BP revision ticket triage

Probably not controversial

easy implementation

• issue 6: revisit encoding of ISBNs – complete
• issue 20: revised "display examples" for levels 3 and 4 – complete
• issue 21: reconsider rend="keep-hyphen" – complete.
• issue 22: a corrigible error to fix (accidentally referring to Tite!) – complete
• issue 29: explain how to use just the header recommendations from the Best Practices – complete
• issue 30: milestones occurring at div boundaries – complete
• issue 33: clarify where to encode <pb/>s: at a point where more than one div is opened or closed at once – complete
• issue 34: clarify where to encode <pb/>s: footnotes not entirely on same page as point of attachment – complete
• issue 43: header section: note about complete customizations – Syd agreed to implement
• issue 45: controlled vocabulary for @type on divs? – Elli is working on this.

medium implementation

• issue 3: rewrite section on @rend and @rendition to account for @style – assigned to Peter to implement
• issue 4: clarify representations of milestones – complete
• issue 5: rewrite discussion of @key and @ref to discuss magic tokens and Linked Data – complete
• issue 8: consider adding <width> and <height> as children of <extent> – After reflection, Kevin has withdrawn this.
• issue 15: add <distinct> to Level 4? – complete
• issue 18: rework Level 1 and Level 2 structure? – decided not to implement
• issue 24: tagging events – complete
• issue 25: Cover MARC records and TEI body – BPTL group think this is out of scope. Since Stuart hasn't added anything, we've closed the issue.
• issue 42: idno as child of biblStruct – Kevin will implement.

hard implementation

• issue 2: update the tie to a specific version of P5 – Syd will return to this after release of P5 3.0.0 – and issue 37: ODDs are invalid – Syd will complete.
• issue 7: give guidance on incorporating outside metadata into a header – Kevin will propose a solution.
• issue 9: intertwingled content in <editorialDecl> – Syd will implement
• issue 13: update to take into account RDA – Kevin has recruited a cataloger colleague to help
• issue 27: Coordinated OCR in BPTL – postponed indefinitely ("dormant")
• issue 38: build process broken – complete
• issue 47: Some comments on the Header (comparison of BPTL against P5) – Elli will investigate, consulting with Syd as necessary

Could be controversial

easy implementation

• issue 36: specify how to encode sigla – Kevin will propose a solution

medium implementation

• issue 14: how to record non-ASCII characters – Elli and Syd to check Kevin's draft prose
• issue 17: how to indicate conformance to the BP? – waiting on December 2016 release of P5 to proceed
• issue 31: ambiguity over use of <lb/>, <cb/>, and <pb/> in Level 4 – Elli will implement

hard implementation

• issue 10: indicating interviewers and interviewees — agreed to implement, need a volunteer to implement
• issue 11: encoding <pb>s within <note>s — agreed to implement, need a volunteer to implement
• issue 12: bibliographies and other lists of works cited
• issue 16: give guidance on encoding serials and composite documents
• issue 26: Add (or update) examples to show use of modern authorities

Postpone

• issue 19: pb@xml:id and METS
• issue 23: relation of BP to TEI Simple (explaining the difference between the BPTL, TEI Simple, and TEI Lite)
• issue 28: update to take into account BIBFRAME
• issue 44: proofreading auto-generated HTML – assigned to James for the future
• issue 46: BPTL Level 4 and Simple (attempting to reconcile the two)