TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2018-05-31

Meeting time:

Present:

TEI conference Tokyo: F2F dates

RV has not done much lately, but expecting a push soon.
HC has RNG validation working with Oxarage, but not Schematron yet.
- Possibly introducing endpoint for sending data in the POST body (now expects form data).

DH Mexico City

Standoff task force meeting

Proposal to the Board to fund a task force to meet 2 or 3 days (linguistics SIG and 3 interested from Council).
Action on MS: send a reminder to the subgroup
Action on Subgroup: MT, SB, HC:
- From Cologne minutes: subgroup will work on this; study the proposal closely, work on a counterproposal, have a phone call, and then respond to Laurent Romary with a phone call.”
- Concerns: This should be a workshop (to give the LingSIG a chance to be involved).
- Standoff task force isn’t only for Linguists.
- EM: A 2-day workshop is exclusionary—the only people who get a voice are the ones who can go to the meeting. Instead—a series of hangouts/phone calls that have potentially wider reach.
- PS: A bootcamp? RV: Genetic Editing group is a good example—workshop-driven and successful.
- HC: Have the subgroup meet online, with PS—have a preliminary discussion.
- Council: The subgroup should meet (see action item above).

HC, RV, EB will be there.
JC & EM interested in helping, but won’t be there.
Suggestion: look at EB & RV’s talk from Vienna. EB will be there and willing to help.

How much space is required?
JC notes that without much pruning there is 6–9 GB of stuff at least. With some pruning this can be lowered. (Also SVN history could probably be removed.) Ian Rifkin confirms there is a couple hundred gigabytes available on the server and sees no problem in adding this amount to the Vault (if not a regular occurrence). JC will trim out some higher-sized and some obviously useless files and go ahead if there are not strong objections. Council agrees to this plan of action.

EM: OCR’d texts—commercially (ALTO format, OmniPage or others that offer coordinates for letters)—converting these to TEI (facsimile).
SB is looking for volunteers who have (relatively) easy access to OCR software that generates either ALTO, hOCR, or PAGE format (even though he doesn’t know what that last one is) so he can generate examples and XSLT to convert to BPTL-L1.
Plan is to announce it in Tokyo

(email from Kevin Hawkins)
Stefanie Gehrke and KH need to step down from their roles as convener.
No new candidate to take it over.
KH suggests to retire the SIG for the moment.
Related question 1: represent active and inactive SIGs separately on TEI website?
Related question 2: <sourceDesc> proposal https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEI-L;93f8cf13.1805
Proclaim this SIG “dormant” on the website, but keep the teilib-l@list.indiana.edu e-mail list.
- Let Michelle Dalmau know that the SIG is now going to be “dormant”.
- EM talks to Kevin about a) contacting Michelle, b) crafting a response to Martin Mueller.

JC notes that if we could finish ticket number 1707 (https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1707) before next release that would be good. (Especially since meeting will be in Japan, but also because it arose from a poster at previous conference). This was on EM, she will act on it.

Re-schedule next conference call, as it occurs during DH. Suggestion: Thu 05 Jul. Action on MS: generate a Doodle poll (due this afternoon).