SIG meeting Lyon

SIG Meeting TEI@Lyon 2015 October 29, 2015

- participants: Peter Stadler Sabine Seifert Anne Baillot Stefan Dumont Patrizia Rebulla Anna-Maria Sichani, Dixit Fellow The Hague Michel de Gruijter, National Library of the Netherlands Angelika Kreh, DLA Marbach Mariana Gomes (Marcel in spirit)

- short introduction of all participants

- report on last year’s activities: successful year - development of , workshop at TEI@Lyon 2015, article for jTEI, correspSearch,  in TEI standard, CMIF still under development - SIG for computer-mediated communication: they work on the same problems as we do concerning the meta data and the structure of the communication - Peter: we should join forces with them, element for a tweet or a posting what would be a letter for us, they want to file a feature request for that - they took our  and made an attribute out of it - Stefan: just wrote a blog post on CMIF - Anne: meeting of CostAction and Mapping the Republic of Letters, we should talk to Pip Willcox to make correspDesc and correspSearch known - Stefan: in contact with these people - Anne: perhaps we should write a little standard text to send around to make our work known

- Mariana: Does correspSearch accept meta data in other languages? Stefan: with authority files etc. no problem - Peter: information on language of letter in CMIF might be helpful - Patrizia: case of translations of one letter into different languages - Stefan: introducing this feature in correspSearch might be a good idea

- Patrizia asks for a structure that could be copied, for a best-practice model - Peter: this is our next step to develop a best-practice model, already some example online on GitHub and in TEI Guidelines - Maria: We could prepare some stylesheets - Anne: a collection of examples perhaps better because less normative

- Mariana: problems with envelopes, where to encode the occurrence of an envelope - Peter: address can be part of header and also body (normalized data vs. transcription of address) - occurrence of envelope should go into physDesc → example - How does DALF P5 do that?

- Mariana: encoding of type of correspondence and attachments, non-textual assets found in the envelope - counter-argument was: type of correspondence belongs to profileDesc - SIG could come up with a taxonomy/thesaurus as a suggestion - perhaps libraries, archives, post museums already have taxonomies - Patrizia: in Paris is a museum of letters and correspondence, with another branch in Brussels - Stefan: ask mailing list

- Peter: possible to create stylesheets to convert regular correspDesc to CMIF - Stefan: use cases for that needed - stylesheets for extracting all correspDescs from a corpus

- Mariana: Do older versions of Oxygen work with correspDesc? - Peter: these files don’t validate, one could update the TEI Add on

Future plans - examples - documentation - taxonomy/thesaurus as a suggestion - best-practice model - stylesheets for extracting all correspDescs from a corpus - long-term goal: textual features