TEI Stand-Off Markup WG 2002-09-05 Conference Call Notes
Initials Used for People
- SB Syd Bauman
- LB Lou Burnard
- JC Jean Carletta
- CC Chris Catton
- HC Hamish Cunningham
- DD David G. Durand
- JH Jessica Hekman
- NI Nancy M. Ide
- AI Amy Isard
- CL Christophe Laprun
- LR Lloyd Rutledge
- FV Fabio Vitali
Commenced ~12:08 UTC w/ SB, JC, CC, DD, JH, NI, CL.
Contents
Issue list
[exchange I missed]
NI asks about directed graphs. Notes much of issue list is being covered by ISO group.
DD may add using TEI to mark up [author?] hypertext to list — it's an important issue, but one that mostly falls out once the other stuff is in place.
time-based media
CC to send info on time- and space- based issues to list when he gets time, but v. busy right now.
DD on multiple coordinate spaces. Reminds of features of HyTime coordinate spaces. Q: how widely applied? it's all well and good to say we're going to describe these things, but how often do people actually do that work?
DD do we want to do this sort of thing? CC describes a groups that would like this sort of stuff. Big database searches, for instance, where search on what's depicted may be important. Similarly, format conversions may be necessary, then the coordinate spaces change in complex ways.
DD tinks of TEI as dealing with canonical version of text, and not dealing with editorial process. So you wouldn't worry about supporting dynamic editing & updating of video clips, but rather just annotation of a fixed version in a fixed format.
CC generally agrees.
JC asks if you have one base document that consists of multiple video signals.
SB & DD hold that TEI document is an XML-encoded text which may well need to point to multiple video signals. And we need to address multimodal data (e.g. multiple recordings/formats of the same event) at least a bit because linguistics and drama, if nothing else, need them.
CC brings up xmp of video with 2 soundtracks in 2 languages.
DD thinks it reasonable that documents point in a manner that would need to be updated if timebase of video itself changed.
JC points out that recording of time indices, etc., cannot be magic numbers, but need to be units of something explicit such that they can be converted to whatever the processing software wants.
deliverables
DD: issue of deliverables is really a call for everyone to think about it and write suggestions.
Next week DD may have trouble making call. SB suggests JH as chair, who agrees.
regexps revisisted
DD would like to corral some help on regexps; believes there is some work going on in XQuery, thus wants volunteer to investigate XQuery, particularly regexps. He will try to coral FV. JH is a possibility of FV cannot. Next phone meeting if we don't have something yet pick a victim.
NI: will be sending pointers to lots of ISO working stuff (some in MS PowerPoint), with caveat that this is work in progress.
Appendix A:
Wrapped up at ~12:37 UTC, DD hoping issues & deliverables list will be more concrete by 2 weeks.