[Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders at Brown.edu>] Re: Documents to be reviewed before Council call on March 30

[Susan Schreibman]

I wholeheartedly agree with Lou's last point! An encoding scheme to encode
details of physical bibliographical
information would be a welcome addition to the TEI Guidelines.

usan

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From: "Lou Burnard" <lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To: <tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders at Brown.edu>] Re: Documents to be
reviewed before Council call on March 30

<p>> For what it's worth, ye olde TEI did try to establish a workgroup on
> this very topic, and we identified quite a few people who had relevant
> expertise on this side of the pond at that time. I could reactivate a
> few contacts here if you like. If we're talking about people with
> expertise in early print, I would have thought the EEBO folks should be
> able to suggest a few names too.
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> And yes, there is enormous overlap with the "physical description" folks
> in manuscript world too.
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> But the real principle is, I think, that any group of motivated people
> wishing to work in an area where we know the TEI needs some work done
> should be cherished and encouraged, especially if they dont want any
> money from us!
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> Lou
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> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > Julia Flanders wrote:
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> >> a) the proposal indicates only a minimal request for money (about $250
> >> for conference calls); if the question is "do they *really* need
> >> money?" then I think probably the answer is no, the workgroup could
> >> get by without it; if the council said "go ahead, but no money", I
> >> think we'd probably agree.
> >>
> > ok, that makes it a bit easier
> >
> >> b) not sure what you mean, but let me know if there are particular
> >> standards or "standards" you have in mind, because we would certainly
> >> want to address this.
> >>
> > no, I have no special ideas. just a vague assumption that someone else
> > must have been at this. is there
> > some overlap with Manuscript folk, who describe physical state?
> >
> >> t's an Anglo-centric area of interest.
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> >
> > thats a bit worrying :-}
> >
> > Sebastian
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