Agenda for conference call on Jan. 27th, 1300 UTC

[Christian Wittern]

TEI Council Members and Editors:

This is a reminder that the TEI Council will hold a conference call on 
Tuesday, January 27th, at 1300 UTC.  

Please read through the following, in advance of the call.  If you cannot 
take part, or are not ready to report as listed below, please let me 
know.  If you want council members to look at additional or different 
materials for something listed below, just send a note to 
tei-council at lists.village.virginia.edu.  If you think there should be other 
items on this agenda, let me know as soon as possible.

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Information is at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/tei/confcall.html

Expected to participate:

Syd Bauman, Alejandro Bia, David Birnbaum, Lou Burnard, Matthew
Driscoll, David Durand, Sebastian Rahtz, Laurent Romary, Natasha
Smith, Susan Schreibman, Edward Vanhoutte, Perry Willett, Christian
Wittern.

Christine Ruotolo will join us at the beginning for a few minutes.

<p>Agenda:

9 items, not more than 15 minutes apiece.

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1)  Update from Chris Ruotolo on the SGML-XML Migration Working Group  (10 
minutes)
Charter at http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/edw76.html
Materials at: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/MI/

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2) Minutes of the last conference call, minute-taker for this one. (15 minutes)

Minutes of the last call are at http://www.tei-c.org/Council/tcm08.html
Review of action items, progress.

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3) Update from Sebastian Rahtz on Metalanguage Workgroup (15 minutes)

Charge at: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/META/

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4) Update from Christian Wittern on Character Encoding Workgroup (10 minutes)

Charge at: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ce01.html

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5)  Update from David Durand on the Stand-Off Markup Working Group (10 minutes)
(Charter at http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/edw74.html, website http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SO/)

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6)  Report from Laurent Romary on progress of the Feature Structures Working Group.  (10 
minutes)

(Charter at http://www.tei-c.org/FS/tcw01.html, website http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/FS/)

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7) Proposal for a new workgroup by John Smith (10 minutes)

John Smith proposed a new workgoup (or maybe we should call it
task-force) for a very specific problem. We will need to discuss how
to handle this.  Please look at:
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/CE/sanskrit_proposal.pdf

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<p>8) TEI branded mailing-list etc (10 minutes)

As discussed previously, I see a need to have a more consolidated
information infrastructure for the TEI.  I hope we can come up with
some concrete ideas how to handle this.  Maybe this is an issue for
the Board?

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<p>9) Next Meetings: (5 minutes)

Next Council meeting, conference call in March?

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 Christian Wittern 
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN