TEI SC W5: Notes of TEI Technical Review meeting on 30-31 May 1992 Susan Hockey, 3 June 1992 Present: David Barnard, Steve DeRose, David Durand, Harry Gaylord, Rich Giordano, Dan Greenstein, Terry Langendoen, Elli Mylonas, Allen Renear, David Robey, Peter Robinson, Gary Simons, Syun Tutiya, Wendy Plotkin, Robert Amsler, Susan Hockey, Nancy Ide, Donald Walker, Antonio Zampolli (in part), Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Lou Burnard. Apologies: Nicoletta Calzolari, Stig Johansson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- These notes document the decisions made on the contents of the Guidelines. Actions and deadlines follow in a separate message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. General Issues on the Guidelines 1. The order of items in each section is as follows: (1) list of tags (2) prose text (3) tag descriptions (4) example (5) DTD 2. Languages other than English may be used for examples, but this should be kept to a minimum. 3. Real as opposed to fictitious examples are preferable. Sources of examples will be in an appendix, referenced by section number. 4. Examples will include as few other tags as possible. 5. There is no specific overall structure for a chapter. B. Chapter 11: About these Guidelines Reorganization and revision of this chapter is needed so that it focusses more clearly on what we are trying to do. N Ide and S Hockey will revise this chapter with assistance from D Robey and A Renear on issues of recoverability see G.4 below). The list on 11.1.1 should be more inclusive and the chapter should be more explicit about the broad utility of P2 outside scholarship. C. Chapter 13: Structure of TEI DTDs 1. 'certainty' will be a tag to be documented in Part IV. A Renear volunteered to describe this tag. 2. 'resp' will be neither a tag, nor a global attribute. 3. A global attribute 'teiform', as described by D Durand, will allow the use of one's own tag names to be mapped on to the TEI vanilla form. D. Chapter 21: Character Representation This chapter needs more information on entities. E. Chapter 22: TEI header 1. This chapter has too much information and it is not easy to extract what is important from the current draft. The chapter will be restructured so that the core header is described here. A more advanced header and then information on specific text type headers will be better in Part IV. [This needs a chapter in Part IV] 2. Within each section the information will be presented in increasing order of complexity. 3. The profile description will come before the revision description and after the encoding description. 4. partic.desc, setting.desc and text.desc will be in Part IV. 5. The description of notes.stmt needs to be expanded to stress that it can contain P elements and therefore be the place where decisions that the encoder has made are justified, e.g. the underlying theory, if metaphor is encoded. 6. The algorithm described in 22.5.6.2 will become an appendix. 7. The specific tags in editorial practices will be retained not dropped. F. Chapter 23: Core Tags 1. Sections 23.2 (Reference Systems) and 23.5 (Bibliographic Citations) will be moved nearer to the end of the chapter and next to each other. 2. will move to Part IV in Chapter 44. 3. Richer examples for note are needed to show that it can be used for both material in the original text and material which the editor has added. 4. A better definition of is needed. It must be renamed, possibly as . 5. (end of 23.7) The problem of dismembered quotations is one instance of 'hierarchy busters'. This needs an extended discussion in Part VI with some mention in Chapter 12. 6. The only name tags in 23.9 will be name, person, place and org. Person, place and org will have the broader of the two senses proposed. The extended forms of names will be in Part IV in a new section with other extended crystals. 7. Add tags for measure and time in 23.10. An extended crystal for dates will be in Part IV with month, day, year, era and weekday. 8. The S-tag will be immediately after the section on paragraphs. Ambiguous punctuation will be a separate section. 9. The example of CONCUR in 23.2.3 will be referred to the metalanguage committee who will decide how far to constrain the use of CONCUR. 10. Citation references need a target attribute and a citation scope. G. Specific Issues 1. The editors' proposed solution for dealing with collections and corpora was accepted. 2. An short introduction to Part III is needed to say this this list is not exhaustive. 3. It was agreed to use linked lists to solve the problem raised by E Mylonas of 'dismembered things'. A solution using LOCs or corresp.grp may also be defined. 4. Recoverability needs to be discussed - in Chapter 11. 5. Chapter 23 will also include , , , and a subset of
, also a general purpose pointer and cross-reference mechanism, and street addresses. 6. Part IV will be reordered as follows: (1) Analytic mechanisms (note change of name) (2) Applications of analytic mechanisms (3) Hypermedia (4) Extended Crystals (5) Textual Criticism (6) Formulae (and tables) (7) Physical characteristics (8) Certainty - better after (2) [plus also the extended header] H. Issues on the TEI in General 1. The following areas have already been identified for further work: linguistic resources, spoken texts, physical characteristics, dictionaries, literature, history, hypermedia, newspapers and character sets. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. 2. (H Gaylord) The TEI should look to become an ISO technical report. That would gain status from ISO without the need to freeze the guidelines. 3. (G Simons) The bibliographic work needs further development. 4. More of the intellectual work of the TEI should be published in different ways. 5. (D Robey) TEI-L should be moderated. 6. Work groups would like more information from the Steering Committee, e.g. a summary of the minutes of meetings. 7. The TEI needs a level of documentation which can be brought together to which people can refer easily. 8. (R Giordano) The method of training he used for the affiliated project in Stockholm was effective. 9. (H Gaylord) The TEI could provide workshops for industry which is willing to pay.