For distribution first to Council, then to world via TEI website.
This electronic file is the source.
All Council members were present, except LR who had sent apologies; SB arrived late
The following action items from the previous minutes were reviewed:
- JF had produced notes,
and these had been discussed. It had been suggested that MZ
might set up a WIKI to host process at NYU. Chair queried
whether this would not be better done on the main TEI site. JF
agreed this would be desirable, but it was not yet clear
how this fitted in with UVA’s website development plans. SR
noted that the choice of site supporting the WIKI did not
matter so long as the address wiki.tei-c.org (or
tei-c.org/wiki) could be mapped to it.
to pursue wiki redirection with DP and report. 2005-04-10 - LB reported that
he had received input from most Council members and was
working on a draft HowTo document to help testers get
started. Council stressed the importance of making such a
document available as soon (and as widely) as
possible. Noted that the document would need input from
those with access to non-Unix platforms and expertise in
other editors.
to circulate preliminary draft of HowTo document within next two weeks 2005-04-10 - SR reported that he had
drafted a document on P5 system maintenance with
information useful for those trying to use the supplied P5
Makefile. Council agreed that this topic also needed to be
addressed, and that a simple README for P5 would also be
useful.
to draft README for P5 source files LB stated that investigation into how best to install P5 in non-Linux platforms was also needed.2005-04-10 - LB reported that there had been some feedback on this, but not as yet enough to warrant setting up a committee distinct from the Council.
- SB reported complete inactivity from the group. Council noted that the current SA chapter still needed a considerable amount of explanatory and editorial work.
- LB reported that the DIS was now out for national ballot within ISO member organizations
- JF reported that she had approached
ODonnell to head this wg, who had declined; she was pursuing other
possibilities. The group had however made some preliminary suggestions which
could be considered for inclusion in P5: it was agreed that this
should be circulated to Council for comment.
to circulate informal report on suggestions so far produced by PhysBib wg to Council. 2005-04-10 - PW had had some discussion with members
of the group about the nature of the new proposal. LB expressed
concern that the existing
biblStruct element should not be removed from P5 until there had been opportunity to compare the two proposals; this was agreed. SB and PW were requested to collect and report on the issues. A link to the relevant documents and proposals should be available from the Activities web page, and the matter discussed at the next Council meeting. LB reported that the basic ideas had been well received by INIST at the meeting he had recently attended in Nancy.to report on biblItem proposals to Council. 2005-04-15 - JW and NS were poised to request input from cataloguers for
production of a TEI Header/MARC
cross-walk using a spreadsheet. Council requested that this should also be made available for
review via the Activities web page.
to provide draft report for posting on website. 2005-04-05 - MD reported that he and LB had a preliminary list of potential
reviewers for the new MS material and hoped to send it out within the
next two weeks, as soon as supporting documentation was
available. There had been some minor changes to the draft in response
to comments received since the first release, and more were
anticipated. Council approved the suggested review method,
recommending that reviewers be asked to file individual reports within
a short timescale, and that feedback provided should also be circulated to the
existing MS-SIG list. It was noted that dealing with comments might
require considerable effort.
to progress review procedure for MS chapter 2005-04-12
Council considered three documents concerning next stages
of work on TEI P5:
ED86 and EDW87 contain both suggested design principles and lists of attributes or elements affected by their proposed application. The former concerns (primarily) text-valued attributes and the latter concerns class membership. In discussion of EDW81, it was agreed that attributes replaced by child elements should not be retained also as attributes. A question was raised about what policy should apply to cases where attributes were being transformed into child elements for elements which already had child content, in particular mixed content. Lack of time prevented detailed discussion of the documents.
Council endorsed the
general direction of the principles proposed and agreed that they
should be discussed in more detail at the Paris meeting, with a view
to proceeding directly to implementation of the principles thereafter.
As previously agreed, the Council will hold its annual face to face meeting at AFNOR in Paris, starting at 1400 on 28 April. The aim is to complete the meeting by Friday 29th evening, but the morning of Saturday 30th will be available if necessary.