Only two percent of new books released in Germany are professionally edited for visually impaired people. However, more and more print publications are made available to the public in digital formats through online content delivery platforms like “libreka!”. The automatic conversion of such contents into DAISY would considerably increase the number of publications available in accessible formats. Still, most data available on “libreka!” is published as non-tagged PDF. In this paper, we examine the potential for automatic conversion of “libreka!”-based content into DAISY, while also analyzing the potentials and limitations of current conversion tools.

The goal of the project has been to investigate how room reservation systems should be designed so that booked rooms are utilized and so that ambiguities about booked rooms do not arise. User interfaces have been created through a prototype and algorithms have been designed and implemented. The Design Science method was utilized for activities related to prototypes and algorithms. Evaluation of the prototype involved conducting usability tests which have shown that the user interface is easy to use. Unit tests and integration tests have been applied to ensure that the implemented algorithms work properly. A survey was conducted to examine how an existing system and the proposed features are perceived. The results of the survey indicate that the identified problems are experienced by the respondents and that the proposed features are appreciated. More respondents would however have been desirable. Moreover, the results of the usability tests may differ if they are performed on a complete system. These tests should include people of different technical competence. Analysis of the algorithms mentions assumptions made during design, considerations for implementation and possible corrections. Analysis of the unit tests and integration tests mentions that they are limited in some aspects. Design Science has been useful for the project but has not always been perfect. Future work involves examining how authentication for the systems should be designed, developing a complete system that implements the proposed solutions, correcting the algorithms and gathering more data on how the proposed solutions and existing systems are perceived. / Projektets mål har varit att undersöka hur rumsreservationssystem ska utformas så att bokade rum nyttjas och så missförstånd om vilka rum som är bokade ej uppstår. För ändamålet har användargränssnitt skapats genom en prototyp och algoritmer har framställts och implementerats. Framställningen av prototyper samt konstruktion och implementering av algoritmer har skett enligt Design Science. Utvärdering av prototypen har inneburit genomförande av användbarhetstester som har visat att det föreslagna användargränssnittet är lättanvänt. Enhetstester och integrationstester har tillämpats upprepade gånger för att säkerställa att de implementerade algoritmerna fungerar korrekt. En enkätundersökning har genomförts för att ta reda på hur ett befintligt rumsreservationssystem och de föreslagna funktionerna uppfattas. Resultatet av enkätundersökningen tyder på att problemen som identifierats upplevs bland enkätdeltagarna och att de föreslagna funktionerna är eftertraktade. Projektets resultat tyder på att fler enkätdeltagare hade varit önskvärt och att användbarhetstestens resultat kan bli annorlunda om de genomförs på ett riktigt system samt att de bör innefatta personer av olika teknisk kompetens. Analys av algoritmerna nämner antaganden som gjorts för deras framställning, vad som bör tas i åtanke för deras implementation och korrigeringar som kan genomföras. Analys av enhetstesten och integrationstesten nämner att de är begränsade i vissa avseenden. Design Science har varit användbart för projektets syfte men har inte alltid varit perfekt. Framtida arbete innebär att ta reda på hur autentisering för systemen bör utformas, utveckla ett komplett system som implementerar lösningsförslagen, korrigera algoritmerna som framställts samt samla in mer data om hur lösningsförslagen och befintliga system uppfattas.

Inom rådgivningsbranschen finns ett ökat behov av bra hjälpmedel för att underlätta rådgivarnas arbete med dokumentation och arkivering av information som uppkommer vid rådgivningssituationer. Målet med examensarbetet var att kunna presentera en färdigställd iOS applikation som erbjuder en lösning på problemet med hjälp av ljudupptagningar. Utifrån en modellerad processbild över systemet togs en kravspecifikation fram. Metoden som användes i projektet har varit en Scrum inspirerad utvecklingsprocess. Först togs en prototyp fram med hjälp av en Storyboard. Därefter fick varje vy utgöra en sprint i utvecklingsprocessen. Utvecklingen skedde med hjälp av utvecklingsmiljön Xcode. De inbyggda verktygen för enhetstestning samt automatiserade gränssnittstester har använts för att säkerställa att funktionaliteten överensstämmer med kraven. Vid utvecklingen användes även tekniker för Objektorienterad design samt användning av designmönster som t.ex. Model, View, Controller (MVC).Resultatet blev en fullt funktionell iOS applikation som kommunicerar med en bakomliggande webbtjänst för att kunna erbjuda den efterfrågade funktionaliteten. Applikationen presenteras i ett stilrent och lättnavigerat grafiskt gränssnitt som är enkelt för användaren att använda. Applikationen erbjuder funktionalitet för att rådgivare skall kunna logga in i applikationen, söka efter kunder, se rådgivningshistorik, välja olika formulär och spela in rådgivningssamtal som sker med kunden. Slutligen säkerställer applikationen rådgivningen genom att ladda upp rådgivningsfilerna till webbtjänsten som arkiverar och distribuerar ljudfilerna till berörda parter. Applikationen finns tillgänglig för både iPhone och iPad och stödjer iOS-versioner från om med iOS 5 vilket gör att applikationen kan nå ca 98,5% av marknaden för dessa enheter. / In the counseling industry, there is a greater need for good tools to facilitate advisors work with documentation and archiving of information arising from the counseling situations. The aim of this thesis was to present a finalized iOS application that offers a solution to the problem by using sound recording. Based on a modeled process image of the system, a requirement specifi-cation was developed. The methodology of the project has been a Scrum inspired line of development. First a prototype was developed by using a Storyboard. Thereafter, each was represented by a sprint in the devel-opment process. The development was done using the development environment Xcode. The built-in tools for unit testing and automated interface testing has been used to ensure that the functionality complies with the requirements. The development also used techniques for objectoriented design and the use of design patterns, such as Model, View, Controller (MVC).The result was a fully functional iOS application that communicates with an underlying web service to provide the sought-after functionality. The application is presented in a stylish and easy-to-navigate graphical user interface that is easy for the user to use. The application pro-vides functionality for advisers to log in to the application, search for customers, see consultation history, choose different forms and record a consultation that takes place with a client. Finally, the application ensures the consultation by uploading the consultation files to the web service which archives and distributes audio files to interested parties. The application is available for both iPhone and iPad and supports iOS-versions as from iOS 5 which makes the application available for ap-proximately 98.5% of the market for these devices.

I många sammanhang är det önskvärt att importera data från textfiler, excelfiler och liknande till en databas. För detta krävs att data i något skede översätts till en ER-modell (Entity Relationship), en modell som beskriver relevanta delar i ett databasschema. Modellen för hur denna översättning ser ut varierar från fall till fall. I det här examensarbetet har en applikation tagits fram för import av data till en ER-modell ur ett modellperspektiv i linje med Model Driven Architecture (MDA) ™. Vinsten ligger i att använda en metamodell som beskriver hur olika modeller för transformering från tabelldata till en ER-modell får se ut. Modellerna i sin tur beskriver hur transformeringen ska se ut. På så sätt kan flera olika modeller användas utan att ändringar i källkoden behöver göras. Metamodellen som beskriver transformeringen har visualiserats i ett klassdiagram. Klassdiagrammet beskriver schematiskt sambanden mellan tabeller som data ska importeras ifrån och den ER-modell som data ska överföras till. Metamodellen har transformerats till ett XML-schema.  Modellerna som ska användas har skrivits i en XML-fil som följer den transformerade metamodellen. / In many situations it is desirable to import data from text files, excel files and similar to a database. To do so the data needs to be translated at some stage to an ER model (Entity Relationship), i.e. a model describing relevant parts of a database schema. The approach for this translation varies from case to case. During this thesis an application has been developed to import data to an ER model from a modeling perspective, in line with the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) ™. The gain lies in using a metamodel that describes how different models for transformation from grid tables to an ER mode may look like. The models in turn describe how the transformation will look, thus allowing the usage of several different models without any need of changes to the source code. The metamodel describing the transformation of data can be visualized in a class diagram. The class diagram schematically describes the relationships between tables of data to be imported from and the ER model the data will be transferred to. Preferable is to write a model in an XML that conforms to the metamodel. Therefore the class diagram should be transformed into an XML schema that enables validation of the model in the XML file.

The sports timetabling problem is a combinatorial optimization problem that consists of creating a timetable that defines against whom, when and where teams play games. This is a complex matter, since real-life sports timetabling applications are typically highly constrained. The vast amount and variety of constraints and the lack of generally accepted benchmark problem instances make that timetable algorithms proposed in the literature are often tested on just one or two specific seasons of the competition under consideration. This is problematic since only a few algorithmic insights are gained. To mitigate this issue, this article provides a problem instance repository containing over 40 different types of instances covering artificial and real-life problem instances. The construction of such a repository is not trivial, since there are dozens of constraints that need to be expressed in a standardized format. For this, our repository relies on RobinX, an XML-supported classification framework. The resulting repository provides a (non-exhaustive) overview of most real-life sports timetabling applications published over the last five decades. For every problem, a short description highlights the most distinguishing characteristics of the problem. The repository is publicly available and will be continuously updated as new instances or better solutions become available.

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As result of the Contrapunctus European project the design of the Braille Music Mark-up as an XML representation of a music scores in Braille has been carried out. We propose a design of a prototype system for translating these kinds of files into spoken music encoded in DAISYXML. In this way any blind musician may be able to memorize any Braille score using a DAISY reader. Therefore the dependency of reading BMML files in front of a computer would be eliminated. This is a first work on feasibility which will be improved and managed by a working group.

This thesis deals with the web form automatization. It contains a short introduction to the HTML and XHTML markup languages and their facilities for the definition of forms. Next, there is a short overview of the HTTP protocol and XML markup language and a method of the form description using XML is proposed. The thesis contains a description of tool for creating XML file from HTML document and a description of a data sender tool using a CSV data file and an XML form description. Next, there is a description of the algorithms used in the implementation. The conclusion includes the achieved results and the improvements for the future.

ViewPlus is collaborating with the American Physical Society (APS), DAISY, and several other companies and agencies to enable APS to publish its scientific journals in the highly accessible DAISY XML format. All text, math, and figures will be accessible to everybody, including people with print disabilities. The first experimental APS DAISY publications are targeted for 2010. All APS journals will eventually be published in DAISY form, and other scholarly publishers are expected to follow suit.

Large scale production of accessible media above and beyond DAISY Talking Books requires management of the workflow from the initial scan to the output of the media production. DAISY Producer was created to help manage this process. It tracks the transformation of hard copy or electronic content to DTBook XML at any stage of the workflow and interfaces to existing order processing systems. Making use of DAISY Pipeline and Liblouis, DAISY Producer fully automates the generation of on-demand, user-specific DAISY Talking Books, Large Print and Braille. This paper introduces DAISY Producer and shows how creators of accessible media can benefit from this open source tool.