TEI-C Board Meeting 2020-08-20

via zoom

Attending

  • Kathryn Tomasek (KT)
  • Gimena del Rio Riande (GRR)
  • James Cummings (JC)
  • Hugh Cayless (HC)
  • Luis Meneses (LM)
  • Martina Scholger (MS)
  • Pip Willcox (PW)

Apologies

  • Christiane Fritze (CF)

Action items from last meetings

  • see Asana

Agenda

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

Minutes

  • Meeting Procedures and Other Announcements
  • Internationalisation
    • ISO subcommittee TC 37/SC 3 invitation (via Detlef Reineke on behalf of Laurent Romary)
      • Laurent Romary (LR) joins us to give us some general background information
        • TC 37: committee dedicated to language and terminology (chair: LR)
        • e.g.: ISO 639 series is maintained in ISO/TC 37/SC 2
        • ISO/TC 37/SC 4 and TEI have an agreement concerning joint publications (cf. feature structures: ISO 24610:2006)
        • ISO standards that include significant amount of TEI, we are allowed to reproduce the relevant content standard in the Guidelines
        • ISO/TC 37/SC 3 about terminology resources (chair: Detlef Reineke)
        • ISO standard 30042 (TBX) is a kind of descendant from the old TEI terminology chapter
        • ISO/TC 37/SC 5 deals with translation and interpretation
      • Discussion:
        • JC: What should we be doing? How much work?
          • LR: Name liaisons and maintain communication; Not necessarily burdensome.
        • MS: Are there regular meetings?
          • LR: Annually, but Covid-19; June 2021 Brussels
        • HC: What is time commitment? Expense?
          • LR: limited time commitment unless something specific happens related to TEI
          • No cost for liaison; most meetings are virtual; next planned ISO TC 37 general meeting in Brussels in June 2021
          • HC: Would need to have a framework for sending liaisons to meetings.
      • Suggestion for next steps:
        • Follow up with ISO/TC 37/SC 3
          • LR will follow up with Detlef Reineke and find out about next steps
          • MS will put this on the agenda for the next Council meeting; asks whether LR is available.
        • Reconnect with ISO/TC 37/SC
          • Action: JC to help KT with message to Lou Burnard; ask whether he still receives missives from SC4, how frequently, might he be willing to suggest someone to take on this role
        • Follow along and plan strategy going forward
        • Do not hesitate to ask Laurent about anything that arises with regard to ISO
    • Since Laurent is familiar with GROBID, GRR has an opportunity to ask for information
      • GROBID uses TEI
      • cascade of CRF models
      • on GitHub, open source
      • extracts everything it can from full papers (began with extracting metadata)
      • effective for legacy pdf documents
      • GRR thinks it’s a good idea for JTEI
      • LR is happy to come back and talk to us more when we have specific questions.
  • Communications Manager
    • KT has not had time to work on this. Will do so this following week.
  • Update from Kathryn on behalf of 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;
      • and 1 for TAPAS Advisory Board
        • the person who has been nominated has agreed to stand for
    • Of the seven nominations for three open positions on the Board, one has accepted, four have refused, and two have yet to respond. I'm concerned about the slate, for obvious reasons.
    • Of the fourteen people nominated for five positions on the Council, nine have agreed to stand, and five have refused. I think we have a robust slate for Council.
    • The nominated person has agreed to stand for TAPAS Advisory.
    • Start the slate beginning of September
    • Discussion:
      • PW: Strategies for succession planning. There is a trend over several years towards fewer people standing for election, particularly for the Board. This year’s experience is part of the trend, not solely a feature of the current pandemic. Provocation: has TEI-C run its course? (JC: I don’t think this is really the case, given the amount of work the Council continues to do.) That being the case, how can we reverse the trend and encourage more people from more parts of the world to accept nominations to stand?
      • HC: Perhaps the dearth of candidates is a sign of satisfaction with how things are rather than that the organization is moribund.
      • JC: Notes in other years we’ve had far too many nominations. (N.B. Not all nominations turn into candidates.) But also we should seek a diversity of candidates.
  • AoB
      • MS: Reminds us that it’s time to come to a decision about the applicants to the Rahtz Prize.
        • KT: We need to set a date for the Annual Business meeting to be held virtually. And how to manage registration for a passworded Zoom. JC/HC: Which should be openly available registration to the community as a whole.
    • KT Action: to handle over email

Date of next Meetings

Every month on the Third Thursday

  • 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)