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[Fotis Jannidis]

Hello,

maybe this is something for the agenda tomorrow: 
A group of German historians are considering to develop a dtd for the transcription of historical sources. They want to collaborate with the TEI. 

As far as I can see, this is very much in the beginning, but it poses a general question: how to cooperate in the most fruitful way. Is the TEI generally trying to cooperate as 
closely as possible in order to incorporate special demands like this into the TEI recommendations? 

They asked me some special questions which I have to forward to you: 
- How are new working groups established? 
- Is there a level of discussion of TEI extensions more formally than the discussion lists, but not as formally as the working groups?

As the proposed work is rather in the domain of the TEI section on the "Transcription of Primary Sources" I guess they also want to know how to cooperate with a working 
group. 

A more general idea in this context: Should the TEI offer to host extensions to the TEI (which use the extension mechanism) which have been developed by some project? 
In projects like perl the module archive does offer everybody working with perl access to tested code and some modules are becoming part of the standard distribution after 
a while. On the other side: Maybe the extensions are most of the time so specific that they wouldn't be worthwhile sharing.

Best wishes for the meeting. 

Fotis Jannidis