[tei-council] removing and renaming XML files

[Kevin Hawkins]

On 4/20/2012 1:41 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> On 20/04/12 14:14, Piotr Bański wrote:
>> On 20/04/12 08:33, stuart yeates wrote:
>> [..]
>>> I would also like to rename:
>>>
>>> P5/Source/Guidelines/*/DI-PrintDictionaries.xml
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> P5/Source/Guidelines/*/DI-Dictionaries.xml
>>>
>>> because this chapter covers born-digital dictionaries too.
>
>
> I don't think changing the filename of this chapter is warranted as yet.
> There was some discussion about extending its coverage so as to deliver
> more specifically on the promise made in its first chapter that its
> content could also be applied to non-print dictionaries, but so far that
> extension  hasn't happened yet.

Lou, do you mean "the promise made in the first section of this chapter"?

The title of the chapter given in the HTML and PDF versions of the 
Guidelines is already "Dictionaries", not "Print Dictionaries", so I 
think Piotr is suggesting renaming the file to match the human-readable 
form actually in use.

 > Unless and until it does, I think this
> change would be a needless additional complication, needlessly messing
> up links to the chapter (of which there are probably many more than
> there are links to its component sections).
>
> People use the content  of the msDescription chapter to describe things
> that aren't manuscripts too.

Yes, and this causes confusion because people who are working with 
printed works aren't sure whether to use this chapter.  On this note, I 
think I've found a chair for a rechartered physical bibliography group 
who can lead the many people who have expressed interest in the group 
but been unwilling to lead the effort.  I asked her to draft a new 
charter that I could share with Council before the group gets started 
(in case we feel they are headed in entirely the wrong direction).