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TEI council report. Business as usual or le calme avant la tempête … Laurent Romary, INRIA Gemo & Humbodt Univ. IDSL. The 2009 council activities in short. A stable and ripe organization Source forge with inputs from the TEI community See: http://tei.sourceforge.net/ Editorial support
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TEI council report Business as usual or le calme avant la tempête… Laurent Romary, INRIA Gemo & Humbodt Univ. IDSL
The 2009 council activities in short • A stable and ripe organization • Source forge with inputs from the TEI community • See: http://tei.sourceforge.net/ • Editorial support • Annual F2F and trimester Audios • Intensive debates on TEI council list when needed • Colored tempo (green, amber, red)
Complementary activities • Implication in SIG activities • Help in creation (Scholarly publishing) • Articulation with council work (TEI in libraries) • SIG grant proposal • Participation in TEI projects • TEI Tite RFP • Re-organizing the website for better access to technical information • On-going work… • Evangelization • Many council members act as disseminators (tutorials, workshops, invited talks, etc.) • The council has a political role (e.g. Research infrastructures) • E.g. Clarin/Dariah standardization roadmap
Technical work • Filling the gaps (<pc>, <surplus>, etc.) • Constant cleaning-up of guidelines (better content models, better set of classes, better definitions) • Examples! • Accompany new initiatives • Manuscript transcription • An underlying duty • Preserving the technical coherence (avoid hacks) • Anticipating on necessary evolutions (e.g. ODD)
Issues • Turnover? • We lose competent people • The council as a training environment… • Tools? • Maintenance of Roma, Vesta, stylesheets • Identifying other needs (TEI repository? – cf. Dariah) • Budget! • Convergence • Cf. ISO committee TC 37/SC 4 • Working more coherently to avoid divergence (ODD specs, basic mechanisms, shared modules, shared communication?, joint technical work?) • Providing support for communities to use the TEI framework (preventing the NLM syndrom) • E.g. EpiDoc case: helping the move to P5 • Close collaboration with council to resolve outstanding issues
Issues – cont. • Customizations • TEI is a stable infrastructure • More emphasis on community specific customizations • TEI Tite • Scholarly publishing • Speech transcription • ODD • ESF grant application • We need a vision, a master plan… and resources • Getting started • Higher up on the priority list • More support through projects • Cf. Tite RFP, ISO-TEI • Involve TEI in grant applications
Personal view • I don’t understand a word in many discussions ;-) — the council works well because you have true specialists there • The TEI is really taking momentum and fame — also in managerial spheres • We need to find ways to fulfill expectations from outside — budget, communication, collaboration…