Attachment J4 - SPEC 1207.pdf

Specification 1207: 2025

Braille Deliverable Package

Version 2.2 June 2025

NLS Spec No. 1207:2025 Dec 2024

Revision History

Revision Issue Date Change Description Rev. 1.0 06/20/2009 Initial Release Rev. 2.0 8/30/2021 delivery package & system updated to PICS-2 requirements Rev 2.1 Unified

Rev 2.1 12/12/2024 Updates to reference information

Table of Contents

1. Scope

2. Reference Documents

2.1. Specifications 4

3. Deliverable Package Requirements

3.1. Contents of the Deliverable Package 6

3.2. File Names 6

4. Delivery Requirements

4.1. Delivery System: 7

4.2. Access Requirements: 7

1. Scope

This specification defines the requirements for the Braille package file delivered to the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress (NLS). Braille material produced for NLS shall be packaged and delivered according to the requirements of this specification.

2. Reference Documents

The following documents and publications form a part of this specification. In the event of conflict between the documents and publications referenced herein and the content of this specification, the content of this specification shall be considered a superseding requirement.

2.1. Specifications

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2002

Specifications for the Digital Talking Book

The document cited above is available from:

American National Standards Institute, Inc.

25 West 43rd St.

4th Floor New York, NY 10036 Tel: (212) 642-4900 Fax: (212) 398-0023 http://www.daisy.org/z3986/specifications/Z39-86-2002.html

DAISY Consortium

DAISY Protected Digital Talking Book Specification, Version 2.0 http://www.daisy.org/projects/pdtb/daisy-pdtb-spec.html

National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled

NLS Specification 1201 Narration

NLS Specification 1202 Digital Talking Book Mastering

NLS Specification 1203 Construction of Digital Talking Books

NLS Specification 1205 Protected Digital Talking Book

NLS Specification 1208 Preparation of Audio Files from Commercial Audiobooks http://www.daisy.org/z3986/specifications/Z39-86-2002.html http://www.daisy.org/projects/pdtb/daisy-pdtb-spec.html

NLS Document QA201801 Instructions for Applying Navigation Markers to Digital Talking Books

The document cited above are available from:

Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled 101 Independence Ave., S.E (mail stop #4960) Washington, DC 20540-4960 http://www.loc.gov/nls/specs/

PKWARE Inc.

Zip File Format Specification

The document cited above is available from:

PKWARE, Inc.

648 N. Plankinton Avenue, Suite 220 Milwaukee, WI 53203 https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/APPNOTE/APPNOTE-6.2.0.txt http://www.loc.gov/nls/specs/ https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/APPNOTE/APPNOTE-6.2.0.txt

3. Deliverable Package Requirements

A single ZIP file shall be delivered to NLS.

The deliverable package ZIP file shall be an uncompressed storage container, ZIP compression is prohibited.

The deliverable package ZIP file shall be readable by the UNIX program “unzip” version 5.3.2

3.1. Contents of the Deliverable Package

The deliverable package file shall contain the following files:

a) A BOPF file.

b) One or more BRF files.

c) An MD5 checksum file.

No other files or directories are acceptable in the deliverable package.

3.2. File Name

All alphabetic characters shall be lowercase.

The production identifier assigned to the Braille material according to section 3.2 of NLS specification 806 (current version) shall be used for the filenames.

The deliverable package file shall be named “x.pkg.zip” where “x” is the production identifier.

3.3. Checksum file

An XML file shall be created containing a checksum for each file in the publication as specified in section 3.1 except for the MD5 file itself. All the files listed in the checksum file shall be present in the single zip container file used for transmission of the publication as described in NLS Specification 1207. The checksum shall be calculated using the MD5 algorithm as described in the reference cited in Section 2.1 and shall be in the form of 32 hexadecimal digits. The checksums shall be generated from the source files prior to their packaging and transmission. This checksum file does not form part of the publication and thus shall not be listed in the BOPF manifest. The checksums contained in the checksum file must be identical to the checksums calculated from the source files and to those calculated from the corresponding files extracted from the zip container file. The format of the XML file is described by the following DTD, which shall be placed at the beginning of each checksum file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE diskcheck [ <!ELEMENT diskcheck (book, file+)> <!ATTLIST diskcheck version CDATA #FIXED "1.0" > <!ELEMENT book (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT file (filename, checksum)>

<!ATTLIST file type CDATA #IMPLIED content CDATA #IMPLIED > <!ELEMENT filename (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT checksum (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST checksum type CDATA #REQUIRED>

The contents of <book> element shall match the UID as found in the content of the BOPF dc:Identifier.

The <filename> element shall contain the name of the file for which the checksum is calculated. The “type” attribute on the <checksum> element shall contain the value “MD5.”

4. Delivery Requirements

4.1. Delivery System

The deliverable package file as required in section 3 shall be delivered to NLS using the Transfer Portal delivery system at the following URL:

https://transfer.nlsbph.org/TransferPortal/upload.html

4.2. Access Requirements

An NLS Single Sign-On account is required to use the Transfer Portal. To obtain access the contractor shall submit an access request application to the contract COR containing the following information:

• Personnel Details:

o First Name o Last Name o Email Address o Phone Number

• Contract Details:

o Contractor Name o Contract Number o COR o Final Delivery Date of Contract

• Company Details:

o Physical Address o CIDR IP Range / IP Address(es) for Whitelisting https://transfer.nlsbph.org/TransferPortal/upload.html