[tei-council] suggest you restore visible authorship info for A Gentle Introduction to XML" (fwd)

[Lou Burnard]

As this topic comes up quite frequently, maybe we should consider adding 
a robust statement along the following lines somewhere in the front matter

"Authorship of the Guidelines

The text of these Guidelines is maintained and regularly updated by the 
TEI Technical Council in response to suggestions and criticisms received 
from the TEI community. Large parts of the text were originally provided 
by other contributors, individually or more usually as members of 
specific working groups, and then revised for publication in earlier 
versions of the work by the original TEI editors CM Sperberg-McQueen and 
Lou Burnard. Since the production of P5 in 2012 however, it is the 
Council which retains intellectual responsibility for all textual  
content, and is thus the only author that should be cited for the 
Guidelines. The Council acknowledges with pleasure the contributions 
made to the development of the Guidelines by all those individuals 
listed in Appendix G."

I really don't want to go through the text saying who was responsible 
for authoring which bit (and you probably don't want me to anyway)

L



On 02/01/14 00:21, David Sewell wrote:
> Can Council consider this suggestion from Alan Liu? I will let him 
> know I have forwarded it to you.
>
> David
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:28:46 -0800
> From: Alan Liu <ayliu at english.ucsb.edu>
> To: web at tei-c.org
> Subject: suggest you restore visible authorship info for A Gentle 
> Introduction
>     to XML"
>
>
> Dear TEI:
>
> I've often cited Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard's 
> influential "A Gentle Introduction to XML"
> over the years.  But I see that currently at its location
> (http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/SG.html) there 
> seems to be no visible author
> information.  Nor can I find visible credit for authorship of that 
> document anywhere on the current
> TEI / P5 guidelines site.
>
> Can you restore the authorship info on the page?  That would be 
> helpful when there is a need to cite
> the work, discuss it with others, etc.
>
> --Thanks, Alan Liu
>
>