[tei-council] minutes/release deadline

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at inria.fr
Sat Nov 12 00:50:56 EST 2011


Le 11 nov. 2011 à 23:02, Martin Holmes a écrit :

> Should I turn them all into TEI then, and pass them to David for 
> publication on the site? If so, I think I'll wait for all changes to be 
> made by the rest of Council.

That's exactly it. The current environment is ideal for putting together a stable version of the minutes. Afterwords, you'll have time to TEIfy the thing and we should keep the wikipage accessible so that I can advertize the minutes quickly.

> 
> Who TEI-ed the previous minutes? Is there a schema for them? Can I see 
> the XML? There doesn't seem to be an XML link on the page, which means 
> they're not actually available as TEI, nor would anyone know they were TEI.
> I did do the last day in TEI, but now they've been wiki-edited, my TEI 
> doesn't match the agreed version, so I'll have to mark them up again.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> On 11-11-11 03:46 PM, David Sewell wrote:
>> On Nov 11, 2011, at 4:41 AM, Piotr Bański wrote:
>> 
>>> * is there a deadline for publishing the minutes to e.g. the tei-c site,
>>> or will they remain at the wiki? Or is there a deadline for some
>>> official announcement of their existence?
>> 
>> Council minutes have in the past always been posted to http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/index.xml. In principle there's no reason additions to that list could not point to a page on the TEI wiki instead of to a static XML file. But that would be establishing a significantly new precedent.
>> 
>> Offhand, here are the advantages and disadvantages I can see for moving Council minutes to the Wiki:
>> 
>> PRO:
>> 
>> - Speeds up the process of moving from draft to corrections to publication
>> - Easier to edit, requires only TEI wiki account and basic knowledge of wiki syntax, no need to convert the final form to TEI
>> 
>> CON:
>> 
>> - Search queries on tei-c.org apparently do not return TEI wiki pages (is this something that can be adjusted via Google settings?)
>> - Sends possibly the wrong message about the utility of TEI markup?
>> - Some increased security risk, easier for someone with evil intentions to vandalize the page
>> 
>> David
>> 
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