NEH workgroup (vote required)

Mon Mar 4 11:14:17 EST 2002

A tardy response (apparently I being in the Pacific Time Zone is a 
disadvantage!)

Having worked with Sally Thomas, I can say that she is not qualified to 
participate in this group, and move that her name be removed from the 
list.  I can give a long diatribe, or you can trust me on this.  I would 
not want to inflict her on our chair, and I think someone else who 
represents the interests of UC could be located.

I think Chris would do a great job chairing the group.

Merrilee

At 08:44 PM 3/3/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Here are the names of those who have nominated themselves for our 
>NEH-funded SGML-XML migration workgroup.  Greg Murphy, Sun Microsystems, 
>is missing from this list because he nominated himself and then withdrew 
>his nomination.  If I have missed anyone, please let me know.
>
>The NEH workplan calls for:
>
>         A Task Force on SGML to XML conversion of legacy TEI data, in which
>         selected TEI experts (6) and editors (2) work closely with
>         representatives from projects with significant TEI SGML holdings 
> (another 10
>         people) to diagnose and document the problems, methods, and tools 
> necessary
>         to design and effect a migration from SGML to XML, in TEI.
>
>Our editors, of course, are Lou Burnard and Syd Bauman.  As you know, 
>we've had a number of volunteers: I have grouped those, below, into 
>migration experts, repository representatives, and questionable 
>self-nominations.  Obviously, a number of these repository representatives 
>could be migration experts; the reverse is not necessarily true, and the 
>questionable nominations don't (to my mind) fit well in either category.
>
>I would say that our business is only to appoint the chair--we can then 
>forward the self-nominations to that person (perhaps with a recommendation 
>that a couple of the volunteers be thanked but dismissed), and we can let 
>the chair sort the group into the two categories, and issue invitations to 
>fill the remaining seats.  Unless there's dissent on this procedural 
>question, then Council members need to express an opinion on two points:
>
>A.  Who should chair this group? (two people have been nominated, only one 
>of whom has actually volunteered, so we need to hear from Sebastian as to 
>his willingness to serve if appointed.  We can also nominate others, but I 
>would say they should come from our list of volunteers, below).
>
>B.  Should we recommend to the chair that Zafrin and Rischer be thanked 
>and dismissed?
>
>If you dissent on the procedure, please do so immediately.  Otherwise, 
>please vote on those two questions as soon as you can.
>
>John
>
>----------------------
>
>Nominations for Chair:
>
>Sebastian Rahtz (Tomaz Erjavec): Sebastian, you haven't actually 
>volunteered for this, so please indicate whether you are willing to chair 
>the workgroup, if appointed.
>
>Chris Powell (Matthew Driscoll, seconded Perry Willett). Chris 
>volunteered, and she was suggested by John Price-Wilkin as an 
>alternate.  I think we can assume she would serve if appointed.
>
>Other nominations for chair may be made, but they should be drawn from the 
>list of volunteers, below, I think.
>
>
>TEI Migration Experts:
>
>[Sebastian Rahtz, if he agrees to serve on the workgroup, as chair or 
>otherwise]
>
>Syun Tutiya <tutiya at chiba-u.ac.jp>
>Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba University
>Faculty of Letters, Chiba University
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0083.html
>
>
>
>TEI Repository Representatives:
>
>1. Chris Powell <sooty at umich.edu>
>Coordinator, Humanities Text Initiative -- http://www.hti.umich.edu/
>Coordinator, Electronic Text Services -- http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0079.html
>
>2. Natalia Smith <nsmith at email.unc.edu>
>+ Head of Digitization Section, manages the production of DocSouth
>+ 6 years of extensive experience working with TEI/SGML (after attending
>CETH Summer seminar in 1995)
>+ Member of the NDLF Task Force charged with creating "TEI Text Encoding
>in Libraries" guidelines, endorsed by the DLF
>+ I represent UNC-Chapel Hill in the TEI-C
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0108.html
>
>3. John A. Walsh, Manager, Electronic Text Technologies
>Digital Library Program / University Information Technology Services
><http://php.indiana.edu/~jawalsh/professional/cv.html>
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0084.html
>
>5. Michael Popham  <michael.popham at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
>Head of the Oxford Text Archive
>http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0090.html
>
>6. dr. Frans Wiering <fransw at cs.uu.nl>
>e-mail: frans.wiering at cs.uu.nl
>Thesaurus musicarum italicarum: http://www.euromusicology.org
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0104.html
>
>7. Alejandro Bia <alex.bia at ua.es>
>Head of the Research and Development dept. of the Miguel de Cervantes 
>Digital Library at the University of Alicante.
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0111.html
>
>8. Sally Thomas <sthomas at library.berkeley.edu>
>Associate Director of the University of California History Digital Archives
>http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe/projects/history/website.html
>The great majority of our TEI-Lite documents are currently located in a 
>password-protected working directory at:
>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2022/dynaweb/working/uchist/assembly/
>login: teitest
>pw: sgml
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0113.html
>
>9. Christine Ruotolo <cjr2q at etext.lib.virginia.edu>
>Associate Director, Electronic Text Center
>University of Virginia
>http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0114.html
>
>10. Tomaz Erjavec <Tomaz.Erjavec at ijs.si>
>- the MULTEXT-East corpus; morphosyntactically tagged, 7-way parallel
>- the IJS-ELAN corpus; morphosyntactically tagged, 2-way parallel
>- the FIDA corpus; morphosyntactically tagged, monolingual reference
>- the Concede lexicon; Bilingual MRD sample
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0112.html
>
>
>Questionable self-nominations--
>Vika Zafrin <vika at wordsend.org>
>Works on the technical and content-editorial side of The Decameron Web at
>Brown University.
>http://www.brown.edu/decameron/
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0100.html
>
>Tobias Rischer <tobias at rischer.com>
>The Critical and Synoptic Edition of James Joyce's Ulysses
>(under the direction of Hans Walter Gabler)
>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0110.html