[tei-council] Revised AB

[Arianna Ciula]

Lou Burnard wrote:
> Arianna Ciula wrote:
>> My comments and spotted typos:
>>
>> - "They are addressed to anyone who works with any kind of textual 
>> resource in digital form." --> in the humanities? you stress this in 
>> other sections but not at the beginning; may be it isn't necessary in 
>> the first sentence, but around there at least.
> 
> Ooo, cue big debate.  I disagree that we "stress" this in other 
> sections: in fact there is only *one* place where it says that the scope 
> of the TEI is limited to the Humanities, and I wasn't too sure about 
> leaving that one. In its defence is the fact that the sentence is 
> talking about what the TEI currently does, rather than its potential 
> field of application. Whereas the first sentence is definitely about its 
> potential and goals. I would rather not limit these.

I did think this must have been a bigger issue than a dropped word.... 
No time for debates now. I do agree that TEI should not limit its 
application to any disciplinary boundaries, but we cannot not recognise 
that is the formalisation of methodologies related to the analysis of 
texts in the humanities that made TEI what it is now and it is in that 
context that its recommendations are made fruitful.


>> - "Moreover, as far as possible, new minor releases will be made only 
>> for the purpose of adding new compatible features, or of correcting 
>> errors in existing features." --> can something be added about the 
>> documentation of these minor releases? where can people find what 
>> changes have been made in a summary?
> 
> err, I am not sure how we'd provide that information. Do you think 
> pointing to SourceForge is enough?

Again no time for finding solutions to these problems now, so I think a 
link to Sourceforge would be enough here, but we do need to think of how 
to summarise changes every time there is a new release in a more 
narrative way in the future.

The discussion on TEI list during the recent months demonstrated how 
much this is needed and although this was a special situation, I believe 
we need to tackle the issue of documenting changes in a stable manner, 
no matter how minor these changes may be.

Thanks,
Arianna
> 
>>

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Dr Arianna Ciula
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Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
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London WC2R 2LS (UK)
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