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

[Kevin Hawkins]

This text is good, though I would insert "Technical" before "Council" to 
avoid confusion with the TEI's Board (of Directors), and I would also 
note that all Technical Council members are listed in the Preface and 
Acknowledgements ( 
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/FM1.html ).

What Lou wrote is explained at less detail at 
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/TitlePageRecto.html 
, which was recently added to the HTML version of the Guidelines and 
linked from http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ (see 
https://sourceforge.net/p/tei/bugs/426/ ).  Perhaps it needs to be made 
more obvious here, or mentioned at http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/ 
as well.

--Kevin

On 1/1/14 7:53 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>