Digital Odyssey Presentation Planning

What is Decapod (1pg)
Who is Decapod (1pg)
- A word on us
- A word on the partners
Goals (problems we're addressing): (1pg)
- Ease of use
- Inexpensive
- Efficient
- in-situ - keep materials in place, portable unit
- Non-destructive - preserves fragile material
Users & application (1pg)
- Users
  - staff, volunteers
  - non-experts
- Application
  - small to medium paper archives
  - with rare or unique material
Features and implications (3pg)
Output (2pg)
- TIFFs (archivability)
- PDFs (general use)
- characteristics:
  - re-flowable: huge implications--readable in original form, but also a mobile device (can change layout but preserve flow), screen magnifiers, large-format displays, screen readers, websites to use content, etc.
- different levels of fidelity: raster vs. font generation (original vs. re-layed out)
Design and development process (2pg)
- UCD (involvement of users in process)
- Separation between engine and UI
  - Talk a bit about architecture and future possibilities with other UIs/workflows
Final envisioned product (1-2pg)
- Picture of the setup
- Description (incl. how it's supposed to be suitcase fittable)
- software setup (Linux distro that boots directly into Decapod)