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Draft minutes of the SIG meeting at Rome

This is a draft version for everyone to edit and comment on. The finalized version will be put on the SIG's wiki main page along with the other minutes on Nov 24, 2013 the latest.

SIG Correspondence meeting 2013 minutes

Attendees: Syd Bauman, Benjamin Bohl, Mariana Gomes, Marcel Illetschko, Roland Kamzelak, Angelika Kreh, Anne Lorenz, Solveig Schreiter, Sabine Seifert, Janette Seuffert, Peter Stadler

Presentation of ongoing projects

Attendees very briefly introduced themselves and their ongoing and/or planned projects:

• Peter: Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe
• Roland: Vernetzte Korrespondenzen (Exilbriefnetz)
• Sabine: Briefe und Texte aus dem intellektuellen Berlin um 1800
• Two PhD projects from UCD
• Mariana: Project P.S., Post Scriptum and CARDS, Unknown Letters

Discussion of several correspondence tags

Roland started a vivid discussion of several elements (e.g. <salute>, <opener>, <postscript>) which -- from a structural point of view -- didn't fit into his encoding practices. Peter pointed at SIG:Correspondence#Topics_currently_under_discussion which is a long standing list of those elements. Problem is, that changing these elements would most likely mean to break with the desired backwards compatibility of the TEI Guidelines. Peter made an argument for starting with the easier parts, i.e. creating a new element within the TEI header for capturing correspondence specific metadata. It was agreed to set up a task force for creating such a proposal, given that this idea is around for several years now.