[tei-council] report on what I have done, for council next week

[Sebastian Rahtz]

12 July. Report to TEI council by Sebastian Rahtz.

a) Roma.
 Current trac tickets reporting errors have been
 resolved. The next two tasks are:

 1. merge in Ioan Bernevig's "jerusalem" variant which
    provides sanity checking of an ODD
 2. bearing in mind the new strictures of customization,
    redesign Roma to put added elements in a new namespace
    by default.

b) TEI XSL stylesheets for generating schemas and documentations.
  Some items were cherry-picked from JC/DP's list of issues,
  and a new design for HTML display of reference material
  has been put into place.  The next two tasks are:
 
 1. implement any changes JC/DP request, if they involve
    complex hacking of the XSL (JC and DP will work on
    the CSS and obvious changes to XSL _ad lib_)

 2. re-start work on PDF generation to provide a framework for
    design work.

c) <appInfo> addition to the header.
  This has been designed, and agreed with Martin Holmes, and
  is awaiting agreement from Council; it also needs wrapping
  prose in the HD chapter.

d) The Implementation section of the "using TEI" chapter.
  The first draft of this is complete, but it will need
  thorough reviewing. I am hoping that our French colleagues
  can do a lot of feedback on this, notably the people at Nancy
  who have supervised Ioan Bernevig, and Sylvain Loiseau.

e) P5 release.
  I had planned a release last week, but at that point P5
  was broken (in a small way, regarding <cit>, but technically
  broke), so I have held off. Next weekend, maybe?

f) namesdates chapter.
  I have spent a fair amount of time working with this
  on real data, and have successfully used it for the
  Lexicon Of Greek Personal Names (65000 records) and a
  description of Oxford University (generating KML output).
  I have also made a conversion of sample data from
  the Barrington Atlas of the classical world, to assist
  Tom Elliott. This has shown up some issues about certainty
  and evidence which need to be resolved.

  On the back of this, it seems necessary to add @resp and @cert
  (ie att.editLike) to <place>, <org> and <person>, and to make
  @resp multi-valued. It would be good to have this confirmed.

  If I have any spare time, I will attempt to convert
  my Protestant Cemetery data to new canonical TEI format.

g) Internationalization translation of <desc> and <gloss>.
  This is proceeding. Japanese and Spanish are more or less
  fully in place. Italian is half-complete, the rest awaited
  daily. I am assured Chinese and German are done, but are not
  yet with me (I'll believe them when I see them...). French
  has been restarted by Jean-Luc Benoit after a hiatus caused
  by the death of Pierre-Yves Duchesmin, and I am assured that
  they will deliver.

  When all the translations are in, a major task for
  September is reconciliation and filling-in. All
  the translations need to be checked in cases where
  the English has changed (mercifully, not that many, I think);
  and translations must be added for <desc> and <gloss>
  added since the text was issued to translators. I am confident
  that generating the list of problems and tasks can
  be automated OK, and I will keep fingers crossed that the
  translators will come back and finish off.
 

h) I have entirely failed to look at the page facsimile things,
I am afraid

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Sebastian Rahtz      

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