[tei-council] [Fwd: Humanites E-Book]

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Oct 15 10:19:07 EDT 2009


Thanks David for this excellent suggestion.

Meanwhile, i think it would be useful to start work on seeing just how 
close to being a pure TEI subset the dtd actually is, modulo a few tag 
renamings.... I'm happy to look into that next week.

Lou

David Sewell wrote:
> All,
>
> There are indeed political considerations here, and we need to proceed
> sensitively.
>
> Earlier this year, the ACLS Humanities E-Book folks put together a
> proposal to expand their system so that the broad range of publishers
> represented by the AAUP (Association of American University Presses,
> which covers US + Canada plus publishers with branches here, like Oxford
> and Cambridge) could include all sorts of monographs within that system.
> I have not been directly involved in talks about that, but the director
> of U of Virginia Press has. She also knows the directors of ACLS
> Humanities E-Book, Eileen Gardiner and Ron Musto, better than I do (I
> was one a panel with them once). In addition, she is a past president of
> the AAUP.
>
> Let me suggest that I ask Penny whether she would feel comfortable
> raising with them on our (TEI Council's) behalf the concern about
> compatibility with TEI P5 and the offer to collaborate on mapping. We
> can put this in the context of increasing use of TEI as an archival and
> publishing standard, and the desirability of avoiding "orphan"
> implementations of TEI. At the same time we need to recognize that the
> ACLS has a viable, longstanding, working publication platform, and I
> would hope that we can extend an offer of collaboration without seeming
> too colonial ("bringing the light of P5 civilisation to the quaint
> tribal cultures").
>
> Does that make sense?
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Lou wrote:
>
>   
>> I agree 100% that this is the right course of action from the Council's
>> point of view.
>>
>> There remains the political question of how this disagreeable state of
>> affairs came into being but we probably don't want to discuss that here.
>>
>> Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>>     
>>> It would be great to learn more about that "local practice" so that it
>>> can be mapped to P5 (and/or, perhaps in some cases, P5 adapted to admit it).
>>>
>>> (He says, speaking from EpiDoc experience of turning a _highly_
>>> customized P4 DTD into a fully conformant P5 schema.)
>>>
>>> G
>>>
>>> Lou Burnard a écrit :
>>>       
>>>> I received the following from Kevin and am meditating a reply.
>>>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: Humanites E-Book
>>>> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:59:28 +0100
>>>> From: Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info>
>>>> To: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk>, "Paul F. Schaffner"
>>>> <PFSchaffner at umich.edu>
>>>>
>>>> Per the conversation at Council that Paul mentioned to me, Humanities
>>>> E-book requires publishers to provide XML in a format that my
>>>> predecessors defined for them.  It's derived from the Text Class DTD
>>>> used in DLXS, which in turn is derived from TEI Lite P3, with local
>>>> practice grafted on top.
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