[tei-council] Suggestions

[Lou Burnard]

I'm not sure when I'll be able to join the call (it seems to have moved 
its time back two hours from what Sebastian told me) so I will just 
comment here on a couple of Peter's suggestions.

Peter Boot wrote:
>
> * Many people still ask 'why should I bother with xml when I can put my
> text on a web page and be done with it?' Can't we create a book (or a
> perhaps a special issue of a TEI-friendly journal) with a number of
> articles that show the advantages of structured encoding for indexing,
> text analysis, publication, annotation, visualization, etc.?
>
>   
This has of course been done before -- but that's certainly no reason 
not to do it again.

> Organisation of the council
>
> * Shouldn't we have a searchable council mailing list? If needed, I
> believe I can set up a listserv list at surfnet.nl
>   
I thought it was searchable? It's certainly archived. However, a 
listserv hosted at surfnet.nl might well be a bit  more reliable than 
the council list has been for the last year or so!


>
> And one more thing:
> Extension of the Guidelines
> Peter Robinson has been circulating a proposal for facilitating
> distributed editions that implies the need for a number of new TEI
> attributes. These attributes would make it possible to create linkages
> between multiple versions of a single text, and as such facilitate an
> integrated presentation of related resources to users. It builds on the
> work done by Neel Smith for the Canonical Text Services Protocol. I
> think we should discuss with Peter how this might be implemented.
>
>   

I discussed this with Peter Robinson a few months back, and I think I 
persuaded him at that time that he didn't need all those extra 
attributes. But maybe his ideas have moved on since then. Certainly, I 
agree with you that it's an interesting idea worth pursuing, and we 
should actively seek a proposal from him or others interested in the idea.