TEI-TRC Meeting: June 27, 1996, 2 to 6 p.m.; Bergen
(Norway)
Winfried Bader
9 December 1996
Table of Contents
Present:
- Winfried Bader
- David Barnard (Chair, Steering Committee, ACH)
- Lou Burnard (editor)
- Tom Corns
- Daniel Greenstein
- Susan Hockey (Steering Committee, ALLC)
- Nancy Ide (Steering Committee, ACH)
- Stig Johansson
- Terry Langendoen
- Elli Mylonas
- Gary Simons
- Michael Sperberg-McQueen (editor)
- Syun Tutiya
- Antonio Zampolli (Steering Committee, ALLC)
- Regrets:
- Susan Armstrong-Warwick (Steering Committee, ACL)
- Judith Klavans (Steering Committee, ACL)
- Steven J. DeRose
Agenda
- 1. Choosing chair and secretary
- 2. Status and funding of the TEI
- 3. Terms of reference of the Technical Review Committee
- 4. Revising the Guidelines: Status, work required
- 5. Form for drafts produced by work group
- 6. Procedure for work groups
- 7. New work items
- 8. Next meeting and other business
David Barnard called the meeting to order and recalled that TEI
procedures call for the chair and secretary of the TRC to be
appointed by the executive committee, in consultation with the
TRC. On behalf of the executive committee, he proposed that
Terry Langendoen be named chair and Winfried Bader secretary.
The TRC approved of this suggestion, and Terry Langendoen
assumed the chair.
C.M. Sperberg-McQueen reported on the current status and funding of
the TEI by a NEH grant. The following funding is
possible per annum:
- 5 work group meetings full funded
- 1 work group meeting partially funded
- 1 TRC meeting partially funded
There was no discussion.
Topic 3: Terms of reference of the Technical Review
Committee
The committee reviewed document TEI ED W48, which is available at
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/ed/edw53.tei.
Document TEI ED W48, referred to therein, has not yet
been drafted.
Topic 5: Form for drafts produced by work group:
Document TEI ED W55 was discussed and apporved. In section 1
the `alternate wording' was preferred.
Topic 6: Procedure for work groups: Document TEI ED W54
was discussed and approved.
- C.M. Sperberg-McQueen reported that:
- almost all printed copies of P3 are sold out
- a corrected reprint is needed as soon as possible
- proof reading of some chapters by the TEI-TRC is needed
- another step is the further developing of the guidelines
The committee surveyed two lists: the known public errors document
(TEI ED W67) and the public suggestions for new work items document (TEI EX
P01).
Each suggested work item or error was classified in 5 types by the TRC
for further work:
- Eds
- item will be fixed by the editors, unless they wish to refer the
item back to the TRC; TRC charges editors to make the required
changes.
- Core
- item will be fixed by the core group (see below)
- WG
- item will be treated by TRC if possible, or allocated to a work
group (and may therefore remain untreated if the work group is not
established)
- OK
- we agree with the suggested solution: the editors should make the
corrections proposed
- NA
- no action need be taken
The following typos were all classed
Eds (with one exception).
- 1994-09-09 : Walter Henry
- 1994-09-28 : Syd Bauman
- 1995-01-13 : Terry Allen
- 1995-01-13 : Terry Allen
- 1995-01-17 : Hans Dybkjaer
- 1995-01-17 : Hans Dybkjaer:
Core
- 1995-02-06 : Peter Robinson
- 1995-02-06 : Greg Priest-Dorman
- 1995-03-23 : Syd Bauman
- 1995-03-23 : Syd Bauman
- 1995-05-12 : Arjan.Loeffen
- 1995-06-02 : David M. Seaman
- 1995-06-12 : Syd Bauman
- 1996-02-07 : LB
- 1996-05-13/28 : cmsmcq
All `cosmetic changes' should be fixed by
the editors (
Eds)
End of document TEI ED W67
- Syd Bauman, 28 September 1994, on ORNAMENT:
Core
- Lee Quin, 28 September 1994, on etymology:
WG : Assign to
dictionary work group
- Peter Robinson, 14 December 1994, on APP etc.:
WG : Assign
to
text criticism work group
- Mary Steele, 16 December 1994, on URLs in independent
headers:
WG : Assign to
header work group
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, 27 April 1995, on encoding comic
strips:
NA
- Arjan Loeffen, 10 May 1995, on type of WSD:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, 10 May 1995, on WSD type:
WG :
Assign to
architecture work group
- E.H.M. Van den Hout, 11 May 1995, Linegroups:
Core
- Terry Allen 19 May 1995, Docbook REVIS attribute:
NA
- Steve DeRose (via Lou Burnard), 22 May 1995 Xptrs:
NA
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, 24 May 1995, Miscellaneous:
Eds
- David Seaman, 2 June 1995: Varia:
Eds
- Murray McGillivray, 26 June 1995, call for papers /
manuscripts etc.:
NA
- Jean Veronis, 5 July 1995, oRef:
WG : Assign to
dictionary
work group
- Jean Veronis, 5 July 1995, rend for abbr:
Core
- Harry Gaylord, 7 July 1995, s and p:
Core
- Lee Quin, 14 July 1995, on etymology:
WG : Assign to
dictionary work group
- Lee Quin, 18 July 1995, (a method for treating semi-closed
lists):
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- John Price-Wilkin, 20 July 1995, on tagging journals:
WG :
Assign to
scholarly journal work group
- C.M.Sperberg-McQueen, 21 July 1995, on tagging journals:
WG
: Assign to
scholarly journal work group
- Wendy Judith Carter, 25 July 1995, on 16c legal documents:
WG : Assign to
legal text work group
- Marion Matters, 26 July 1995, legislation:
WG : Assign to
legal textwork group
- Jan Grootenhuis, 27 July 1995, legislation:
WG : Assign to
legal text work group
- Joe Raben, 28 July 1995, on symbols for text editing:
NA
- Nancy M. Ide, 29 July 1995, on S and Q:
Core
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, 29 July 1995, on S and Q:
Core
- Jean Veronis, 30 August 1995, SGML for Newspapers:
WG :
Assign to
newspaper work group
- Dominic Dunlop, 6 September 1995, on TEI and MARC:
WG :
Assign to
header work group
- Werner Wegstein, 8 September 1995, on ellipsis:
Eds
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, 10 September 1995, on etymology:
WG
: Assign to
dictionary work group
- Syd Bauman, 18 September 1995: Varia:
- Syd Bauman, 18 September 1995: CERTAINTY:
Core
- Syd Bauman, 18 September 1995:GI, TAG, ATT, VAL in the
header:
NA
- Syd Bauman, 18 September 1995:Changing the DTD:
WG :
Assign to
dictionary work group
- Syd Bauman, 18 September 1995:Errata!:
Core
- Syd Bauman, 18 September 1995:5 FW:
Core
- Claude Gosselin, 23 September 1995, DTD for reading notes:
NA
- Dominic Dunlop, 25 October 1995, on MS markup:
- Dominic Dunlop, 25 October 1995, on MS markup:
WG :
Assign to
headerwork group
- Dominic Dunlop, 25 October 1995, on MS markup:
Core
- Dominic Dunlop, 25 October 1995, on MS markup:
NA
- Terry Allen, 1 Oct 1995, on the analysis of personal
names:
NA
- Lou Burnard, 5 October 1995, on SEG:
Core
- Henry S. Thompson, 6 October 1995, on SEG:
Core
- Harry Gaylord, 1 November 1995, on S:
Core
- Borje Samuelsson, 7 November 1995, SGML for newspapers:
WG : Assign to
newspaper work group
- Paul Hermans, 7 November 1995, SGML for Newspapers:
WG : Assign to
newspaper work group
- Nick Finke, 22 November 1995, on multiple signatures:
NA
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, 28 November 1995, on SGML
declaration:
Eds
- Lou Burnard, 29 November 1995, on SGML Declarations:
Eds
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, 13 December 1995, on dates:
WG :
Assign to
dictionary work group
- David Megginson, 21 January 1996, a global TYPE attribute:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- Dominic Dunlop 22 January 1996, on global TYPE attribute:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- David Megginson, 23 January 1996, on global TYPE
attribute:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- Robin Cover, 23 January 1996, on global TYPE attribute:
WG
: Assign to
architecture work group
- Gregory J. Murphy, 23 January 1996, on global TYPE
attribute:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- Wayne Wohler, 23 January 1996, on global TYPE attribute:
WG
: Assign to
architecture work group
- Peter Flynn, 26 January 1996, on tagging SGML
documentation, linking to TSD:
Core
- David Megginson, 7 March 1996,
- eliminate parameter
entities as used for selecting TEI tag sets:
Eds
- Separate Public
Identifier for Each Base Tag Set; Additional Tag Sets Enabled by
Default; Extensions Require Their Own Public Identifier:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- John Lavagnino, 9 March 1996, on eliminating parameter
entities:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- Stephen Davis, 23 April 1996, on syntactic restrictions
vs.
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- Lee Quin, 24 April 1996, on data dictionary approach:
WG :
Assign to
architecture work group
- Peter Flynn, 24 April 1996, on data dictionary approach:
WG
: Assign to
architecture work group
- David Megginson, 6 June 1996, HyTime Support and Subdocs:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
- David G. Durand, 6 June 1996, architectural forms:
WG :
Assign to
architecture work group
- David Megginson, 10 June 1996, on architectural forms:
WG
: Assign to
architecture work group
- Christian Wittern, 11 June 1996, character sets (esp.
Asian) and
WG : Assign to
WSD work group
- Nick Finke, 13 June 1996, legal texts:
WG : Assign to
legal text work group
- Peter Robinson, 13 June 1996, on architectural forms:
WG :
Assign to
architecture work group
- Peter Flynn, 14 June 1996, Curia Project Suggestions:
Core
- Frans Wiering, 14 June 1996, title pages, diagrams,
musical notation:
Core
- Syd Bauman, 15 June 1996: ERRORS:
Eds
- Syd Bauman, 15 June 1996: Typos:
Eds
- Syd Bauman, 15 June 1996: New Work Items:
WG : Assign to
architecture work group
End of document TEI EX P01
- Document EXWWPRND:
WG :
Assign to
presentation description; page
description work group
- Document NOLA: It was agreed that it would be wise to have a work
group on this topic. It should be a subgroup of the header work group, and
affiliated with the Network of Online Literary Archives.
- Document CURIA: Hibernia project. This concrete proposal was referred
to the core group.
p (
Core).
Suggestions for new work items arose out of discussion of documents
TEI ED W53 and TEI EX P01 as well as from consideration of document TEI SC
G19
The TRC proposed the following ranking of the topics, for
determination by the executive committee. The whole committee agreed
that the first three topics on the following list were absolutely
necessary. The remainder were voted on by the twelve members of the TRC
present (Susan Hockey and Antonio Zampolli had had to leave) with 3
votes each. The TRC ranked these topics as regards the need for
and utility of centralized TEI funding for work groups on the topics;
this ranking is herewith forwarded to the executive committee for action in
chartering the work groups.
- Core
(How/why combine base tag set; user
defined base tag set construction; local installation support of TEI)- Header
(generic meta data; geospatial (self
funding); museums & art history (self funding))- Architecture
of the TEI-DTD- Textual criticism - Scholarly editions [10 votes] (includes
analytical bibliography, codicology, manuscript transcription)
- Dictionaries [7 votes] (includes historical dictionaries)
- Writing System Declarations - Character Set Problems [6
votes]
- NOLA - Networking of Literary Archives [4 votes]
- Page description [4 votes]
- Legal documents [2 votes]
- Newspapers [2 votes]
- Multimedia [1 vote] (includes encyclopedia; reference work)
- Terminology [0 votes] (harmonization)
- Historical Editions (self funding work group) (includes
letters; memoranda)
To accelerate the work, it was decided to build a subcommittee of the
TRC to address the "core" issues.
As a subcommittee of TRC this group will have executives rights. It will
exist until the next meeting. The working items for this committee are
first to fix the bugs in the existing TEI-guidelines, second to begin
with the new documentation.
The subcomittee will consist of the two editors and three other members
of the TRC, to be appointed by the chair of the TRC in consultation with
the editors. (In fact it proved necessary to appoint one member to the
core subcommittee who is not a member of the TRC; the members of the
subcommittee are: David Barnard, Lou Burnard, Dominic Dunlop, Elli
Mylonas, and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen.)
Subcommittee to formulate the work items: 2 editors, chair and
secretary of TRC [all agreed]
The next meeting of TRC will take place Sunday and Monday before the
Kingston ACH/ALLC conference.