[tei-council] Criteria for TEI Repository Inclusion

James Cummings James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Wed Mar 3 06:36:36 EST 2010


Lou Burnard wrote:
> So I suppose what James meant to say was that the TEI wiki has a place 
> for putting *information about* customisations (and links to their 
> canonical homes if any)?

Well and indeed I said: "When we get the tei-enrich google code 
site sorted out, I will be putting a link to that on the TEI 
wiki" as an example of this.

But I still disagree with Sebastian's central assumption.  While 
I'm not suggesting that ODDs should really be managed in a wiki, 
or that this is the best technology to use, it is plainly not the 
case that ODDs are software.  Yes, we can use software-tools to 
manage them and there is nothing wrong with that, but ODDs as 
meta-schema and documentation especially when being 
collaboratively authored might benefit from collaborative 
authoring tools, like say wikis. Alternatively, when an ODD 
reaches a certain stability I see no problem having it in a wiki 
page with accompanying documentation about how to use it and why 
it was made. It is just one tool in the toolbox.

-James

>> no. cos wikis are not, by any stretch of the imagination,
>>  the right tool for software distribution. IMHO.


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