ISO/TEI Feature Structure Activity

[Lou Burnard]

Dear Laurent

If the TEI/ISO activity is a TEI work group, what is its membership? and
should it have an email list to use when formulating comments on the draft?

My answers to these questions are that the membership is probably as given
in the draft Charter document we worked on several months back
(http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Activities/FS/tcw01.html)  -- but I can't find any
record of your having confirmed that so I am a bit reluctant to start
banging emails off to the people listed there.  In fact I have already set
up a mailing list for them, but I don't think it should be announced until
you confirm the membership is correct.

In the mean time, I have now read the draft document and have some comments,
which I propose to share with the Council, since I believe that my job as
liaison for the committee is to convey the overall views of the TEI.

By the way, Laurent, since I see you are in perfidious Albion later this
month, would you like to make a day trip to Oxford before the LSP
conference? We could probably spend some useful time on this and on TEI-2003
face to face... and maybe you'd like to catch up on things at the OTA?

best wishes

Lou

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU
[mailto:owner-tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU]On Behalf Of Laurent
Romary
  Sent: 29 July 2003 10:03
  To: tei-council at lists.village.virginia.edu
  Cc: Terry Langendoen; gary_simons at sil.org; Kiyong Lee
  Subject: Re: ISO/TEI Feature Structure Activity

<p>  Dear all,
  This is a good opportunity to provide input on the status and agenda of
the Feature Structure activity from the ISO point of view:
  - Feature Structure Representation has been unanimously approved as a new
work item proposal with number ISO/CD 24610-1
  - at the ISO TC37/SC4 meeting in Sapporo in the beginning of July, a
resolution encouraged the project leader, Kiyong Lee to proceed to the next
stage, that is a CD (committee draft) ballot: such a ballot (3 months) is
the main stage at which precise comments about the documents are made
  - Since the agendas would fit perfectly, I suggested that there could be a
working group meeting right before the TEI member's meeting in Nancy, where
we would discuss the comments received and decide on how to implement them.
This meeting could take place on Wednesday, 5th and Thursday 6th Nov.
  - If necessary, our Corean colleagues would be ready to host a second
meeting in Corea in February 2004, to prepare the DIS (Draft of
International Standard) that would go to its final 5 months ballot.

  The meeting in Nancy would make sure that we have people from both SC4 and
the TEI, and also would allow close synchronization with Sebastian work on
the corresponding Schemas.
  Best,
  Laurent

  Le lundi, 28 juil 2003, à 12:27 Europe/Paris, Lou Burnard a écrit :

<p>    I received this morning a draft for the revised version of the TEI
    chapter on feature structures which is currently being groomed for
    progress as an ISO standard by a work group of ISO TC 37/SC4, (or, from
    the TEI perspective, by the Council's Workgroup on feature structures)

    As TEI liaison person to the group, I have to report comments and vote
    on the draft by October of this year. I would therefore very much
    appreciate feedback from the Council or any other informed TEI persons
    as soon as possible. Write to me or to the Council list as you see fit.
    At the Council's last meeting, concern was raised about the short time
    scale available for significant comments before the text goes into the
    ISO mill, so there is a degree of urgency attached to this request.

    I have just posted the draft, as I received it, on the TEI members-only
    website at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/FS/
    If you need reminding of the password, please let me (not the list)
    know.

    Note that this version requires you to install a Korean font on your
    system: if you use Acrobat Reader v 6 and you're online at the time,
    this will be done quasi-automatically for you. If you're not, it won't.
    I've written to the editor of the draft asking for a less
    internationalized version, and hope to have a fix shortly. Again, please
    let me (not the list) know if this is a problem for you.

    Lou