[tei-council] Editorial work after 17 sept

Christian Wittern cwittern at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 19:27:03 EDT 2007


Dear Council members,

This sounds like an excellent plan to me.  I think it should be of 
highest priority to us to let the Editors do the editing and the plan 
laid out here looks like it is going to make sure we do assign our 
scarce resources in the best possible way.  As Lou is pointing out here, 
the publishing task itself seems to be coming along pretty well and can 
be re-assigned differently if that becomes necessary.  So I for one 
encourage you to go ahead with this plan and hope that we do indeed have 
the drafts ready as required! 

All the best,

Christian

Lou Burnard wrote:
> [I meant to bring this up in the call, but didn't get round to it.]
>
> Syd and I had a brief discussion about how best to get the
> copy-editing/proof-reading etc. done once the text is locked to me
> for final corrections on 17 Sep.
>
> We agreed that the chances of getting a complete professional proof
> reading job done before the Members Meeting is null. We also agreed that
> leaving the text unreviewed by anyone after I've had my wicked way with
> it is undesirable. We kicked around the idea of drafting in some extra
> hands to the job -- both at Oxford and Brown we could identify people
> who could usefully and reliably do some checking if they had the time,
> or we could maybe farm the whole job out to the whole TEI community.
>
> The conclusions we reached are as follows (Syd, please correct me if I
> misrepresent your view)
>
> 1. We are trying to produce the best possible online readable text we
> can for the MM. We are not trying to produce a completely wart-free
> professional-publication-standard document, yet. At this 1.0 release the
> technical specs (the schemas) are fixed, but not (necessarily) all the
> spelling errors.
>
> 2. However, we do want to make sure that the prose is clear, consistent,
> comprehensible etc. That's what I am doing, post Sept 17: checking that
> we always say "you do" or "one does", that the headings are cased
> consistently, that set phrases such as "To include this module in a
> schema..." or "This constraint cannot be expressed in the schema but may
> be instantiated by means of a Schematron rule" are deployed
> consistently; etc.
>
> 3. I need someone to do a reality check on what I have done and ring
> alarm bells wherever I have messed up. This naturally would be the
> responsibility of the other editor, and other duties permitting, Syd
> is willing and able to do some of this task. (We had hoped that he
> could co-ordinate its being done by others, but this looks difficult
> given the current timetable).
>
> 4. Based on the recommendation of the planning committee, Council
> allocated Syd the task of co-ordinating publishing/production issues,
> liaising amongst James, Dot, Sebastian, and Chris. This was during
> the early August conference call. On the basis of what we've seen so
> far, progress on these has been good, and we would therefore like
> Council to reconsider the relatively priority he should allocate to
> that task.
>
> 5. Our preferred plan of campaign is that, as I complete my sweep
> through a chapter I will pass it over to Syd for review. He may be able
> to farm it out to someone else, he may not. Either way, there will be a
> deadline (typically of a few days) by which the chapter must be either
> signed off, or marked as unproofed.
>
> We think this process is likely to result in a better quality product
> without slowing down production, and without requiring more than our
> already strained resources can cope with. But it does require that
> Syd not be spending too much time on publishing/production issues.
> Is there more to this task that we are missing, or is it reasonable
> to believe that this won't eat up the majority of Syd's time during
> the 17 Sep to 19 Oct period?
>
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 Christian Wittern 
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