TEI Technical Council Meeting,

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Actions Arising

Action: SR to post to Council a reminder of where to find it on GitHub. Duly done: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple

Action: PWS to continue to act as liaison to Correspondence SIG, reporting back on correspDesc work.

Action: HC to continue to organise November Face2Face meeting

Action: LB to set up Pure ODD mailing list

Action: ALL COUNCIL — look at Critical Apparatus Revision draft and send comments to HC.

Action: JC to remind board about translation/internationalisation efforts and our questions concerning them.

Action: EM to act as liaison for Greek translation work and report back to Council.

TEI Conference, Members Meeting, and Elections (JC)

JC requests Council members send him tidbits to announce during Council Chair report

If anyone has ideas that we should query the membership about by querying the audience, please let JC know.

Elections. The ballots have gone out to individual members and institutional reps. Get out the vote.

TEI Simple (SR)

Process started last month, will continue until next summer. Work so far has concentrated on defining the customization. Expect no surprises in the content model: by design, it will be based heavily on existing usage of large TEI-based corpora (EEBO TCP, DTA etc), and will not be counted a success unless those corpora can be validated against it without significant loss.

Expecting presentation of processing model in a TEI SImple report at TEI MM Conference in Evanston. SR and JC gave some first ideas. Imagine markup like:

Action: SR to post to Council a reminder of where to find it on GitHub. Duly done: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple

Update on correspDesc (PWS)

• Limited progress: task force has had conference call
• Several outstanding issues.
• PWS has made new ODD, available on GitHub at: https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/correspDesc
• Hoping to have another conference call w/ some TEI Council members soon
• Action: PWS should send JC a few paragraphs of summary of work to date.
• SIG will be the first SIG to have a Tweet chat 2014-10-10 14:00Z. Hash tag? #TEIChat #AskTEI

Action: PWS to continue to act as liaison to Correspondence SIG, reporting back on correspDesc work.

November Face to Face (HC)

• Meeting is Mon 11-17 to Wed 11-19, inclusive; departure after lunch on Wed is acceptable, although we have the room all day.
• HC asks that we all finalize our entries on nights-accommodation-needed Doodle poll by Fri 2014-10-10. It is at [URL Removed]
• consensus is we’d prefer to eat lunch out, at least 2 of the 3, especially if we can bring back remnants to nibble.

Action: HC to continue to organise November Face2Face meeting

Outstanding issues in Pure ODD (LB)

• LB summarise issues posted to council list about pure odd and @allowText, etc.
• Consensus was that we had indeed agree to zap @allowText and simply support a new element <mixedContent>. SR pointed out that this would mean changing c. 122 XSL templates in the ODD processing code, but was unfairly laughed at. SB expressed mild sympathy for SR.
• Discussion of datatypes. Suggested that we leave this alone for now; SR said we should limit use of <rng:data> to <macroRef>, rather than allowing it directly in eg <datatype>. Investigation needed of the implications of this.
• Discussion of varying content models by xpath constraints, to allow (eg) different versions of <p> in <text> and <teiHeader>. Much thought and experimentation needed here. LB said he would set up a special mailling list to discuss this area, and get people in and out of Council to join in and define a notation
• SB noted that we need a mechanism for indicating experimental functionality

Action: LB to set up Pure ODD mailing list

AOB

• Process of changing SIG (Co-)Convener
• Nothing to do with Council — need to inform the TEI SIG Coordinator which is the Council Chair, so currently JC

Progress on Critical Apparatus revision (HC)

request for those interested to take a look at https://docs.google.com/document/d/10R5FfpvCh9v2c2zeG1hgYMcyuT8o-PfHiaWYVrLf56k/edit?usp=sharing — a second draft, following on from the initial one, which engaged a lot of people. Lots of good discussion happening.

Action: ALL COUNCIL — look at Critical Apparatus Revision draft and send comments to HC.

Greek Guidelines translation (EM)

JC to remind board of our questions about translation/internationalisation

have made HTML doc sent to me into google spreadsheet and shared with Anna Maria Sihani who had volunteered to work on this. Can remain as her contact.

More documentation needed on how to do the translation

Discussion on opening up the translation spreadsheets more widely; Perhaps should be done as particular projects

Action: JC to remind board about translation/internationalisation efforts and our questions concerning them.

Action: EM to act as liaison for Greek translation work and report back to Council.

JC thanked members of Council for participating and reminded them to get on with their tickets and actions.