TEI Technical Council Meeting,

Present: James Cummings (JC - Chair), Syd Bauman (SB), Hugh Cayless (HC), Elli Mylonas (EM (13:12Z)), Sebastian Rahtz (SR), Martin Holmes (MH), Paul Schaffner (PFS), Peter Stadler (PWS), Lou Burnard (LB), Fabio Ciotti (FC).

Apologies: Stefanie Gehrke (SG)

Started 13:06Z. Ended 14:20Z.

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Actions Arising

Action: SR to post to Council a reminder of where to find it on GitHub. Duly done: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-SimpleAction: PWS to continue to act as liaison to Correspondence SIG, reporting back on correspDesc work. Action: HC to continue to organise November Face2Face meeting Action: LB to set up Pure ODD mailing list Action: ALL COUNCIL -- look at Critical Apparatus Revision draft and send comments to HC. Action: JC to remind board about translation/internationalisation efforts and our questions concerning them. Action: EM to act as liaison for Greek translation work and report back to Council.

TEI Conference, Members Meeting, and Elections (JC)

• JC requests Council members send him tidbits to announce during Council Chair report

• If anyone has ideas that we should query the membership about by querying the audience, please let JC know.

• Elections. The ballots have gone out to individual members and institutional reps. Get out the vote.

TEI Simple (SR)

• Process started last month, will continue until next summer. Work so far has concentrated on defining the customization. Expect no surprises in the content model: by design, it will be based heavily on existing usage of large TEI-based corpora (EEBO TCP, DTA etc), and will not be counted a success unless those corpora can be validated against it without significant loss.

• Expecting presentation of processing model in a TEI SImple report at TEI MM Conference in Evanston. SR and JC gave some first ideas. Imagine markup like:

Action: SR to post to Council a reminder of where to find it on GitHub. Duly done: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI-Simple

Update on correspDesc (PWS)

• Limited progress: task force has had conference call
• Several outstanding issues.
• PWS has made new ODD, available on GitHub at: https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/correspDesc
• Hoping to have another conference call w/ some TEI Council members soon
• Action: PWS should send JC a few paragraphs of summary of work to date.
• SIG will be the first SIG to have a Tweet chat 2014-10-10 14:00Z. Hash tag? #TEIChat #AskTEI Action: PWS to continue to act as liaison to Correspondence SIG, reporting back on correspDesc work.

November Face to Face (HC)

• Meeting is Mon 11-17 to Wed 11-19, inclusive; departure after lunch on Wed is acceptable, although we have the room all day.
• HC asks that we all finalize our entries on nights-accommodation-needed Doodle poll by Fri 2014-10-10. It is at [URL Removed]
• consensus is we’d prefer to eat lunch out, at least 2 of the 3, especially if we can bring back remnants to nibble. Action: HC to continue to organise November Face2Face meeting

Outstanding issues in Pure ODD (LB)

• LB summarise issues posted to council list about pure odd and @allowText, etc.
• Consensus was that we had indeed agree to zap @allowText and simply support a new element <mixedContent>. SR pointed out that this would mean changing c. 122 XSL templates in the ODD processing code, but was unfairly laughed at. SB expressed mild sympathy for SR.
• Discussion of datatypes. Suggested that we leave this alone for now; SR said we should limit use of <rng:data> to <macroRef>, rather than allowing it directly in eg <datatype>. Investigation needed of the implications of this.
• Discussion of varying content models by xpath constraints, to allow (eg) different versions of <p> in <text> and <teiHeader>. Much thought and experimentation needed here. LB said he would set up a special mailling list to discuss this area, and get people in and out of Council to join in and define a notation
• SB noted that we need a mechanism for indicating experimental functionality Action: LB to set up Pure ODD mailing list

AOB

• Process of changing SIG (Co-)Convener

  • Nothing to do with Council — need to inform the TEI SIG Coordinator which is the Council Chair, so currently JC

• Progress on Critical Apparatus revision (HC)

  • request for those interested to take a look at https://docs.google.com/document/d/10R5FfpvCh9v2c2zeG1hgYMcyuT8o-PfHiaWYVrLf56k/edit?usp=sharing -- a second draft, following on from the initial one, which engaged a lot of people. Lots of good discussion happening.

  Action: ALL COUNCIL -- look at Critical Apparatus Revision draft and send comments to HC.

• Greek Guidelines translation (EM)

  • JC to remind board of our questions about translation/internationalisation

  • have made HTML doc sent to me into google spreadsheet and shared with Anna Maria Sihani who had volunteered to work on this. Can remain as her contact.

  • More documentation needed on how to do the translation

  • Discussion on opening up the translation spreadsheets more widely; Perhaps should be done as particular projects

  Action: JC to remind board about translation/internationalisation efforts and our questions concerning them.

Action: EM to act as liaison for Greek translation work and report back to Council.

JC thanked members of Council for participating and reminded them to get on with their tickets and actions.