TEI Council Conference Call 23 Jan 07
Times are UTC unless otherwise noted.
Started ~12:06. Meeting participants were LB, CW, SB, SR, AC, CT, DO, TM, LR, JW, DB, DP, and a mysterious tennis player.
Contents
Minutes from last meeting
- SB: summarize issues surrounding dating attributes …
- SB reports this action was finally completed last night
Action 1: all read & comment on SB's post date attributes: summary, problems, and some suggestions 2006-02-06
- LB: statement of 'limited phrase' problem …
- SB reminded Council that this had been determined to
be a false action immediately after the last call. LB
reminded Council that SB had proposed two possible paths forward
in post
oops; I mis-led y'all on 'limited
phrase' task of labeled
‘A’ and ‘B’; SR, CW, and CT all voted for
‘B’, and no one objected. Action 2: SB implement limited phrase 2007-02-14
- all: read & comment on JW's revised document
- JW's document recommends that
<biblItem>
be
replaced with a different mechanism (
<relatedItem>
)
for encoding the relationship of one bibliographic item to
another. While no one objected in principle, both SB &
LR requested more time to discuss the proposal to ensure
that the capabilities of the current
<biblItem>
are
retained.
Action 3: LR & LB discuss <relatedItem> on the Council list [?...?] is this due date for discussion or implementation [?...?] 2007-02-13
- DO: inform MD how much money is available to Council
- DO reported his findings, explaining that the Board had voted to roll Council's unspent funds from last year over to this year; DO noted that this is not an automatic rollover — the Board votes each year what to do whit surplusses. Council agreed to spend its rollover on the second ‘personagrphay’ meeting MD will be organizing.
- DP & CT: post revised text & image encoding document …
- A draft was posted on : facsimile markup
- DP & CT: make ODD of it
- CT reports he is almost done coding an ODD; he has run
into a hitch redefining classes, hopes to have it
straightened out soon, but may need the help of an ODD
expert. This ODD is based on the ideas put forth in the
facsimile
markup
post mentioned above. There was
general agreement that if new TEI elements are introduced
they should probably go into chapter
FT-TablesFormulaeGraphics.
Action 4: CT (& DP) finish specifications in ODD 2007-01-27Action 5: CT (& DP) finish prose in ODD 2007-01-31Action 6: all read facsimile ODD, test schemata 2007-02-08
- MD: Rewrite the examples …
- As MD not present, discussion of this item was
deferred, and the item is carried forward:Action 7: MD Rewrite the examples MM provides in the PB document using a more generic mechanism 2007-03-04
- LB: ponder and post discussion of multilingual example problem …
- LB posted a few days ago that he does not think this
will require changes to ODD, just a procedures
document.Action 8: eds. put <exemplum> into att.typed [done]Action 9: CW look for problems in current system; report findings to Council 2007-02-14
- JC: summarize discussion of conformance and write a proposal
- Discussion postponed as JC not present.
- eds.: update [SF feature request] doc …
- This was not discussed on the call; however, it was subsequently pointed out that it will come up prominently in the road-map being developed.
- all: let list know if you expect to be available for a meeting in Berlin
- everyone had done so.
- SR: report on high speed conferences .com system
- This was not reported on directly, but since this meeting was using the system, we can draw the conclusion that SR has reported back on this as being worth a trial.
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PB
Council reluctantly concluded that, realistically, it will probably be necessary to defer inclusion of a detailed discussion of physical bibliography to a future sub-release of P5 (e.g., to P5 1.1).
PERS
It was reported that MD is organizing a two-headed meeting in Vilnius in late February, consisting of a 2-day discussion on place name issues and any other outstanding personography hosted by the Institute for Lithuanian Language of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and a 1-day TEI outreach event at and co-hosted by Vilnius University.
Road to P5
The discussion revolved around the possible use of task-tracking software and the need for a ‘prodding czar’ to remind people of ongoing tasks to help keep us on schedule. It was pointed out that project management or task-tracking software is really just a tool in the prodding czar's arsenal. LB suggested that the main problem is a lack of resources, not lack of planning. Other said that more structured planning can make better use of scarce resources. CW suggested TCW08, EDW81 and a couple of other lists should be placed on a Wiki. After a lengthy discussion, it was decided to create a planning subcommittee, initially consisting of DO, CW, and SR. Their first action is to create a list of things which had to be achieved to reach P5 by a notional date of October 1st, along with their necessary dates of completion. When agreed, the same group would be tasked to ensure the tasks were implemented. The list should use previous efforts & lists as a starting point.
Meetings
LR reports all systems are ‘go’ for Berlin. He is gathering a list of projects interested [?...?] in the pre-meeting event.
Next conference call scheduled for 2007-03-19 12:00 with the same dialing instructions as for today's call. 1
- Vancouver
- Mon 19 Mar at 05:00
- Calgary
- Mon 19 Mar at 06:00
- Chicago
- Mon 19 Mar at 07:00
- Indianapolis
- Mon 19 Mar at 08:00
- Providence
- Mon 19 Mar at 08:00
- London
- Mon 19 Mar at 12:00
- Paris
- Mon 19 Mar at 13:00
- Taipei
- Mon 19 Mar at 20:00
- Kyoto
- Mon 19 Mar at 21:00
- Wellington
- Tue 20 Mar at 00:00
