[tei-council] Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO) (fwd)

[Martin Holmes]

I'll volunteer to correspond a little bit and clarify exactly what 
they're trying to do. A quick look through their proposals (such as this 
one: <http://fhiso.org/files/cfp/cfps14.pdf>) suggests they're 
reinventing a lot of our wheels.

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-04-25 06:19 AM, David Sewell wrote:
> Council,
>
> Can someone from Council respond to this request for input? As it
> involves data standards I think it is Council rather than Board business
> so long as it does not involve a major commitment of TEI-C resources,
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:52:52 +0100
> From: Tony Proctor <acproctor at fhiso.org>
> To: info at tei-c.org
> Cc: Tony Proctor <tony at proctor.net>
> Subject: Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO)
>
> As a representative of FHISO, I contacted TEI earlier this year with a
> view to getting a dialogue going between our two organisations. I didn't
> receive any response but I'd like to explain our position a little more
> clearly if that's OK.
>
> FHISO is a non-profit organisation dealing with data standards for
> genealogy and family history. Part of this involves mark-up for entities
> (e.g. Persons, Places, etc) referenced in narrative text, and for the
> representation of transcription anomalies (e.g. uncertain characters,
> struck-out text, marginalia, interlinear & intralinear notes).
>
> We've been looking at TEI's comprehensive set of features but cannot see
> how it can be incorporated into textual contributions within a
> structured genealogical schema.
>
> FHISO currently has an open call-for-papers at
> http://fhiso.org/call-for-papers/ which is designed to solicit technical
> proposals and functional requirements for specific data standards. A
> number have already been uploaded at
> http://fhiso.org/call-for-papers-submissions/ with more waiting to
> appear. TEI is welcome to submit proposals here themselves, or comment
> on existing proposals, but I would also like to establish a conversation
> with a TEI representative too. I feel that both of our organisations
> could benefit from a sharing of ideas and goals.
>
> Could you put me in touch with an appropriate TEI representative?
>
> Tony Proctor
> Organising Member
>
> Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO)
> Web: http://fhiso.org
> Tel: +44 115 714 0766
> f h i s o ´
> One community, one standard!
>
>

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)