If you are a publisher who needs to locate a NIMAS conversion vendor, the NIMAC provides a free, self-listing page for companies that specialize in digital content conversion services:

• NIMAS Conversion Vendors

The three essential references for creating NIMAS files:

• NIMAS 1.1 Specification
• DAISY Structure Guidelines
• NIMAC Metadata Guidelines 2024 (available in English or Spanish)

Additional Metadata Resources:

• NIMAC Metadata Quick Guide
• NIMAC Metadata Checklist

More Resources for Preparing NIMAS:

• Resources for Writing Image Descriptions
• MathML: Special Reminders for NIMAS (available in English or Spanish)
• NIMAS Validation: Using the NIMAC Validation Wizard (PowerPoint available in English or Spanish)
• NIMAC Excel to OPF Template, Revised May 2019
• Guidance for Creating NIMAS Package PDFs for Digital Instructional Materials

NIMAS Basics:

• Creating NIMAS Files
• NIMAS Best Practices

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Best Practices for Creating NIMAS

This two-part webinar series (March 2021) highlights best practices for creating NIMAS file sets and explores the challenges unique to creating NIMAS for born-digital educational materials.

Creating NIMAS I: Best Practices & Avoiding Common Problems

You can also download the Powerpoint (available in English or Spanish) to keep for future reference!

Creating NIMAS II: The NOI and Digital Instructional Materials

You can also download the Powerpoints for the Notice of Interpretation (available in English or Spanish) and the NIMAC Exemplar for Digital Instructional Materials (available in English or Spanish) to keep for future reference!

Best Practices for Creating Tables of Contents

Utilizing examples from the DAISY Structure Guidelines, this short video goes over the correct XML formatting for NIMAS TOC.