[tei-council] on META and P5EC

[Lou Burnard]

Maybe it would be useful for Council to address the question of whether 
or not a distinct P5 Editorial Committee should be set up separately 
from the question of whether or not the Meta workgroup needs to continue 
to exist.

In my opinion, at least, Syd is right to say that there are interesting 
areas not directly related to the production of P5 which we might to 
address in the future by means of something like a Meta workgroup 
(though I think its membership needs some more attention). But the 
current highest priority is to work on P5, for which I continue to think 
a small focussed group like that proposed might be a useful agency. Of 
course, if the Council members wish to take on that job, and have the 
time and energy to discharge it properly, that would be excellent.

Lou

Syd Bauman wrote:

> Sebastian & Lou have suggested in TCW05
> (http://www.tei-c.org/Council/tcw05.html) that "Council may wish to
> consider replacing the current Meta work-group with a new 'P5
> Editorial Committee'". While I think consideration may be a useful
> exercise, at the moment I think Council should reject this idea.
> 
> META should not be disbanded. While their work has reached an
> important stage, and they are taking a well-deserved and appropriate
> respite, it is not a foregone conclusion that there won't be more
> work to do. Besides major issues like co-occurrence constraints and
> the Durand conundrum, there are also minor issues that may arise,
> including delving further into the meaning and application of
> <equiv>, adding features for handling overlapping hierarchies easier,
> and constructing datatypes that more properly represent textual data
> (I'm thinking of dates & times here, but there may be others).
> 
> Moreover, I will not be at all surprised if the first time ODD is
> employed to create some other tagset (besides P5) problems we've not
> anticipated arise.
> 
> The general idea of a P5 editorial committee is probably a good one.
> But I'm of the (strong) opinion that Council *is* that committee.
> This is what you were elected to do. Being on Council involves work,
> including (to some extent) overseeing the editors, and you should be
> doing it. While Council has the authority to farm this responsibility
> out to another committee (and there may be reasons for doing so that
> Lou & Sebastian have thought of that haven't occurred to me), I'm of
> a mind that if it is too unwieldy to have all of Council more
> involved (and I'm inclined to say it shouldn't be), that Council
> should generate a subcommittee of itself for this purpose.
> 
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