[tei-council] Fwd: Re: Google Books > TEI

[Kevin Hawkins]

Hi Ranjith,

Any progress on deployment of TEI export capability in Google Books?

If not, perhaps we can supplement the info at 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PWBt_y-svn8ESAFDz1KxZinKXxc9dfn6kj5sbsIbBR0/edit 
by setting up a form in Google Drive where we ask one or two questions 
of the community (like "If Google Books made public domain titles 
available to download as TEI documents, how would you use these?") and 
let people fill in free-form responses.  I can circulate send the link 
to the form to the TEI email list in the hope of getting a broader set 
of responses than just the few of us who have been editing the Google 
Drive document above.  What do you think?

--Kevin

On 3/9/2012 12:39 PM, Ranjith Unnikrishnan wrote:
> That's a great idea, James. I look forward to getting your collective input.
>
> Best,
> ~R
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:30 AM, James Cummings
> <James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk <mailto:James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/03/12 18:48, Ranjith Unnikrishnan wrote:
>
>         I'm looking for formal justification from you for our producing
>         and making TEI files available for download on Google Books. Both
>         require our commitment of several resources for the long term eg.
>         for updating and maintaining code, making necessary changes in
>         our processing pipeline, maintaining the download functionality
>         for the lifetime of Google Books, committing to the extra storage
>         space and computation etc. I have some anecdotal knowledge of why
>         TEI is important, and have already spent a substantial amount of
>         personal time writing the code and vetting the converted TEI
>         output along with various interested parties; so we know it is
>         possible and obviously I have an interest in seeing this all the
>         way through. But since this will be "product"-level decision,
>         there are others who will need to be convinced and will ask the
>         big questions such as:
>
>
>     Hi Ranjith,
>
>     I'm more than happy to work with you in coming up with some
>     executive summary kind of answers to these questions if that will
>     help. How about I share a google doc with you and some of the others
>     of the ad hoc working group.
>
>
>         Hope that makes sense. I'm just trying to move this effort
>         forward with your input.
>
>
>     We really appreciate that and all your hard work. We're more than
>     happy to work with you in any way to benefit TEI users.
>
>     I'll share a google doc link from my gapps account soon.
>
>
>     -James
>
>     --
>     Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
>     Computing Services, University of Oxford
>
>