TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2018-04-26

Meeting time:

• 08:00 EDT, 13:00 BST, 14:00 CEST
• Started @ ~12:03Z, ended @ ~13:29Z.

Present:

• Syd Bauman (SB)
• Elisa Beshero-Bondar (EB)
• Hugh Cayless (HC)
• James Cummings (JC)
• Martina Scholger (MS)
• Peter Stadler (PS)
• Sarah Stanley (SS)
• Raff Vigilanti (RV) @ 12:15Z

Apologies:

• Alex Bia (AB)
• Elli Mylonas (EM)
• Magdalena Turska (MT)

TEI conference Tokyo (Sun 09 – Thu 13 Sep 18)

• Council meeting: Fri 7th – Sat 8th
• Workshops: Sun 9th
• Council Open Session: Mon 10th, morning
• Board meeting Thu 13th, morning

Call for nominations

• Council, Board, TAPAS, Rahtz Prize

Deprecation policy & release scheduling

• see email from SB, 2018-04-22

Minutes from previous face-to-face meetings

• Victoria
• Cologne

Next release

• Schedule
  • After ADHO Mexico City?
  • Spanish language hackathon at DH2018? Action on MS by 2018-05-03: Contact Gimena del Rio Riande and Antonio Rojas Castro; also ask if Alejandro Bia is going to Mexico.
    • How much time is needed to implement translations? More than a night?
    • Use a translation tool, speed up the work with a basic translation in place.
• Release technicians: RV and PS (With help from MS and everyone else), July 23–24.

LingSig conference call

• PS: Brief report on LingSIG conference call with Susanne Haaf and Piotr Banski.
  • Most LingSIG tickets are doable, except Standoff. My idea (PS) would be to try to get some money for a workshop and bring together interested parts of Council and other interested LingSIG parties.
    • Should we organize a LingSIG meeting in Tokyo? But there are many issues on the table, one day will not be enough.
    • Approach TEI Board for funding?
      • Who needs to be involved? Laurent Romary, Piotr Banski, Susanne Haaf, and at least 3 Council members.
      • Prepare a proposal to the Board to fund a task force to meet 2 or 3 days (linguistics SIG and 3 interested from Council).
      • Next Board meeting = May 10.

TEI-Website (wordpress) account

• Do we want to have a shared Council account or separate individual accounts?
• Maybe an individual account for the Chair (for regular posting of minutes).
• Decision: MS and HC to have wordpress accounts to update site. Other Council members will ask Luis Meneses for an account if required.

Oxford TEI Website -> Vault [JC]

• Talking about http://tei.it.ox.ac.uk/.
• Need to archive these deep historical resources (“information archaeology”) on the TEI (teaching materials/talks/experimental ideas/correspondence/legacy TEI development materials)
  • Selection principle on what to archive?
  • Much easier to just copy it all.
  • Should/would TEI archive such things?
  • How would TEI decide whether to archive?
    • This is about making the TEI (not a specific project).
    • Is our vault well curated enough for this?
    • Vault needs some serious attention
      • used to be in a Subversion repo at the University of Virginia (run by David Sewell), but that is no longer linked up.
    • At least needs a snapshot before migrating to new website.
• Is is okay for JC to copy resources into the Vault? Objections: Vault requires house-cleaning, we’re just deferring a lot of work. Shouldn’t this stuff go into a GitHub repo? Which means it won’t get done.
• We should make some kind of announcement/call for “Curatorial Work” on Vault materials.
• Action on JC: Needs to estimate how much space is required–if there’s room, just copy it. HC: there’s probably enough disk space.

Blue sky thinking

Tickets

• 1756 event should have ptr and idno in its content model
  • Most people seem to be in favour. Should JC just go implement?
  • JC: I think yes.
• 327 an <object> element
  • On JC’s todo list to produce initial straw man.

Ticket triage

April 2018	SS
May 2018	MS
June 2018	HC
July 2018	EB
August 2018	JC
September 2018	EM
October 2018	MT
November 2018	SS
December 2018	AB