional library services depend on information professionals as well as on information technology. According to goals of IFLA’s Section of Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons, authors would like to promote free access to information in Croatia. In order to start on the known basis, it has been decided that a research needs to be conducted with the aim of getting an exact picture of the state of affairs in the field of serving special needs users. It took place during the summer of 2000 in Zagreb and its surrounding area, which makes one quarter of the Croatian population. Hospitals, prisons, homes for the aged and associations for people with special needs were included in the research. Public and university libraries were also part of the research, but at a more superficial level. In the next phase in 2001 a more complex research will be conducted in order to examine them thoroughly. In the article the results of the research are presented. The assumptions with which we started were confirmed. These are: 1) libraries and library services for people with special needs are present but not for all groups of special needs users; 2) there is an interest in improving the quality of library services through co-operation with external libraries, particularly the public ones and other specialised libraries; 3) there is a lack of technological and software support, especially for access to electronic information resources. One of the most important reasons for the unsastisfactory state of affairs is absence of systematic legislative support. The existing llegislative regulations are also presented because they are considered to be the major basis for systematic services implementation. One of the conclusions of the last Croatian Library Association Assembly (held in September 2000) was to establish a working body within the Association, which would promote library services for people with special needs in Croatia. This would include establishment of effective co-operation with experts and various associations for people with special needs, regulation and standardisation of co-operative programmes of public libraries with hospitals, homes for the aged and prisons as well as programmes for people with mental problems. The working body would also organise courses for librarians for new adaptive technologies and special needs of the users.
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- Gabriel, Dunja-Marija, et al.
(författare)
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Mogućnosti primjene digitalnih izvora informacija za slijepe i slabovidne osobe : Digital resources for blind and visually impaired
- 2001
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Ingår i: 4. seminar Arhivi, knjižnice, muzeji: Mogućnosti suradnje u okruženju globalne informacijske infrastrukture : zbornik radova. - Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo. ; , s. 206-208
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- U okviru opće poznatog i prihvaćenog koncepta “knjižnice za sve” koji jasno govori o težnji ljudske zajednice za omogućavanjem univerzalne dostupnosti informacijama, željeli bismo prikazati mogućnosti koje u tom smislu pruža današnja tehnologija za jednu od kategorija korisnika s posebnim potrebama. Jedan od projekata koji se započeo razvijati na Odsjeku za fonetiku Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu obuhvaća mogućnost korištenja digitalne građe za slijepe i slabovidne osobe. Prišlo se izradi i razvoju softwarea za sintezu govora. pomoću kojeg se informacija u tekstu može preobraziti u sintetizirani govor koji ne podrazumijeva upotrebu ljudskog glasa. Ovo podrazumijeva postojanje dokumenata u digitalnom obliku koji se pomoću softwarea preoblikuju u zvuk. Ideja je da se oblikuje baza podataka sa digitalnim tekstovima koja se može izgrađivati na više načina, npr. povući postojeće mnogobrojne tekstove s World Wide Weba na jedno mjesto ili pri dodjeljivanju CIP zapisa u Nacionalnoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici zamoliti autore za autorsko pravo na digitalnu inačicu publikacije, uz ograničen broj korisnika. Korisnici digitalnu građu mogu koristiti putem računala s ugrađenim programom za sintezu govora ili uz hardverski dodatak -Brailleovu tastaturu. Za slabovidne je u razvoju i poseban browser BrailleSurf. Slijepe i slabovidne osobe do sada su imale na raspolaganju zvučne knjige i tiskovine na Brailleovom pismu. Njihova je proizvodnja spora i ograničena. Primjenom sustava sinteze digitalnog teksta u govor, omogućen je izravan pristup svježim informacijama u dnevnom tisku i novoizašlim monografijama ukoliko se ideja o suradnji CIP ureda s autorima ostvari. Sve ovo ostvarivo je kako u knjižnicama tako i u arhivima i muzejima, kao jedna od mogućnosti suradnje u okruženju globalne informacijske infrastrukture.
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