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

[David Sewell]

Great, thanks.

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Martin Holmes wrote:

> 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!
>>
>>
>
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