[tei-council] TEI panel at DH

Arianna Ciula arianna.ciula at kcl.ac.uk
Sat Jun 21 10:58:56 EDT 2008 

Dear all,

please find below a possible outline for my presentation at DH this year 
and let me know what you think. I have some questions still:

- David: is it right to say that the Correspondence workgroup has become 
a SIG? I don't think so...
- All: Personography Workgroup --> I have included this among the 
completed activities. Fine?
- Lou and Laurent: ISO activity on feature structure is completed now, 
right?
- Sebastian: want to send me that page in Chinese? or tell me where to 
take a screenshot or something that is up to date?
- Laurent and Oxford: any news on ISO standards documents in ODD?
- Dan: does TEI Tite fits where I put it?
- Lou: can I have some details on that French initiative please?
- Laurent: 'with W3C' --> should I refer to a specific collaboration 
here or leave it as a general statement?
- Peter: do you think I should say something more about the training 
online handbook?
- All: I'd like to say something about the discussion we had on 
extending and making the set of stylesheets more usable. Hope that's fine.
- All: Note that the tei council annual reports for 2006 and 2007 are 
missing from the website: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Reports/


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TEI Council: Mission and Activities

*Mission*
Council: An assembly called together for any purpose; a convocation or 
congregation … An advisory or deliberative assembly (OED)
- TEI council:
   - responsible for the technical development of the TEI guidelines 
recommends, evaluates, and implements new features and modifications of 
existing features, and supervises the overall development of each new 
version of the Guidelines
   - new bylaws:
1.	collect, propose, evaluate, and implement editorial changes to the 
TEI Guidelines (and its derivatives)
2.	produce up-to-date documentation for the TEI
3.	propose and assist in the preparation of training documents and 
tutorials; evaluate agreements for official TEI-C training, services, 
and collaborations and make recommendations to the TEI-C Board 
concerning endorsement of such training, services, and collaborations

*Not Secret Council*
- Mailing list archives: 
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/
- Face to face yearly meetings (more frequent meetings under discussion) 
and monthly teleconferences (frequency highly dependent on workload)
    - Reports available: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/
- At the next TEI annual Members' Meeting the Council will present a 
report on current work
   - 6-8 November 2008, King’s College London, London – 
http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/

*Maintaining the Guidelines*
- Bug and feature requests
   - Report to TEI L (when doubtful, controversial or more discussion 
needed)
   - Submit directly to and see progress in SourceForge - 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/
- Missing “components”
- New chapters

*TEI Workgroups*
- Usually based on needs of the community (constant monitoring of TEI L)
- Often chartered by the council to recommend extensions or 
modifications to the TEI Guidelines
- Currently active:
   - Correspondence --> now become a SIG
   - Physical Bibliography Workgroup - Chartered in May 2004; chaired by 
Murray McGillivray
- Completed:
   - Personography Workgroup - Chartered in January 2006; chaired by 
Matthew Driscoll
   - Character Encoding Workgroup - Chaired by Christian Wittern
   - Metalanguage Workgroup - Chaired by Sebastian Rahtz
   - Migration Workgroup - Chaired by Chris Ruotolo
   - Stand-Off Markup Workgroup - Chaired by David Durand
   - Manuscript Description Task Force

*Other Council Activities*
- Internationalization and Localization of the guidelines – supported by 
ALLC
- Strategic technical collaborations
   - Working with other standards
     - With ISO
       - Activity on Feature Structures
       - Write ISO standards documents in ODD
     - With W3C?
     - Involvement in French initiative?
     - TEI Tite
- Individual contributions
    - Trainings (but see below)
    - METS
    - Open Office

*Internationalization and Localization*
http://www.tei-c.org/Tools/I18N/
- a working architecture for internationalization of the TEI source
- internationalized stylesheets for delivery of the reference section of 
TEI guidelines
- translations of the TEI reference documentation into 6 languages
   - Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
   - plus 2: Portuguese, Russian
- further translation efforts to be undertaken on a volunteer basis, or 
to be supported by further funding if available

*Advise, Support and Outreaching*
Council: A body of men (AND WOMEN) chosen or designated as permanent 
advisers on matters of … esp. to advise and assist in ... (OED)

- Council meetings associated with local symposia
- Period of reassessment after launch of P5
   - embody new strategy statement especially on outreaching
   - towards this direction
     - working online handbook on ‘How to’
     - focus on examples and stylesheets
     - work on website

*Elected council*
  - If member or subscriber: Remember to vote!



Arianna Ciula wrote:
> Indeed, when I said work groups I didn't mean the SIGs, but the task 
> forces chartered by the council. Sometimes these become SIGs, but not 
> always and not necessarily, since their work may be intense and brief 
> and their outcome sort of confined (e.g. persons and places groups and 
> possibly the current physical bibliography group).
> 
> Arianna
> 
> Laurent Romary wrote:
>> Arianna,
>> Susan will actually make a presentation about SIG's there: you can also 
>> have a look at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/index.xml
>> Laurent
>>
>> Le 10 juin 08 à 11:06, Arianna Ciula a écrit :
>>
>>> It would be useful to have a summary of all the current work groups. I 
>>> will have between 5 to 8 minutes to talk, so I may have to compress 
>>> information in the slides, but in any case, it would be useful for me 
>>> to have a better understanding to answer questions and be really aware 
>>> of what's happening.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Arianna
>>>
>>> Lou Burnard wrote:
>>>> We should also maybe have a brief report on the new French 
>>>> initiatibve from
>>>> Bertrand and other colleagues maybe... I will see what can be done in 
>>>> time.
>>>> Greetings from Belgrade, where the keyboard is a little strange.
>>>> In message <EFE3C466-64DF-4A6A-B2CD-8B329FFC7FCB at loria.fr> Laurent 
>>>> Romary
>>>> <laurent.romary at loria.fr> writes:
>>>>> OK. I open the fire. I am just wondering whether online 
>>>>> brainstorming  would work. Here below is a few lines of thought for 
>>>>> us as council.
>>>>> I will gather keywords, ideas, development about this, both in the  
>>>>> details, but also on the basic question: "does it match what we are  
>>>>> trying to do"?
>>>>>
>>>>> TEI council � strategy statement
>>>>> Main orientation for the council in the coming period
>>>>>
>>>>> Maintaining the guidelines
>>>>>
>>>>> Bug and feature reports
>>>>> Missing �components�
>>>>> New chapters
>>>>> Connection with communities
>>>>>
>>>>> Chertered group with a focused mission
>>>>> Libraries
>>>>> Strategic technical collaborations
>>>>>
>>>>> W3C, ISO
>>>>> Outreaching
>>>>>
>>>>> �TEI for the dummies�
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 9 juin 08 � 12:06, Arianna Ciula a �crit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> together with Peter, James, John, and some other people outside the
>>>>>> council, I have been invited to participate to the TEI panel to be  
>>>>>> held
>>>>>> this year at the Digital Humanities Conference in Oulu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can choose to talk about a TEI feature of my interest, but Susas
>>>>>> suggested that I might be able to update the audience on the Council
>>>>>> activities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To do so, I think I need your input, since after the involvement 
>>>>>> of  all
>>>>>> of us in sharing the workload to produce P5, it seems to me we 
>>>>>> have  firm
>>>>>> objectives and mission, but may be still a blurred horizon with
>>>>>> decisions and roles to be defined better.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, before I decide to talk about us, suggestions, contributions,
>>>>>> comments are welcome!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Arianna
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Dr Arianna Ciula
>>>>>> Research Associate
>>>>>> Centre for Computing in the Humanities
>>>>>> King's College London
>>>>>> 2nd Floor
>>>>>> 26-29 Drury Lane
>>>>>> London WC2B 5RL (UK)
>>>>>> Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945
>>>>>> http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~aciula/
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>>> -- 
>>> Dr Arianna Ciula
>>> Research Associate
>>> Centre for Computing in the Humanities
>>> King's College London
>>> 2nd Floor
>>> 26-29 Drury Lane
>>> London WC2B 5RL (UK)
>>> Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945
>>> http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~aciula/
> 

-- 
Dr Arianna Ciula
Research Associate
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
2nd Floor
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL (UK)
Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~aciula/

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