Hello Access Indians Greetings Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur is running a project “Creating Accessible Study Materials for the Print Impaired Students”. Under this project, IIT will identify 50 books from English and Hindi each and 25 books from Bengali, Assamese, Marathi and Tamil each. This would be 1st phase of this project and after successful deployment of 1st phase, iit will will continue this project with more books and languages. For digitalization of these books, IIT Kharagpur needs help of agency who can can convert books in Microsoft word according to “Save as daisy” Specifications. I request all of you to see these specification and revert back to me directly if you or any other NGO/Agency want to do this conversion process. I am pasting the tender file below this e-mail. Alternatively you can check http://www.cel.iitkgp.ernet.in/asm/index.php (project website) for more details and tender notice Tender Notice MHRD Sponsored project "Creating Accessible Study Materials for Print Impaired Students", carried out at IIT Kharagpur.
Quotations are invited from agencies willing to take up the following conversion job. They should provide their expertise and resources available in the particular language(s). Initial training will be provided at four locations (to be decided later) on the above conversion job, agencies willing to participate should indicate. Scanning/typing from Print books in English, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Marathi and Tamil. Volume of work: Maximum of 50 books each in English and Hindi, 25 books each in the other four languages, average approximate 350 pages per book. Basic Steps of conversion for books in English: Scanning, 1st Proofreading and Corrections, Mark up (XML), Final Proofreading and Corrections. Steps of conversion for books in Indian languages: Typing, 1st Proofreading and Corrections, Mark up (XML), Final Proofreading and Corrections. Specifications for conversion (minor modifications may be made later): 1. Operating System: MS Windows XP or later, support for regional and language settings must be installed 2. Software: MS Office XP or later with DAISY plug-in (save as DAISY option) OR Open Office 3.0 or later with DAISY plug-in (save as DAISY option) 3. Typing should be in built in fonts of windows. (No third party software or fonts should be used in typing) 4. The Headings and Sub-Headings should be formatted using built-in Heading Styles (DAISY books support Heading Level only up to level 7) 5. The heading should always be on one line. This line should contain the following: The word "Chapter", chapter number and the title of the chapter. For example: Chapter 1: Basics of Programming 6. The page numbering of the print document should match that of the computer file 7. Type the number of each page at the top (do not insert the page numbers automatically) 8. Abbreviations should be edited to their full forms 9. Header and Footer should be deleted 10. Bulleted lists should be prepared using the MS word bullets and numbering feature. The list with numbering should be generated using the auto number feature of the MS word. 11. Tables should be prepared using the insert table command. 12. Footnotes are to be inserted using the MS word footnote insertion command. 13. All column breaks are to be removed. 14. Alternate texts have to be provided to all images. 15. Special tags will have to be given to following elements Book title tag: book title or title or heading level 1 Author tag: author (daisy) Page number tag: page number (daisy) Note: no other style or tag should be given to above elements 16. Hyperlinks will have to be removed from the whole document Rates should be quoted for carrying out the above conversion job following all specifications, per 1000 character (including spaces), desired correctness is 99%. Quotes to be sent by email to: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Hardcopies can be sent to: Assistant Registrar SRIC IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 721302. Thanks Anubhav Mitra To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
