agenda for Tuesday's conference call

[John Unsworth]

Folks,

Here's the agenda for the TEI Conference Call.  If I've forgotten anything, 
bring it up under item 0, amendments to the agenda.

John

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TEI Council Conference Call

Date: Tuesday, March 18th

Time: The call will take place at the usual time--1 pm UTC (adjust for your 
local time...which you can do at
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html).  As a reminder, 
that's 5 am in California, 8 am in Indiana and on the East Coast, 1 pm in 
London and elsewhere in that time zone, and so on, until 10 pm in Japan.

Numbers:  for conference call:  +1 812-856-3550, Passcode 0612#
              for help during conference call (Jen Riley): +1 812-856-5759
              Perry's phone number (busy during conference call):  +1 812-855-9290

Duration: The agenda (below) is for a 90-minute call.

Minutes: The minutes from our last meeting are at 
http://www.tei-c.org/Council/tcm04.html

Agenda:

0. Amendments to the agenda

1. Approve EDW78 (on the handling of non-trivial revisions to the 
guidelines) at http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/edw78.html

2. Report from Chris Ruotolo on the XML migration workgroup

3. Report from Christian Wittern on the question of text in attribute 
values: see 
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0468.html and 
Sebastian's brief response, 
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/tei-council/0469.html

4. Report from David Durand on Standoff Markup 
(http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SO/)

5. Manuscript Description:  Merrilee will need to give us a report on where 
things are with Consuelo, and then Matthew Driscoll should be given 
permission to proceed with the task force on manuscript 
description.  Council members can find materials from Consuelo's group at 
http://www.merrilee.org/tei-mss/

6. Report from Sebastian on the architectural issues working group--who is 
on it, how it's working, whether it's made any progress, etc.

7. Report from Laurent and possibly Lou about the feature-structures 
working group (see proposed charter for feature-structure workgroup at 
http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Council/tcw01.html -- but there's nothing there at 
the moment -- and draft of the letter proposing a TEI liaison to ISO on 
feature structures at http://www.tei-c.org/Council/LiaisonLetter.htm)

8. Task force on trees and graphs.  Materials at 
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/GD/.  His draft call for participation 
(which could serve as a charge to the task force, in slightly different 
form) looks like this:

        Graphs, Networks and Trees! Oh, My! Graphs, Networks and Trees! Oh My!

        Well, at least you won't have to worry about flying monkeys in the TEI 
task force on possible revision of Chapter 21, 	Graphs, Networks and Trees 
of TEI P4.

        This informal task force is limited to considering the question of whether 
Chapter 21 should be revised, should it 	simply incoporate some other 
markup standard or simply refer readers elsewhere.

        At the heart of such an inquiry, is a comparison of the current TEI with 
other graph encoding methods. In other 	words, does TEI provide any 
capabilities not found elsewhere and does it lack abilities found 
elsewhere? (The 	useage of the TEI graph chapter should also be considered.)

        No physical meetings will be held and to ease the reading burden, 
summaries of both the current Chapter 21 as 	well as the extant 
alternatives have been prepared for your review. Suggestions of other 
alternatives and corrections 	to the proposed summaries are welcome.

        Discussions and drafting of the report will be conducted entirely by 
email. With the provided summaries, it should 	not require more than 20-30 
hours total, to participate in this task force up to the filing of its 
final report.

        The final deliverable will be a very short, 3-5 page report to the TEI 
Council on the recommendations of the task 	force. All participants will be 
listed at the conclusion of that report. (Here is your chance to help with 
the ongoing 	revision of the TEI Guidelines, along with public 
acknowledgement of your role.)

<p>9. Update from Perry on the IMLS proposal, if any

10. Report from Alois on EU grant prospects, if any.

11. May Council meeting

12. Other business