DAISY SDK - Multimedia Authoring Toolkit

Release 1.0 beta - 25 January 2008

This is the official 1.0-beta release document for the "DAISY SDK - Multimedia Authoring Toolkit", otherwise known as the "Urakawa Software Development Kit" (which remains the active developer codename).

This open-source software is available for free under the business-friendly LGPL license.

Deliverables

Abstract Data Model and API

• Reference Guide
• API (Application Programming Interface) documentation:
  • as a ZIP archive
  • for online browsing
• UML Class Diagrams (large images):
  • as a ZIP archive
  • in the SVN repository
• Source Code
  • for online browsing
  • local SVN checkout

CSharp (C#) Reference Implementation

• C#-specific API documentation:
  • as a ZIP archive
  • for online browsing
• Binaries (for Microsoft .NET):
  • as a ZIP archive
  • as direct downloads
• Source Code
  • for online browsing
  • local SVN checkout

Support

• Please visit the Urakawa project website on Sourceforge.net.
• The Urakawa project also has a homepage at Daisy.org, essentially to confirm the affiliation under the DAISY Consortium (the content there is mainly static).
• Sourceforge.net provides a developer page for issue-tracking, mailing-lists, etc.

Known Issues

This beta release has a frozen feature-set, but there are Quality Assurance issues that will be addressed for the stable release (tentatively planned for the second half of February).

There is ongoing work publicly available in the SVN repository:

• C# Unit-tests coverage is insufficient.
• Incomplete UML Sequence Diagrams for the C# XUK (de-)serialization process.
• Some comments in the Java-written API need improvements.
• Some UML Class Diagrams are too big for printing.