[tei-council] experimental modules?

[Kevin Hawkins]

To address those questions of Lou's that I feel I can address ...

On 9/4/2012 12:02 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Once you start looking there are quite a few things to improve on this page...
>
> 1. Why is there a link to the doc for Lite but not for any of the others?

I assume Lou is referring to 
http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/ and not 
http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/odds.xml .  The former 
includes a link to the HTML and PDF versions of Lite and Tite.  Only 
these are included because they are on the only ones I have ever found 
within http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-exemplars/ .  (I see that 
the PDF links no longer work.  Sebastian, have they moved?)

If we can and should produce documentation of the other customzations, I 
would be happy to add them to the site.

> 2. Why is ODD regarded as experimental or restricted? dont we want anyone to use it?

Right, this is what I've been trying to get at with this email thread.

> 3. On what basis are these "TEI community" customisations selected? Is MEP still being maintained or used? has it progressed beyond P3?

(These customizations are listed at 
http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/ .)

I'm not sure who created this list, but since becoming assistant 
webmaster for the TEI-C I have added the link to TEI with Music Notation 
after it was announced on TEI-L and added the Best Practices for TEI in 
Libraries to this list as we've agreed in our recent meetings.  My 
understanding is that any customization not maintained by the Council 
can be added here.  While we could formulate some sort of selection 
process, I find "TEI Community Customizations" to be clear that these 
are not endorsed by the TEI, so I'm not sure this is needed.  We could 
add a brief statement to this effect just after the heading.  Thoughts?

On the question of MEP, since the website no longer exists, I am not 
opposed to removing it from the list.  MEP is incidentally included in 
the list of projects on TEI website, so it won't disappear from the 
historical record by removing it.  Thoughts?

--Kevin