TEI Council Conference Call

<date value="2007-01-23">23 Jan 07</date>Syd BaumanTC M 28

This electronic file is the source.

Converted to P5

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.

MD sends apologies; JC had sent his apologies earlier.

SB is taking notes.

Minutes from last meeting

  • SB reports this action was finally completed last night read & comment on SB’s post date attributes: summary, problems, and some suggestions2006-02-06

  • 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. implement limited phrase 2007-02-14

  • 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. discuss relatedItem on the Council list [?…?] is this due date for discussion or implementation [?…?] 2007-02-13

  • 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.

  • A draft was posted on : facsimile markup

  • 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. finish specifications in ODD 2007-01-27 finish prose in ODD 2007-01-31 read facsimile ODD, test schemata 2007-02-08

  • As MD not present, discussion of this item was deferred, and the item is carried forward: Rewrite the examples MM provides in the PB document using a more generic mechanism 2007-03-04

  • LB posted a few days ago that he does not think this will require changes to ODD, just a procedures document. put exemplum into att.typed [done] look for problems in current system; report findings to Council 2007-02-14

  • Discussion postponed as JC not present.

  • 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.

  • everyone had done so.

  • 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.
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.

I18N

As sufficient funds were available, SR has added Italian to the list of languages being worked on. By the summer we will need to think about how this stuff will be made available in the P5 release, i.e. what the user interface and the look-and-feel will be in the online Guidelines.

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. post draft road-map list to Council 2007-02-02 read & discuss road-map list 2007-02-09

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.That will be:

  • Mon 19 Mar at 05:00

  • Mon 19 Mar at 06:00

  • Mon 19 Mar at 07:00

  • Mon 19 Mar at 08:00

  • Mon 19 Mar at 08:00

  • Mon 19 Mar at 12:00

  • Mon 19 Mar at 13:00

  • Mon 19 Mar at 20:00

  • Mon 19 Mar at 21:00

  • Tue 20 Mar at 00:00

LR attempted to add something, but was cut off.

Call ended at 13:27.