[tei-council] divliminality

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 17 Oct 2013, at 18:18, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Well, I am not sure that I understand your suggestion for an alternative here. If you know what the "alternative models" are, you are free to propose them, obviously, and I hope you will.

I did, you did, Paul did, we all did, in Ann Arbor. 

> My recollection is that after several hours debate the Council was unable to agree on which model should be recommended, whence the suggestion to consult the community. As to "kicking into the long grass" I think this idea is pretty well buried in long grass already so we can't make things much worse by seeking for guidance from the community.

What I care about is being able to use EEBO TCP in TEI P5 before the end of 2014. This is a blocker.

> 
> Do we have a seriously better plan?


Yes.  follow what EEBO TCP have done, and adjust Gidlines to suit. Argue at leisure about what it all _means_, joining
the other N% of the TEI which is not precisely defined….

don't get me wrong, I do agree that its a jolly interesting subject, how to encode bits and pieces
at the top and the bottom  (the ladder of law has no top and no bottom, however), but is it worth spending
2 years watching the angels dance on their pins? 
--
Sebastian Rahtz      
Director (Research) of Academic IT
University of Oxford IT Services
13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431