TEI Council Conference Call 25 Apr 06
Times are UTC unless otherwise noted.
Started at 12:07 with SB, DB, LB, JC, MD, SR, SS JW, CW, and MZ present. CT had sent mail stating he was ill and could not attend; AB sent mail as call was supposed to start stating not only would he not be present, but that he was resigning from Council.
Contents
Previous Minutes
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LB: Ensure [JC's P5 HOWTO] is
easily accessible from P5 portion of website LB
reports done. Editors & SR reported that subsequent
to moving from use of
CVS to use of Subversion (SVN) as content management
system at
Sourceforge, we are in the process of reorganizing the
file structure, chiefly to facilitate the inclusion of
internationalized version of the Guidelines.
Action 1: eds.Resolve remaining unresolved issues about new file organization at Sourceforge asap, and report on status at Kyoto Council meetingAction 2: JC update HOWTO to reflect the new structure and check that the discussion of SVN procedures introduced in it are all correct. as soon as structure decided
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All: Review SO
Outputs Council agreed that SO outputs contain a lot of good, useful stuff,
much of which needs to be migrated to the
Guidelines. Some of the material had been already
incorporated but not yet fully reviewed; other parts it
was felt would need a fuller technical discussion. One item discussed at some length on the
call was the suggestion to use elements from the SVG
namespace as the content of
<figure>
Action 3: SB update his report on SO output documents http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2005/001163.html to include recommended dispositions, as a working paper for discussion in Kyoto. 2006-05-08
- CT or DP: post to TEI-MS-SIG or TEI-L requesting input DT & CT both absent, so discussion of this item was deferred
- CW w/ LB's help: create list of modules needing ‘class’ attention CW reports this action has been completed
- CW: assign modules to Council members CW reports this action has been completed; LB had posted a summary of input received so far together with suggested dispositions, to be reviewed later on the agenda.
- SB: post a pointer to the minutes of [DLF-TEI] meeting SB reported DLF's minutes not yet available, but expected later this week.
- SB: bundle up 0.3.1 for oXygen SB reports that this item was accomplished almost immediately — it was easier than anticipated, as SyncRO Soft was able to do much of it themselves. Thus oXygen 7.1 comes with TEI 0.3.1.
Physical Bibliography Workgroup
LB expressed concern that the chair of this workgroup appeared to be working in isolation, with only a few comments from JF appearing on the list. The material posted was of a very specialist nature, reflecting the expertise of the PB group, but seemed to lack input from TEI experts.
Personography
MD reported that a meeting to discuss the working paper prepared by Eva-Wedervang-Jensen will meet in Oxford in two day's time. He is hoping to have a report, perhaps even with a concrete proposal, available for Council to consider in Kyoto.
- Gabriel Bodard, CCH, King's
- John Bradley, CCH, King's
- Lou Burnard, OUCS
- Charles Crowther, Classics, Oxford
- James Cummings, OUCS
- Matthew Driscoll, Arnamagnæan Institute
- Elaine Matthews, Classics, Oxford
- Fiona Oliver, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, NZ
- Sebastian Rahtz, OUCS
- Paul Spence, CCH, King's
- Eva Wedervang-Jensen, Arnamagnæan Institute
Class Struggle
Council reviewed TC W 07. This summarizes issues raised by individual ‘reviewers’ of modules, together with suggested dispositions provided by the editors. It was noted that this document did not include comments made by SS and DP on the transcription module, which had not been received; also that some of the modules assigned had not yet been commented on.
Reviewing outstanding modules, the following assignments were agreed:
LB agreed to incorporate this material into the document as soon as it was received. Council was requested to consider two major issues raised so far: the need for a class representing a simpler subset of phrase-level elements for use in the header and other meta-data-like places; the need for a class similar to the existing att.Spanning for use in all cases where "Horse-like" markup was proposed.
It was agreed that the att.Spanning class should be used for all cases of cross-structure pointing, but noted that the present proposal (used only in the <index> element) needed further development.
In answer to a query from SB, LB explained that <g> was needed within <c> since the latter referred to a lexical character which might be represented as a combination of Unicode and non-unicode characters.
Meeting in Kyoto
We will be meeting at the Kyoto International Community House, which is 2-3 subway stops from the hotels at which we will be staying. We will be housed in two separate hotels near to each other, as there was not enough room in any one hotel.
Council thanks CW and his colleagues for organizing the meeting.
