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

[Kevin Hawkins]

Ranjith, just checking that I haven't missed a reply from you ...

On 11/27/2012 9:47 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> 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
>>
>>