TEI Technical Council Mission and Activities

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TEI Technical CouncilMission and Activities
Digital Humanities University of
Oulu Finland June 27, 2008

• Dr Arianna Ciula

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Mission

• Council An assembly called together for any
  purpose a convocation or congregation An
  advisory or deliberative assembly (OED)
• TEI Council
• Responsible for the technical development of the
  TEI guidelines
• recommends, evaluates, and implements new
  features and modifications of existing features,
  and supervises the overall development of each
  new version of the Guidelines
• New bylaws
• collect, propose, evaluate, and implement
  editorial changes to the TEI Guidelines (and its
  derivatives)
• produce up-to-date documentation for the TEI
• propose and assist in the preparation of training
  documents and tutorials evaluate agreements for
  official TEI-C training, services, and
  collaborations and make recommendations to the
  TEI-C Board concerning endorsement of such
  training, services, and collaborations

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Not Secret Council !

• Mailing list archives
• http//lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-co
  uncil/
• Face to face yearly meetings (more frequent
  meetings under discussion) and monthly
  teleconferences (frequency highly dependent on
  workload)
• Reports
• http//www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/
• At the next TEI Members' Meeting report on
  current work
• 6-8 November 2008, Kings College London, London
• http//www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/

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Maintaining the Guidelines

• Bug and feature requests
• Report to TEI L
• when doubtful, controversial or more discussion
  needed
• Submit directly to and see progress in
  SourceForge

http//sourceforge.net/projects/tei/

• Missing components
• New chapters

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TEI Workgroups

• Usually based on needs of the community
• constant monitoring of TEI L
• Often chartered by the council
• to recommend extensions or
• modifications to the TEI Guidelines
• Currently active
• Correspondence ? now become a SIG
• Physical Bibliography Workgroup - Chartered in
  May 2004 chaired by Murray McGillivray
• Completed
• Personography Workgroup - Chaired by Matthew
  Driscoll
• Character Encoding Workgroup - Chaired by
  Christian Wittern
• Metalanguage Workgroup - Chaired by Sebastian
  Rahtz
• Migration Workgroup - Chaired by Chris Ruotolo
• Stand-Off Markup Workgroup - Chaired by David
  Durand
• Manuscript Description Task Force - Chaired by
  Matthew Driscoll

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Lexicon of Greek Personalcombined map and
timeline derived from data
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Other Council Activities

• Strategic collaborations
• Internationalization and Localization of the
  Guidelines
• With ATILF (France) and the National Digital
  Archive (Taiwan)
• Supported by ALLC
• Sharing TEI expertise and Workshops
• With TEI host (Nancy) and INIST - Grant from
  ADONIS
• Working with other standards
• With ISO
• Activity on Feature Structures
• ISO 24610 - published in 2007
• feature system declaration (in progress)
• ISO standards documents in ODD (accompanied by
  transformations to and from Microsoft Word 2007)
• With W3C
• Internationalisation Tag Set
• Recommendation
• (published in 2007)
• TEI Tite
• Individual contributions

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Internationalization and Localization
http//www.tei-c.org/Tools/I18N/

• working architecture for internationalization of
  the TEI source - reference sections of Guidelines
• internationalized stylesheets for delivery of the
  reference section of TEI guidelines
• translations of the TEI reference documentation
  into 6 languages
• completed Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese,
  Spanish
• in progress German
• plus 2 Portuguese, Russian
• further translation efforts to be undertaken on a
  volunteer basis, or to be supported by further
  funding if available

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Italian
Chinese
Japanese
English
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Roma in Chinese
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Advise, Support and Outreaching

• Council A body of men AND WOMEN chosen or
  designated as permanent advisers on matters of
  esp. to advise and assist in ... (OED)
• Council meetings associated with Local Symposia
• Period of reassessment after launch of P5
• embody new strategy statement especially on
  outreaching
• towards this direction
• working online handbook on How to
• focus on examples and stylesheets
• work on website

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Elected Council

• If member or subscriber
• Remember to vote!

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• Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the
  treasury of reason, the registry of conscience
  and the council-chamber of thought.
• Giambattista Basile (1575-1632)