[tei-council] NASA looking to digitize Wernher von Braun's Notes

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at loria.fr
Wed Jul 1 03:18:26 EDT 2009


That's a very good summary of a feasible strategy. Who would volunteer  
to take the lead on this (from council or board)?
Laurent

Le 30 juin 09 à 23:07, Daniel Paul O'Donnell a écrit :

> So, shall we propose a TEI answer to the RFI, which helps us position
> ourselves as an organisation, perhaps in cooperation with some members
> who would be interested in proposing a bid in response to and RFP  
> should
> things get that far?
>
> We'd need to run this by the Board if it is to be a TEI answer to the
> RFI, and I'd say we might want to put out a call for interested  
> parties
> to work with us and, if it gets that far, submit any actual bids.  
> But I
> think that might be a very good approach: the TEI as a semi-standards
> organisation is in a good position to give relatively distinterested
> answers to the RFI; and by associating with the TEI on the RFI,  
> members
> who might be interested in submitting a bid help profile themselves
> early in the process.
>
> What do others think?
>
> -dan
>
>
>
> David Sewell wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> certainly I think Oxford would be interested in joining a tender
>>> if we get that far. I wonder if NASA would allow non-US offers?
>>>
>>
>> Considering the background of Wernher von Braun, it would be  
>> intensely
>> ironic if they did not...
>>
>>
>
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