[tei-council] Council Teleconference Monday 21 October 4pm Oxford time.

[Lou Burnard]

Following Sebastian's example, here's my brief report on the state of 
things divliminal:

Ages ago, Paul kindly provided a sample of about 100 tops bottoms 
middles and musical gobbets, in both GIF and TXT forms. Last time we 
discussed this, we felt that it would be easy enough to get this 
consultation underway without recourse to fancy software and indeed I 
have since then wrangled the material into a bunch of skeletal TEI 
documents ready to be linked to from a webpage as per the announcement 
letter I sent earlier to the list. James volunteered to help deal with 
the resulting flood of suggested encodings.

My recollection  is that we decided on attempting this consultation 
because we couldn't decide how far to go in clarifying/changing the 
semantics of the various divliminal elements without better 
understanding of how the user community perceives them, on which we had 
little evidence, other than, of course, the experience of EEBO-TCP. 
Since then, it's been argued that we should just deal with the 
(comparatively small) number of aberrant uses Sebastian has identified 
in EEBO (and for each of which he has now submitted a ticket together 
with clear evidence of the use-cases concerned) and put the consultation 
exercise back on the back burner where it belongs.

My mind is so open on this issue it's quite draughty.