[tei-council] SH-OtherMetadataStandards.xml: the missing chapter

[Lou Burnard]

Or you could just rename "Specs-Unused "to  "nowDefunct" and keep all 
the old superceded garbage in there.



On 17/03/13 21:31, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> To close the loop (you all know how much I like to do that), I now think
> it would be better to leave this unfinished work as is and focus
> instead, as we've previously discussed, on incorporating relevant
> portions of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries into the Guidelines.
>
> Still, since we have both Specs/ and Specs-Unused/ , what if we create a
> Guidelines-Unused/ to complement Guidelines/ ?  (And then we'd move
> SH-OtherMetadataStandards.xml to there.)
>
> --Kevin
>
> On 2/2/13 6:12 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> Ah, found it.
>>
>> http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/tcm30.xml (Minutes of
>> council meeting in Berlin, April 2007  at which all P5 chapters were
>> reviewed)
>>
>>
>> "SH-OtherMetadataStandards.xml
>>
>> MD recommends chapter be dropped. JW (co-author of the re-write)
>> concurs. JW was assigned to draft a few paragraphs discussing the
>> relationship between the TEI Header and other standards (including MARC
>> and Dublin Core) in general terms, without detailed mappings.
>>
>> Action 52: JW TRAC http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/trac/TEIP5/ticket/336 .
>> Draft paras on metadata standards 2007-05-05
>> Action 53: SB put JW paras in appropriate place at end of HD 2007-05-12"
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/02/13 23:06, Lou Burnard wrote:
>>> Well, here's my understanding of the history:
>>>
>>> Chapter SH was originally called "The Independent Header" and was
>>> drafted for P3 by Rich Giordano. This survived into P4, but in P5 was
>>> removed. In 2005 or so, when Natasha and John were both on Council, they
>>> volunteered to rework it as a survey of the way libraries in practice
>>> mapped TEI Header elements to other metadata standards. There are a few
>>> mentions of this work as being ongoing in the minutes of that year --
>>> not having all the minutes to hand I am not sure what happened to this
>>> work -- but doubt John can.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/02/13 22:08, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I just came across Source/Guidelines/en/SH-OtherMetadataStandards.xml .
>>>>       From comments in the file, it looks like John Walsh, Natasha Smith,
>>>> and others from the SIG on Libraries were once involved in drafting this
>>>> but it never made it into the Guidelines.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know whether this was rejected for inclusion in the
>>>> Guidelines, or was the work just never completed?  It includes a number
>>>> of things that made their way in some form into the latest revision of
>>>> the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries (though I have quibbles with how
>>>> many things are stated in "SH"), and I was thinking that since we
>>>> decided to incorporate things from the Best Practices into the
>>>> Guidelines, it seems like a good way to start would be to get SH into a
>>>> good enough form for inclusion in the Guidelines.  I'm willing to take
>>>> the lead on that and ask for feedback on my revised draft from the SIG
>>>> on Libraries.
>>>>
>>>> Objections?  Does anyone have notes on previous objections to the text,
>>>> things that were meant to be incorporated, etc.?
>>>>
>>>> --Kevin
>>>>