Fwd: Collaboration between CIDOC and TEI

[John Unsworth]

Folks,

This came in a couple of days ago, and after a brief discussion with the 
board, I think we agree that we endorse the general idea of working with 
CIDOC as appropriate, and also agree that it is really up to the Council to 
decide what *is* appropriate in this connection.  So, here's the original 
message, and I will forward one follow-up email response from Richard, and 
you should let me know what further response the Council might want me to 
make at this point.

John

>Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:21:06 +0000
>To: jmu2m at virginia.edu
>Cc: Adrian Finney <Adrian.Finney at nga.gov.au>
>From: Richard Light <richard at light.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Collaboration between CIDOC and TEI
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>John,
>
>I am on the Board of CIDOC, which is the International Committee for 
>Documentation (part of ICOM, the International Council of Museums). This 
>Committee has nearly 1,000 members in 86 countries.  Its web address is 
>http://www.cidoc.icom.org/
>
>CIDOC works to develop and apply documentation standards which will 
>further the work of museums in general.  It has produced a number of 
>resources in its own right, from basic guidance on inventorying through to 
>a Conceptual Reference Model for heritage information which has been 
>submitted to ISO as a proposed standard.
>
>At a recent Board meeting it was agreed that we should investigate the 
>possibility of collaborating with the Text Encoding Initiative - hence 
>this message.
>
>Our view is that both organizations could benefit from such collaboration. 
>CIDOC would be willing to work actively on aspects of TEI (such as people, 
>places and dates) where our knowledge and experience could help the 
>development of the next version of the Guidelines.  We may also be 
>interested in developing a museums-specific "topping" that goes beyond 
>this.  Clearly, this work would help to raise the profile of TEI within 
>the museums community in general, and improve its level of adoption for 
>textual resources within museums.
>
>I look forward to hearing your views on this proposal.  Please don't 
>hesitate to contact me if you need any further information.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Richard Light.
>
>--
>Richard Light
>Board Member, CIDOC
>3 Midfields Walk
>Burgess Hill
>West Sussex
>RH15 8JA
>tel. +44 1444 232067
>email: richard at light.demon.co.uk
>