TEI-C Board Meeting 2020-07-16

via zoom

Attending

  • Kathryn Tomasek (KT)
  • Gimena del Rio Riande (GRR)
  • Christiane Fritze (CF)
  • Hugh Cayless (HC)
  • Luis Meneses (LM)
  • Martina Scholger (MS)
  • Pip Willcox (PW)

Apologies

  • James Cummings (JC)

Action items from last meetings

  • see Asana

Agenda

  • Meeting Procedures and Other Announcements
  • Internationalisation
    • FORCE 11 partnership
    • GROBID (GRR)
  • ISO subcommittee TC 37/SC 3 invitation subcommittee (via Detlef Reineke on behalf of Laurent Romary)

Minutes

  • Meeting Procedures and Other Announcements
  • Internationalisation
    • FORCE 11 partnership
      • Conference will be online this year.
      • GRR will be teaching and discussing ideas that connection to work of internationalization group: standards, internationalization, languages
      • a good place to highlight internationalization group’s work
    • Meeting with JTEI editors 2020-07 (KT and GRR)
      • GRR suggested applying to DOAJ
        • jTEI editors agree with this
      • GROBID (GRR)
        • it would great to find someone to get in touch with them to discuss TEI as markup for journals
        • ask Laurent about this when he joins us in August
        • Standard called JATS is current
    • Update from Hugh and Martina re: Mellon and internationalization?
      • Moving ahead with a planning grant draft to be handed in September 1, 2020
    • Update from internationalization working group
      • HC has made a pretty good progress with the specification page translations
      • HC has made no progress yet on the website relaunch project
      • The prototype is really cool for the translation
      • Raff Viglianti is working on a glossary with “Air table”, starting with a bottom up approach
      • He plans to present this with a poster at the ADHO conference
      • JC: Asks (from another zoom meeting) whether any lessons to learn from recent TEI Publisher sprint for translations that Magdalena Turska ran?
      • HC says this is a different level of internationalization (i18n); MS says this will become more relevant at a later stage.
      • JC: Fair enough, thanks.
    • GRR and Raff Viglianti will be teaching an online course in Argentina in September
      • The course focuses on minimal editions
      • They will use CETEIcean. HC has written a tutorial (English, Spanish) that he is working into a state that will make it easily translatable
    • Website:
      • MS/CF: How can we support/help you to put things forward?
      • HC: it’s a serious amount of work and requires time to be built into the project application
      • HC proposes switching his tasks of website relaunch and translation tool within the project.
    • ISO subcommittee TC 37/SC 3 invitation (via Detlef Reineke on behalf of Laurent Romary)
      • Laurent will join us in August
  • Communications Manager
    • Nobody has applied for this position.
    • GRR has been tweeting on Fridays, alongside OpenGLAM
    • GRR offers to continue: warmly welcomed
    • new deadline: end of September 2020
    • start date is negotiable, suggested start of November 2 2020
    • make the term negotiable, suggested minimum term: 12 month
    • Send a reminder to the list at the start of September
    • GRR tweets, CF posts DHD DHA list
  • Update from Kathryn on behalf of the nominations and elections committee
    • We had a total of 35 nominations:
      • 7 for 3 open positions on the Board, no duplicates
      • 27 for 5 positions on the Council, with 20 multiple nominations, for a total of 14 nominees
      • 1 for TAPAS Advisory Board
        • the person who has been nominated has agreed to stand for
    • start the slate beginning of September
  • AoB
    • none

Date of next Meetings

Every month on the Third Thursday

  • Aug 20, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
  • Sep 17, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
  • Oct 15, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
  • Nov 19, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
  • Dec 17, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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  • Jan 21, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)