[tei-council] Fwd: Graph File Formats

[Kevin Hawkins]

Since it wasn't transparent from the message, I verified with Mr. 
Roughan that he sent this to web at tei-c.org because of the TEI's ability 
to represent graph data.  If anyone on Council would like to provide him 
with feedback, I'm sure he'd appreciate it.  If none of you feel 
knowledgeable about using TEI to represent graphs, please feel free to 
pass along to someone else, or, if you'd like, I can post to TEI-L.

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Subject: Graph File Formats
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:54:13 +1030
From: Matthew Roughan <matthew.roughan at adelaide.edu.au>
To: Matthew Roughan <matthew.roughan at adelaide.edu.au>

Hi,

I'm writing this to you because you or your group have been, at some
stage, involved with designing a graph file format.

I've been doing a little examination of these, and found that the area
is a bit of a morass. I hope to write up a little paper with the aim
of at least describing what's out there, and maybe helping with
future efforts.

I have attached a spreadsheet with the formats I have found, and a
draft version of information I have ascertained. However, there are a
large number (over 70 at last count), and I can't hope to be across
the fine detail of all of these. But I would like to make sure that
the information presented is as accurate as possible.

So I am asking members of this community for some feedback. Ideally,
what I would like is three things:

-- Specific feedback on the formats you are responsible for: please
     tell me what I have gotten wrong, and ideally provide references to
     better documentation that I have so far found.

-- General feedback on other formats that you may know about.
     Particularly sources of additional information, or people I should
     contact (you can see my current list of potential contacts in the
     attached spreadsheet). Please also add to the lists if I am missing
     things.

-- General feedback on the criteria/classifications being used here. I
     have attached a document outlining my thought process, and details
     here. I would very much appreciate your views on these. The
     document provides clearer definitions, and assumptions, as well as

The attached spreadsheet and paper should be seen as a work in
progress, and I sincerely apologise for any mistakes.  I realise that
the data so far has gaps (empty fields or ?s), and may have some
details wrong, but I am very keen that this paper not misinform, and
feedback is the only way this can happen.

I know that some of this refers to work that was done a fair time in
the past. Some may be considered obsolete, even by its authors. I
apologise for dragging out the past, but I am still keen to report on
it, so any information you can provide is valuable. I am keen to also
provide a "reference time" for older formats to provide some idea when
the format was used, particularly if it is effectively obsolete now.

I am working on a fairly tight timeline as I don't want this to drag
on indefinitely. So I won't guarantee that I can incorporate feedback
after Dec 1st (but I am very happy to negotiate that if you have
specific requirements).

Best wishes,
Matt Roughan

P.S. You are also welcome to tell me I am wasting my time :)



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