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TEI Council

This document provides an overview of the TEI Council's activities and its members. It includes information on the council's term, members, meetings, organization, guidelines, handling changes, outreach, tools, plans for the future, and helpful pointers.

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TEI Council

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  1. TEI Council Laurent Romary

  2. Overview • A good team and a good atmosphere • Technical work and evangelisation • E.g. http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw12.xml … a trial phase (2 years) Seite

  3. Council members • Term January 2007 to December 2008 • Tone Merete Bruvik (University of Bergen, NO) • Arianna Ciula (King's College London, UK)* • James Cummings (University of Oxford, UK)* • John Walsh (Indiana University, US) • Term January 2008 to December 2009 • Gabriel Bodard, (King's College London, UK) • Peter Boot (Huygens Institute,NL) • Elena Pierazzo (King's College London) • Paul Schaffner (University of Michigan, US) • David Sewell (University of Virginia, US) • Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne, DE) • Non-elected • Laurent Romary (Chair) • Daniel O'Donnell (Board Chair) • Newcomers - as of 7 Nov. 2008 results • Sebastian Rahtz, Dot Porter Seite

  4. Meetings • 2008 • 7 February 2008: conference call • 3 - 4 April 2008: Galway Meeting • Local organisation: Moore Institute (Malte Rehbein) • Symposium on Wed. 2 April • 21 August 2008: conference call • 7 October 2008: conference call • 2009 • Strong wish for two face to face meetings • Call for hosting! Seite

  5. Organisation • No more editors… but • Editorial support group • Oxford (Lou Burnard, Sebastian Rahtz, James Cummings) • Duties • “air traffic controller”: monitoring of bug and feature requests, periodic summaries of significant changes • Handling minor fixes and prepare releases • Maintain tools (XSL stylesheets and Roma) • Connection to SIGs • Susan Schreibman (SIG chair) Seite

  6. Guideline status • Two major official releases per year • TEI P5 1.1.0, Jul 2008 • TEI P5 1.0.1 (Feb 2008) • TEI P5 1.2.0, TEI MM/ the Halloween version • Limited number of copies at the back of the room • Ongoing version on SourceForge • Releases • SourceForge update, compiled packages+schemas, guidelines Seite

  7. Handling changes • All requests handled through the TEI SourceForge tracker (Bugs and features) • Editorial support group duty • Trace bug/features on TEI-L and TEI-C discussion lists • Note: TEI-L as main source for feedback from the community • Prepare cases for council meetings • Break out sessions in Galway • green, amber, red lists in Telcos Seite

  8. Outreach • Improvement of List, Website and Wiki usage and support • Liaison with the TEI board • Update on examples in the guidelines • Connection with SIGs • “Corresponding” council member/Liaison • Tools • Identifying priorities: Roma support • Internationalization • Getting started with the TEI • Ed. Peter Boot • Support to/interaction with TEI based projects: • TEI-ISO collaboration, TEI Tite, ENRICH, TEI by example Seite

  9. Any plans for next year? • Roadmap for 2009 - issues to be put on the table • Expanding and improving the guidelines • Recommendation for editing genetic editions • Physical bibliographies • Critical apparatus chapter • … additional strong requests from the community • Editorial and technical support • Roma as an Online validation service • Stylesheet templates per modules • Providing localized examples • Stable reference to TEI objects • P4 to P5 • <content> and schematron rules • Dropping support for DTDs? • Mapping with other standardization activities Seite

  10. A little demo? • http://rahtz.oucs.ox.ac.uk:8080/TEIISO/ Seite

  11. Pointers • Council web page • http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/ • Council Wiki • http://www.tei-c.org/wiki/index.php/Council • Getting started • http://www.tei-c.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started • SourceForge • http://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/ Seite

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