TEI: Personography Workgroup Charge


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Objectives

Objectives of this activity are to:
  1. investigate in a systematic way other existing XML schemes used to handle data about people; extract a list of features they encode, and compare that feature set with the set currently supported by TEI P5. This would aim to produce both some kind of "cross-walk" of existing schemata for representing data about people and also some sample data sets for testing and evaluation purposes.
  2. review existing TEI customizations (eg Epidoc and the other classical archaeology work) which deal with people and work with their authors to identify features they have found it necessary to add to the existing TEI P4 features.
  3. review the existing TEI elements used to represent data about people, specifically those provided by the corpus and names and dates modules; review their coverage with regard to the feature sets identified in the first step; determine whether or not they should be presented as a distinct module.
  4. where there is a significant gap between the scope of other encoding schemes which cover historical data (eg HEML) and the current feastures provided by the TEI, make recommendations on how the TEI scheme should relate to them.

Administrative

This activity is under the supervision of Matthew Driscoll, who will suggest other participants for approval by the Council.

The TEI will provide an initial budget of $7500 for this activity. It is planned to spend this funding on a research assistant to work on completion of tasks (1) and (2) and on travel for a 2 day meeting of ~6 persons to review the output from those tasks, and to plan development of the TEI recommendations arising from that review.

Schedule

The plan of work should begin as soon as possible, with a view to being in operation by the end of January 2006. Initial recommendations should be ready by May in time for the Council meeting. The work should be concluded by end of July.


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