notes for conference call on 24th

[Sebastian Rahtz]

for the 10 minutes that John has asked me to deal with,
can I ask participants to have glanced over 
http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/oddng.html, and consider some of the
following thoughts.

Core P5 activities 2002-2003
****************************

A) There are a variety of reasons for changing the base markup
of the Guidelines, in no special order:

 * to *analyse* constraint markup

 * to strengthen *existing* datatyping (ie enforce 
   limitations now only given in words)

 * to add datatyping (ie convert woolly prose to
   precise limitations)

 * to parameterize all datatype constraints (to allow for
   per-project tightening or loosening) 

We can also take the opportunity to bring the ODDs into sync with what is
described in P4, and convert the TSD to a normal tagset.

Most of this is is covered in the "oddng" paper, which argues in
favour of a schema language to replace the existing embedded

<p>B) We need to open P4 to change:

 * we can make ODDs consistent in depth of description

 * we need to ask for candidates for addition, addition, or omission
    of tags [re-establish TCC?] 

 * we need to consider candidates for correction, addition or omission of
    tagsets [work groups, when funds permit]

 * we should look at revision of the metadata, including
    addition of embedded metadata

<p>C) What to do?

Definition of the new tagset has to be complete of 2002. Minimally,
it has to be expressed entirely in XML, and it has to be a TEI
topping. Thereafter, the Council needs to express its views on the
timetable, on the priorities, and how to divide up the work.

Here is a set of stalking horses for the Council to discuss:

  1. The proposal for "son of ODD" markup should be completed by
     12/2002. Responsibility for the initial draft to lie with 
     LB and SR.

  2. At the start of 2003, we 
      a) release (hopefully) a P4 supplement with the character set
         revision and the manuscript additional tagset
      b) start a public consultation about
         omissions/additions/corrections of tags and tagsets
        (coordinated by SB)
      c) release a table of contents for P5

  3. in 3/2003, we make a public statement about where the TEI is
     going with regard to W3C standards, linking etc; it is clear
     at this point how P5 is going to work.

  4. from 01/2003 to 06/2003, P5 is on the table and open
     for dissection

  5. at the end of 06/2002, P5 is stabilized and is open for content editing

  6. In 12/2003, we release a beta version of P5, for publication in
     2004


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