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==TEI Conference and Members' Meeting 2013==

2013 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium

[http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/ The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web]

2-5 October 2013
Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

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* [[Past events]]

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Past events

2013-02-20T02:55:05Z

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* From the calendar of TEI events
** (most recent first)

==TEI Conference and Members' Meeting 2012==

College Station, TX, November 5-10, 2012

website: http://idhmc.tamu.edu/teiconference/

==TEI Members Meeting 21==

King's College London, November 6-8, 2008

website: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/

==TEI training at CESR in Tours==

The BVH (Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes) Project
Initiation to digital heritage encoding
XML/TEI session - October 6-7, 2008 - Initiation 2
Purpose
This two-day session offers a second level initiation to TEI encoding, with a specific application to Early Modern documents (encoded texts and image display). Priority is given to students of master level, but the session is open to other volunteers. Examples will be taken mainly among printed digital heritage documents.

With the participation of Lou Burnard.

Previous training: basic tagging, notions of TEI-P5 (www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/), reading of the TEI-Renaissance Manual (www.bvh.univ-tours.fr)- not yet in English.

Location: CESR, computing room
59, rue Néricault-Destouches
37000 Tours - France

Organisation : Pr Marie-Luce Demonet (responsible), Dr Toshinori Uetani, CESR
Information and registration (maximum 20 persons) +33 2 47 36 77 86 : marie-christine.jossec@univ-tours.fr; Lunch (6, 7 on reservation) : 12 euros (students 6 euros)
Registration fee : students, scholars, employees of the University François-Rabelais, CNRS : free
Non University François-Rabelais: 25 euros/ day.

==Digitale Editionen: Methodische und technische Grundfertigkeiten==

Summer School: Köln, September 1-5, 2008

website: http://www.zfms.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/SummerSchool.php

==Digital Humanities==

Oulu, Finland, June 25-28, 2008

Website: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/

TEI-based panels/papers include:

* TEI Panel, 9.00-10.30 Friday June 27th
* Zanasi, Silvi, Pizziconi, Musolino, Clinical applications of computer-assisted textual applications, a TEI dream? 11.00 Friday June 27th
* Cummings, ENRICHing Manuscript Descriptions with TEI P5, 11.30 Friday June 27th
* Schlitz, The TEI as luminol: forensic philology in a digital age 16.30 Friday June 27th
* Ramsay, Zillig, Text analytics: a TEI format for cross-collection text analysis, 17.00 Friday June 27th
* Cummings, Converting St Paul: A new TEI P5 edition of The Conversion of St Paul using stand-off linking, 10.00 Saturday June 28th
* Eide, Ore, TEI and cultural heritage ontologies, 14.30 Saturday 28th June

==[[EpiDoc]] summer school==

King's College London, July 14-18, 2008

See: http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2008/04/21/epidoc-summer-school-july-14th-18th-2008/

==TEI summer school, OUCS, Oxford==

* XML, TEI, and beyond: July 21st-23rd 2008

This three-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version
of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Recommendations for the encoding
of digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their
application. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or
encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or
management of large amounts of digital text, this course is for you.

* XML processing using XSLT: July 24th-25th 2008

This is a two-day technical course is a practical guide to the use of
XSLT to do more than simply render your XML documents. Aimed at
project research assistants, encoders, and programmers, it provides
in-depth coverage of the principles and practice of the W3C's
extensible Stylesheet language, focussing on its use as a general
purpose text manipulation and processing language.

Interested? Please register as soon as possible, as places are
limited. The two workshops are independent of each other, but we're
pleased to announce a 20% discount is available if you register for
both.

For further information and booking, please visit
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/

== TEI MM 21 ==
* [http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/index.html TEI Members' Meeting: TEI@20 -- 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities]
** See the [[MS SIG Agenda 2008]]

'''See also:'''
* [[Current events]]
* [[Conferences]]


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Council

2009-03-30T08:52:41Z

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== Face to face meeting - Lyon 1-3 April 2009 ==
=== Local organisation - programm of the seminar ===
[https://listes.cru.fr/wiki/tei-res/public/tei_council_2009_a_lyon Meeting in Lyon]
Available abstracts under: [https://listes.cru.fr/wiki/tei-res/prive/reunioncouncilavril09]

=== Draft Agenda ===
[http://www.example.com link Minutes of the October meeting for reference]
* Bug and features - SF
* Focussed technical discussions
** Placement of schematron constraints in ODD - Sebastian Rahtz
** Discussion of "canonical way of referencing TEI element definitions"
(SourceForge item 2411994) and related issue of permanent URLs for TEI
documentation - David Sewell
[http://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2411994&group_id=106328&atid=644065 SF ID: 2411994]
** Reporting on stylesheets (SR, DOD)
*** Evolution towards XSL 2.0
**** main advantages (features) provided by a switch to 2.0
**** consequences on the TEI infrastructure; maintenance of one or two sets of stylesheets?
**** how much of this should be known by the TEI community?

* Getting started (DS)
* Projects
* Perspective workshop on TEI for the next decade
** Dagstuhl
** ESF [http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops.html]
* SIGs
** Scientific bibliographies
* Misc.
** Necessary work on www.tei-c.org (further rationalization of structure,
etc.)
** In particular, status of TEI vault
http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Vault/Vault-GL.html (LB)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tei/ (Chris Powell)

Chris Ruotolo: For now, you can find older versions of the Guidelines at http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Vault/Vault-GL.html, We are in the process of moving these archival files to the current website.

Syd:
They used to be at
http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/GL/P1/ [source only]
http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/GL/P2/ [source only]
http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/GL/P3/index.htm [source in P3X/]

But I don't know where old stuff went when we moved to the new
website. In any case, there are copies of P3 at:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tei/
http://etext.virginia.edu/standards/tei/teip3/

== Council Telco - 21 August 2008 ==
Minutes of the last meeting: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/tcm39.xml
== Issues for next Telco - Oct 2008 ==
* update on SF bugs and features (Oxford)

* report to TEI MM

* naming releases/versions (tei vs. P5)

Peter Boot: tei.full - tei.components

This refers to my (PB's) question on the council list ([http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2008/009971.html http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2008/009971.html]) about identification of releases and the following discussions. The difference between the two packages (tei.full - tei.components ) on SF has been clarified. Sebastian has added version numbers to generated schema’s.

Issues that remain

- do we use the SF news mechanism (a project where the latest news item dates from a year ago doesn't seem very dynamic)

- Roma shows a version number of the software, not of the TEI release that is being used

* update on SIGs + responsabilities

* placement of Schematron rules in ODD
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2008/010033.html

Note to be produced by SR

* update on '"getting started"', see https://USER@tei.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tei/trunk/Documents/GettingStarted (replacing 'USER' with your SourceForge username) and [[Getting Started]]

Looking for candidates:
** 6. Choosing and installing an editor
** 9. Getting this to work on sample of own text
** 11. Where to go from here

== Issues for next F2F ==

* Discussion on ODD and its evolution--[[User:Romary|Romary]] 02:34, 9 September 2008 (EDT)

cf. @usage in elementSpec

ODD modifing an ODD (ODD architecture)

Namespaces

* Evolution of Roma

Proposal (SR): rewriting Roma almost entirely in Javascript, interacting with web services to deliver TEI and to generate outputs. The Javascript would grab a copy of TEI (cut down) from a chosen server, and load it into memory. Then it would use that to help you build your ODD. when you were done, it would send the ODD document to a web service whose job is to return a schema or documentation back to the browsers. So Roma would be a Javascript ODD editor, not needing server support beyond a simple Apache, but closely coupled to a pair of generic web services. The generator web service would be identical code to the Vesta desktop

Additional functionalities needed (PB):

- adding copy element functionality,

- supporting the creation/manipulation of content models (instead of the user having to write the models),

- support/help in creating schematron constraints?

- TEI schema validation service (cf. also ISO project)

* should the TEI-C we produce a general purpose online service which can validate and process documents (cf. ISO work)

== Highlights to be brought to the TEI MM 2008 ==

== Topics (could be moved up to one F2F or Telco meeting ==

* Stable reference to TEI objects

(For original source of these comments, see tei-council thread [http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2008/010041.html Quoting a TEI Object] from September 2008. DS has created a new wiki page for discussing [[Council:stable references|stable references]].)

[LR] In many cases, one has to map schemas and describe the mappings by reference to actual objects in the respective encoding schemes. In this context do (should) we have a mechanism to refer uniquely to TEI objects, beyond the reference to the TEI namespace (<author> in http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0), sort of TEI unique identifiers?

[JC] I'd think the proper way to cite an element, class, or datatype generally is to point to its reference page. http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-tree.html

However, we might want to re-examine that... while the hierarchy should remain the same, deprecated elements (etc.) disappear. I have no way easy way to point to something at a particular date in time...unless maybe I point to it at a particular revision in the SVN source tree?

Pointing to a location in the SVN source tree isn't necessarily very pretty but does work and is accurate:

See for example an earlier version of <event>: http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Specs/event.xml?revision=231&view=markup

As a cognate example, I can point to any revision of a page in the TEI wiki at any point in its history. We should be able to do this, somehow, in the official way we are meant to cite TEI sources as changing objects in time.

However, maybe an easier solution is to cite:
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-event.html
but on the generated reference pages like this contain a link to the appropriate place in the SVN repository? i.e.
http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Specs/event.xml?view=log
which lists all the revisions.

[AC] The only place on the website where I am ware there are some recommendations with URLs is the citation page:
http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/access.xml

This could certainly be enriched with notes on how to point to an element on the line James suggests, but in that case would the version number be enough to point to particular revisions?

[DS] As an alternative to using a TEI-specific convention for citing URLs, we
might want to consider adopting one or another of the standard systems
for permanent identifiers, for example DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

In the case of DOI, there would be some fairly minimal costs involved to
register the DOIs with one of the national registries, but some more
extensive costs in human time to set up a good system for mapping from
our existing nomenclature to a set of DOI identifiers. (Publishers
typically use DOIs to identify individual books or journal articles, but
they can be more granular: every reference page in the Guidelines could
have its own DOI, for example.)

The advantage of doing this would be that anyone accustomed to using
DOIs for citations could simply cite a DOI. So instead of the reference
for <name> in the Guidelines

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-name.html

we would use something like

doi:10.1111/tei-p5-doc:en:ref-name

which would be resolved to the actual Web address by a DOI resolver.
(Many journal DOIs are mostly numeric but the syntax allows more
human-readable names).

If we seriously want to consider an option like this, we should put out
a call to the librarians/metadata gurus in our community for assistance
with implementation.

== Misc. ==
For general information concerning the council see [[TEI-Council-FAQ]] page and [[:Category: Council|category reserved for use by TEI Council]]...

[[Category:Council]]

SIG:Ontologies

2007-12-03T12:05:26Z

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== Introduction ==

In May and June 2004, there was a discussion on the TEI mailing list about [[wikipedia:prosopography|prosopographical]] tags. This lead to a suggestion that detailed information about persons (physical and legal), dates, events, places, objects etc. and their interpretation could be marked up outside the text, and that this could be connected in on-going ontology work being done e.g. in the Museum community, such as the Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM). The result of this was the establishment of a Ontologies SIG at the 4th annual members meeting of TEI in October 2004.

The SIG runs a mailing list on this topic. To join, send a message to tei-ontology-sig-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word SUBSCRIBE in the header or the body of the email.

The SIG is convened by Øyvind Eide, of the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo, and Christian-Emil Ore, of the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo, who is also the chair of The International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC).

== Meeting on October 23 2004 ==

The meeting was held during the 4th annual [[conferences# TEI Members Meeting|members meeting of TEI]] in Baltimore in October 2004.

As a motivation for the conveners' interest in the topic, a short introduction to the CIDOC-CRM was given, together with a description of how the Unit for Digital Documentation use the standard. This was combined with a lively discussion about TEI and ontologies in general, and on the CIDOC-CRM standard in specific.

In 2004 and 2005, the conveners have promised to do the following work:

* Set up a mailing list (2004)
* Create a simple web page (2004)
* Locate people interested in participation
* Communicate with ICOM/CIDOC
* Do TEI-CRM work on some of our data
* Report on our work to the SIG list
* Report progress at the next TEI meeting

In addition, we hope others will report on their work to the mailing list.

It was also agreed that the following tasks should be done by someone, but the responsibility was not appointed to anyone in specific:

* Identify all elements in TEI with ontological relevance
* Define mappings from these elements to CRM and to other ontological systems
* Identify missing elements in both standards
* Find the borders between TEI and ontologies in order to avoid duplication
* Investigate the use of [[METS]] as a way to connect TEI to CRM
* Feedback into TEI P5 based on the aforementioned tasks
* Suggest more complete solutions on the integration/connection issue

== Open meeting on June 15 2005 ==

The TEI Ontologies SIG held an open meeting during the ACH/ALLC
Conference in Victoria, Canada, on June 15, 2005. Six persons were participating.

=== Introduction ===

In the minutes from the lest meeting, two groups of tasks were set up:

1. Tasks the conveners promised to do in 2004 and 2005

2. Tasks we agreed should be done, but with no appointed person responsible

The tasks in group 1 are all on-going or finished, while of the tasks
in group 2, only the identification of elements in TEI with
"ontological relevance" (more on this expression below) is started.

=== Motivation ===

As a motivation for his interest in this work, Øyvind Eide described a
project in which an analysis of relationships between person name
elements in a TEI document was modeled in CIDOC-CRM. This work was
discussed by the group, together with some aspects of the CIDOC-CRM
model.

The group agreed on the general idea that there are things, such as
relationships between persons, that should be modeled outside TEI, but
with a possibility for links to TEI documents.

=== Identification of TEI element ===

This item was presented to the group as "Identifying TEI elements of
special ontological interest". This initiated a discussion, because
the group rejected the wording. Several other phrases were suggested
to replace "special ontological interest", among them "extra-textual
(ontological) interest" and "references to the physical world". None
of these truly covers what we want to express, though.

Nevertheless, there were an common general understanding about what
kind of elements we were talking about: Elements such as names, date
and performances of plays, while elements such as italics, stanza and
paragraphs are outside the scope of this SIG.

Time did not permit any actual investigation into which elements in
TEI are of interest.

The on-going work in the FRBR/CIDOC-CRM Harmonization Group was
discussed. It was argued that the TEI community should be involved in
this work.

2005-08-01 Øyvind Eide

== Meeting on October 28 2005 ==

The meeting was held in Sofia on the morning of October 28, 2005. Six
persons were participating.

With reference to the last meeting in Victoria, there was a discussion
about the scope of the SIG. We have not been able to make any precise
definition, and will have to do with the more practical description of
our scope as "elements such as persons, places, dates and events".

The SIG agreed that the example presented at the first day of the TEI
meeting by Conal Tuohy at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre is a
good example of the type of work interesting for this SIG.

The group discussed whether we should propose a generalized event
element in TEI, similar to the name element. We did not conclude on
this, but it should be further discussed.

We also discussed different ways to connect a TEI document to
ontological information. A TEI document can contain the ontology,
either as reference or included. We will work further on examining
practical implementations of such connections.

=== Plans for 2006 ===

We feel that we should now be able to do practical work to see how the
ideas discussed in the SIG will work in practical implementation. The
conveners will work on this, and will publish results, both on the SIG
list an WIKI, and through other channels.

It was also interest in exploring ways to include Topic Maps in the
TEI header.

The conveners will publish examples of our work on the WIKI, as will
the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. We hope this can lead on to a
best practice document.

The SIG will probably have a meeting at the Digital Humanities
conference in Paris in 2006.

2005-12-09 Øyvind Eide

== Meeting on October 28 2006 ==

11 persons were present at (parts of) the meeting.

=== The last year ===

The activity on the list and the WIKI has been quite limited the last
year, and only the convener have posted anything either place. There
is a visible interest in the topic of the SIG in many areas, though.

The annual conference of The International Committee for Documentation
of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC) was held in
Gothenburg September 10-14. During the meetings of the Documentation
Standards Group, liason with other parties was discussed and the work
in this SIG came up. The group expressed support for the work done by
the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo on the
relationship between CIDOC-CRM and TEI, and hoped the work would
continue. This support includes, of course, to the work being done by
other members of this list and participants at the SIG meetings as
well. The CIDOC do not have an economy which makes it possible with
financial support, but moral support is also good!

=== General discussion ===

The background of the SIG was presented together with a discussion of
the difference between TEI and CIDOC-CRM.

The problem with authority control came up, how the problem relates to
the possible use of FRBM and CIDOC-CRM in connection with TEI was
discussed. There is a need for authority services, and the development
and use of such services is related to the ontology work.

The cut-off point between TEI and conceptual systems/ontologies is an
interesting problem that has to be continously worked on. How much
information should be stored in TEI, how much in other formats with
pointers to the TEI document?

Ontological information systems will often want to point to well
defined access points in TEI.

=== Future work ===

==== CIDOC-CRM ====

The draft for a CIDOC-CRM mapping of some TEI P5 elements being done
by EDD will be published on the mailing list and the WIKI this year.
The possibility for use of the equiv element to express such a mapping
will be examined. Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore is responsible
for this.

We will also work on the construction of parts of a system for
automatic building CIDOC-CRM compatible models based on TEI
documents and the TEI-->CIDOC-CRM mapping in 2007.

==== FRBR ====

Gregory Crane at the [[Perseus Project]] will do some work on the
relationship between FRBR and TEI in 2007 and report to the list and
the WIKI.

==== TEI ====

Instances of persons are just added to TEI at element level, and place
may be on the way (as opposed to names of persons and places). There
are event elements, but only specific (persEvent, event in
transcription of speech). Should a general event element be added as
well?

And maybe a general object element?

There have been some work on different practical methods to relate
ontological information to TEI documents. More experiments are
welcome.

=== Meetings in 2007 ===

The next meeting at the TEI meeting in October 2007. There may also an
interim meeting at the Digital Humanities conference in June 2007 if
potential participants are interested.

2006-11-21 Øyvind Eide

== Meeting on November 3 2007 ==

The meeting was held in College Part, Maryland in the morning of
November 3, 2007, as part of the annual TEI meeting. Six persons were
present.

=== Report from last year's work ===

There have been very little activity on the mailing list, but some relevant
papers have been presented:

* [http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/tekstkoding.html A draft mapping of TEI elements to CIDOC-CRM] was published in January.

* [http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/abstracts/xhtml.xq?id=196 A paper called Expressing Complex Associations in Medieval Historical Documents: The Henry III Fine Rolls Project by Arianna Ciula, Paul Spence, José Miguel Vieira and Gautier Poupeau] was presented at the Digital Humanities conference in June.

* [http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/tekstkoding.html A poster called From TEI to a CIDOC-CRM Conforming Model by Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore] was presented at the Digital Humanities conference in June.

* [http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/program.html#eide_ore A paper called Mapping from TEI to CIDOC-CRM: Will the New TEI Elements Make any Difference? by Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore] was presented at the TEI meeting.

Two interesting projects have been noted:

* [http://www.frh3.org.uk/ The Henry III Fine Rolls Project].

* The Perseus project is combining TEI documents with museum data using CIDOC-CRM and FRBR, as described in the article [http://www.springerlink.com/content/3373t3705h972u28/?p=087a5198fcfb40f5a62fd17dc2fc4d36&pi=0 Named Entity Identification and Cyberinfrastructure by Alison Ba beu, David Bamman, Gregory Crane, Robert Kummer and Gabriel Weaver].

The work on FRBR that was planned last year has not yet been completed.

=== Discussion at the meeting ===

[http://cidoc.mediahost.org/co_reference_wg(en)(E1).xml The new CIDOC Co-reference Working Group] was presented. The
group will work on solutions for co-referencing particulars in various
culture heritage information systems, including TEI documents.

The draft mapping to CIDOC-CRM of selected elements from TEI P5 was
discussed, without any conclusions. It was agreed that further
discussions should take place on the mailing list, though.

A mapping to CIDOC-CRM of one of the examples in chapter 13 was
described and discussed. It was agreed that some guidelines for how to
create TEI documents easy to map to ontologies such as the CIDOC-CRM
would be a nice accomplishment.

The [[Henry III Fine Rolls Project]] and their use of an ontology in
combination with TEI were described and discussed. This approach
really helps the project, but we think it will be even more of an advance where
data from several project may be combined, using the ontology as the
connection layer.

=== Plans for the next year ===

There will be a SIG meeting at the TEI meeting in London in
October/November 2008. There may also be a meeting at the Digital
Humanities conference in Oulu in June 2008 if there is any interest
for it.

There should be some discussion on the mailing list about the issues
raised at this meeting. We also agreed to try to locate funding for
our work.

Progress on the Co-reference work and on the Henry III Fine Rolls
Project will be reported on the mailing list.

There is an interest to work on the mapping of TEI to FRBRoo, and we
hope some results will be presented on the email list. We will also
continue to work on mappings to CIDOC-CRM, especially of TEI examples,
and report on the list as well as elsewhere.

Work should start on the development of guidelines for how to create
TEI documents that easily may be mapped to ontologies such as the
CIDOC-CRM, and results should be reported to the mailing list.

2007-11-26 Øyvind Eide

== Papers ==

Some paper with relevance to the work of this SIG have been presented lately.
The following is a short list, please add more!

[http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/abstracts/xhtml.xq?id=196 Arianna Ciula, Paul Spence, José Miguel Vieira and Gautier Poupeau: Expressing Complex Associations in Medieval Historical Documents: The Henry III Fine Rolls Project]

[http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/teknikk_informatikk/CIDOC2006/EIDE_HOLMEN_Reading_Gray_Literature.pdf Eide, Ø and Holmen, J: Reading Gray Literature as Texts. Semantic Mark-up of Museum Acquisition Catalogues]

[http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/DHs.pdf Eide, Ø and Ore, CE: TEI, CIDOC - CRM and a Possible Interface between the Two. Page 62-65]

[http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/tekstkoding.html Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore: From TEI to a CIDOC-CRM Conforming Model (poster)]

[http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/program.html#eide_ore Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore: Mapping from TEI to CIDOC-CRM: Will the New TEI Elements Make any Difference?]

=== Draft CIDOC-CRM mapping of TEI ===

[http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/tekstkoding.html The draft mapping, together with a presentation of this SIG]. Please comment to oyvind.eide@edd.uio.no.

[[Category:SIG|Ontologies]]

SIG:Ontologies

2007-12-03T12:03:47Z

Aciula: /* Report from last year's work */

== Introduction ==

In May and June 2004, there was a discussion on the TEI mailing list about [[wikipedia:prosopography|prosopographical]] tags. This lead to a suggestion that detailed information about persons (physical and legal), dates, events, places, objects etc. and their interpretation could be marked up outside the text, and that this could be connected in on-going ontology work being done e.g. in the Museum community, such as the Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM). The result of this was the establishment of a Ontologies SIG at the 4th annual members meeting of TEI in October 2004.

The SIG runs a mailing list on this topic. To join, send a message to tei-ontology-sig-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word SUBSCRIBE in the header or the body of the email.

The SIG is convened by Øyvind Eide, of the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo, and Christian-Emil Ore, of the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo, who is also the chair of The International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC).

== Meeting on October 23 2004 ==

The meeting was held during the 4th annual [[conferences# TEI Members Meeting|members meeting of TEI]] in Baltimore in October 2004.

As a motivation for the conveners' interest in the topic, a short introduction to the CIDOC-CRM was given, together with a description of how the Unit for Digital Documentation use the standard. This was combined with a lively discussion about TEI and ontologies in general, and on the CIDOC-CRM standard in specific.

In 2004 and 2005, the conveners have promised to do the following work:

* Set up a mailing list (2004)
* Create a simple web page (2004)
* Locate people interested in participation
* Communicate with ICOM/CIDOC
* Do TEI-CRM work on some of our data
* Report on our work to the SIG list
* Report progress at the next TEI meeting

In addition, we hope others will report on their work to the mailing list.

It was also agreed that the following tasks should be done by someone, but the responsibility was not appointed to anyone in specific:

* Identify all elements in TEI with ontological relevance
* Define mappings from these elements to CRM and to other ontological systems
* Identify missing elements in both standards
* Find the borders between TEI and ontologies in order to avoid duplication
* Investigate the use of [[METS]] as a way to connect TEI to CRM
* Feedback into TEI P5 based on the aforementioned tasks
* Suggest more complete solutions on the integration/connection issue

== Open meeting on June 15 2005 ==

The TEI Ontologies SIG held an open meeting during the ACH/ALLC
Conference in Victoria, Canada, on June 15, 2005. Six persons were participating.

=== Introduction ===

In the minutes from the lest meeting, two groups of tasks were set up:

1. Tasks the conveners promised to do in 2004 and 2005

2. Tasks we agreed should be done, but with no appointed person responsible

The tasks in group 1 are all on-going or finished, while of the tasks
in group 2, only the identification of elements in TEI with
"ontological relevance" (more on this expression below) is started.

=== Motivation ===

As a motivation for his interest in this work, Øyvind Eide described a
project in which an analysis of relationships between person name
elements in a TEI document was modeled in CIDOC-CRM. This work was
discussed by the group, together with some aspects of the CIDOC-CRM
model.

The group agreed on the general idea that there are things, such as
relationships between persons, that should be modeled outside TEI, but
with a possibility for links to TEI documents.

=== Identification of TEI element ===

This item was presented to the group as "Identifying TEI elements of
special ontological interest". This initiated a discussion, because
the group rejected the wording. Several other phrases were suggested
to replace "special ontological interest", among them "extra-textual
(ontological) interest" and "references to the physical world". None
of these truly covers what we want to express, though.

Nevertheless, there were an common general understanding about what
kind of elements we were talking about: Elements such as names, date
and performances of plays, while elements such as italics, stanza and
paragraphs are outside the scope of this SIG.

Time did not permit any actual investigation into which elements in
TEI are of interest.

The on-going work in the FRBR/CIDOC-CRM Harmonization Group was
discussed. It was argued that the TEI community should be involved in
this work.

2005-08-01 Øyvind Eide

== Meeting on October 28 2005 ==

The meeting was held in Sofia on the morning of October 28, 2005. Six
persons were participating.

With reference to the last meeting in Victoria, there was a discussion
about the scope of the SIG. We have not been able to make any precise
definition, and will have to do with the more practical description of
our scope as "elements such as persons, places, dates and events".

The SIG agreed that the example presented at the first day of the TEI
meeting by Conal Tuohy at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre is a
good example of the type of work interesting for this SIG.

The group discussed whether we should propose a generalized event
element in TEI, similar to the name element. We did not conclude on
this, but it should be further discussed.

We also discussed different ways to connect a TEI document to
ontological information. A TEI document can contain the ontology,
either as reference or included. We will work further on examining
practical implementations of such connections.

=== Plans for 2006 ===

We feel that we should now be able to do practical work to see how the
ideas discussed in the SIG will work in practical implementation. The
conveners will work on this, and will publish results, both on the SIG
list an WIKI, and through other channels.

It was also interest in exploring ways to include Topic Maps in the
TEI header.

The conveners will publish examples of our work on the WIKI, as will
the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. We hope this can lead on to a
best practice document.

The SIG will probably have a meeting at the Digital Humanities
conference in Paris in 2006.

2005-12-09 Øyvind Eide

== Meeting on October 28 2006 ==

11 persons were present at (parts of) the meeting.

=== The last year ===

The activity on the list and the WIKI has been quite limited the last
year, and only the convener have posted anything either place. There
is a visible interest in the topic of the SIG in many areas, though.

The annual conference of The International Committee for Documentation
of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC) was held in
Gothenburg September 10-14. During the meetings of the Documentation
Standards Group, liason with other parties was discussed and the work
in this SIG came up. The group expressed support for the work done by
the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo on the
relationship between CIDOC-CRM and TEI, and hoped the work would
continue. This support includes, of course, to the work being done by
other members of this list and participants at the SIG meetings as
well. The CIDOC do not have an economy which makes it possible with
financial support, but moral support is also good!

=== General discussion ===

The background of the SIG was presented together with a discussion of
the difference between TEI and CIDOC-CRM.

The problem with authority control came up, how the problem relates to
the possible use of FRBM and CIDOC-CRM in connection with TEI was
discussed. There is a need for authority services, and the development
and use of such services is related to the ontology work.

The cut-off point between TEI and conceptual systems/ontologies is an
interesting problem that has to be continously worked on. How much
information should be stored in TEI, how much in other formats with
pointers to the TEI document?

Ontological information systems will often want to point to well
defined access points in TEI.

=== Future work ===

==== CIDOC-CRM ====

The draft for a CIDOC-CRM mapping of some TEI P5 elements being done
by EDD will be published on the mailing list and the WIKI this year.
The possibility for use of the equiv element to express such a mapping
will be examined. Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore is responsible
for this.

We will also work on the construction of parts of a system for
automatic building CIDOC-CRM compatible models based on TEI
documents and the TEI-->CIDOC-CRM mapping in 2007.

==== FRBR ====

Gregory Crane at the [[Perseus Project]] will do some work on the
relationship between FRBR and TEI in 2007 and report to the list and
the WIKI.

==== TEI ====

Instances of persons are just added to TEI at element level, and place
may be on the way (as opposed to names of persons and places). There
are event elements, but only specific (persEvent, event in
transcription of speech). Should a general event element be added as
well?

And maybe a general object element?

There have been some work on different practical methods to relate
ontological information to TEI documents. More experiments are
welcome.

=== Meetings in 2007 ===

The next meeting at the TEI meeting in October 2007. There may also an
interim meeting at the Digital Humanities conference in June 2007 if
potential participants are interested.

2006-11-21 Øyvind Eide

== Meeting on November 3 2007 ==

The meeting was held in College Part, Maryland in the morning of
November 3, 2007, as part of the annual TEI meeting. Six persons were
present.

=== Report from last year's work ===

There have been very little activity on the mailing list, but some relevant
papers have been presented:

* [http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/tekstkoding.html A draft mapping of TEI elements to CIDOC-CRM] was published in January.

* [http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/abstracts/xhtml.xq?id=196 A paper called Expressing Complex Associations in Medieval Historical Documents: The Henry III Fine Rolls Project by Arianna Ciula, Paul Spence, José Miguel Vieira and Gautier Poupeau] was presented at the Digital Humanities conference in June.

* [http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/tekstkoding.html A poster called From TEI to a CIDOC-CRM Conforming Model by Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore] was presented at the Digital Humanities conference in June.

* [http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/program.html#eide_ore A paper called Mapping from TEI to CIDOC-CRM: Will the New TEI Elements Make any Difference? by Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore] was presented at the TEI meeting.

Two interesting projects have been noted:

* [http://www.frh3.org.uk/ The Henry III Fine Rolls Project].

* The Perseus project is combining TEI documents with museum data using CIDOC-CRM and FRBR, as described in the article [http://www.springerlink.com/content/3373t3705h972u28/?p=087a5198fcfb40f5a62fd17dc2fc4d36&pi=0 Named Entity Identification and Cyberinfrastructure by Alison Ba beu, David Bamman, Gregory Crane, Robert Kummer and Gabriel Weaver].

The work on FRBR that was planned last year has not yet been completed.

=== Discussion at the meeting ===

[http://cidoc.mediahost.org/co_reference_wg(en)(E1).xml The new CIDOC Co-reference Working Group] was presented. The
group will work on solutions for co-referencing particulars in various
culture heritage information systems, including TEI documents.

The draft mapping to CIDOC-CRM of selected elements from TEI P5 was
discussed, without any conclusions. It was agreed that further
discussions should take place on the mailing list, though.

A mapping to CIDOC-CRM of one of the examples in chapter 13 was
described and discussed. It was agreed that some guidelines for how to
create TEI documents easy to map to ontologies such as the CIDOC-CRM
would be a nice accomplishment.

The [[Henry III Fine Rolls Project]] and their use of an ontology in
combination with TEI were described and discussed. This approach
really helps the project, but we think it will be even more of an advance where
data from several project may be combined, using the ontology as the
connection layer.

=== Plans for the next year ===

There will be a SIG meeting at the TEI meeting in London in
October/November 2008. There may also be a meeting at the Digital
Humanities conference in Oulu in June 2008 if there is any interest
for it.

There should be some discussion on the mailing list about the issues
raised at this meeting. We also agreed to try to locate funding for
our work.

Progress on the Co-reference work and on the Henry III Fine Rolls
Project will be reported on the mailing list.

There is an interest to work on the mapping of TEI to FRBRoo, and we
hope some results will be presented on the email list. We will also
continue to work on mappings to CIDOC-CRM, especially of TEI examples,
and report on the list as well as elsewhere.

Work should start on the development of guidelines for how to create
TEI documents that easily may be mapped to ontologies such as the
CIDOC-CRM, and results should be reported to the mailing list.

2007-11-26 Øyvind Eide

== Papers ==

Some paper with relevance to the work of this SIG have been presented lately.
The following is a short list, please add more!

[http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/abstracts/xhtml.xq?id=196 Arianna Ciuala, Paul Spence, José Miguel Vieira and Gautier Poupeau: Expressing Complex Associations in Medieval Historical Documents: The Henry III Fine Rolls Project]

[http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/teknikk_informatikk/CIDOC2006/EIDE_HOLMEN_Reading_Gray_Literature.pdf Eide, Ø and Holmen, J: Reading Gray Literature as Texts. Semantic Mark-up of Museum Acquisition Catalogues]

[http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/DHs.pdf Eide, Ø and Ore, CE: TEI, CIDOC - CRM and a Possible Interface between the Two. Page 62-65]

[http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/tekstkoding.html Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore: From TEI to a CIDOC-CRM Conforming Model (poster)]

[http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/program.html#eide_ore Øyvind Eide and Christian-Emil Ore: Mapping from TEI to CIDOC-CRM: Will the New TEI Elements Make any Difference?]

=== Draft CIDOC-CRM mapping of TEI ===

[http://www.edd.uio.no/artiklar/tekstkoding.html The draft mapping, together with a presentation of this SIG]. Please comment to oyvind.eide@edd.uio.no.

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