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

[Kevin Hawkins]

This is now on our meeting agenda for Providence.

On 3/17/13 5:51 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Or you could just rename "Specs-Unused "to  "nowDefunct" and keep all
> the old superceded garbage in there.
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> 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
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>> 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
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>>> 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"
>>>
>>>
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>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> 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
>>>>>
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