Jan. 12 meeting reminder, details, agenda

[Christian Wittern]

Dear colleagues,

Just a short comment on Tone Meretes suggestions:

Within the Sinologist research communities across the Pacific Rim
(that is Taiwan, China, the United States and Japan), there has been
some effort to establish a standard for the exchange of metadata of
stone rubbings, bronze inscriptions and eventually also manuscript
data.  

This effort has been stalled recently for a number of reasons,
not the least of them political.  I think it would benefit both these
researchers and the TEI to try to integrate these efforts with the
ongoing manuscript description TEI modules.

I wonder what the council members think about this and whether it
seems worth to pursue.  A follow up question would then be whether
this could fit in with ESTATE and the WG's suggested by Tone Merete,
or whether some separate WG would prove more efficient.

All the best,

Christian Wittern

Tone Merete Bruvik <tone.bruvik at hit.uib.no> writes:

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> Dear council,
> 
> I did not think I was supposed to attend the London meeting, and as I 
> have not book a ticket it would be very difficult for me to join at 
> the last minute. But, I asked John to put the ESTATE item on your 
> agenda for the meeting, and it might be in that connection John was 
> expecting me in London.
> 
> Please let me say a few words about the project, and please observe 
> that the links John send you are outdated:
> 
> Together with Peter Robinson, I am writing an EU proposal for a 
> project called ESTATE. We would like to ask the council to write a 
> letter of recommendation for this project, and more specific to put 
> set up one or two working groups that will partly be sponsored by the 
> ESTATE project:
> 
> - TEI workgroup on primary text cataloguing, in the areas of 
> incunables and documentary texts (letters, historical documents, 
> etc.). This will build on the MASTER standard and recommendations 
> from the TEI work group for the Description of Medieval and 
> Renaissance Manuscripts, which already provides most of the elements 
> and structure needed for such encoding.
> 
> - TEI workgroup on primary text representation, in the form of 
> transcriptions and editions of the texts themselves. This workgroup 
> will focus particularly on the problems posed by 'genetic texts': 
> authorial manuscripts showing many overlays of revision.
> 
> The ESTATE project will found the participation from the partners in 
> the ESTATE project, but the workgroups will be under TEI control and 
> may last longer than the 24 months we are planning for the ESTATE 
> project.
> 
> You may found more information about the ESTATE project at:
> 
> http://helmer.hit.uib.no/xml/ESTATE/
> 
> The user name is "ESTATE", and the password "estate"
> 
> Please look in the part C of the proposal 
> (http://helmer.hit.uib.no/xml/ESTATE/ESTATE_C.html) to find the list 
> of partners (the http://www.hit.uib.no/TEI/ESTATE/parters.html is 
> outdated) You will se from the list of partners that two of the 
> participants at the London meeting, are also involved: Matthew 
> Driscoll and Lou Burnard.
> 
> You will also see that the proposal is currently a draft, and the 
> council may need further information in order to decide if you would 
> like to support this proposal. The deadline for the proposal is the 
> last week of February.
> 
> Any comments and suggestions from the council and its members to the 
> proposal are of course very welcome.
> 
> Your sincerely
> Tone Merete Bruvik
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 Christian Wittern 
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN