SIG:Correspondence/task-force-correspDesc
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Task force "correspDesc"
- Members: Marcel Illetschko, Sabine Seifert, Peter Stadler
- "Pusher": Mariana Gomes
We will try to make our work as transparent and open as possible so others can chime in and contribute at every stage. Please feel free to make use of all the various comment/edit/share/fork functions or to contact us directly.
Goal
Create a formal proposal for a <correspDesc> (or whatever name) element for approval by the TEI council as a new element of the TEI standard. This work shall be based on the "second draft for a correspondence module and a wrapper element for correspondence meta data" as it was started during the 2012 SIG meeting.
Background
There have been several P4 projects with a dedicated correspondence schema (DALF probably being the renowned). While several correspondence tags (<postscript> etc.) are available from the TEI P5 standard, there is no specific way of dealing with correspondence meta data (e.g. sender, addressee) in the current TEI header. Since that's an impediment on the interoperability and interchange of these texts and since there are good practice models working with a <correspDesc>, the SIG Correspondence started to draft such a proposal during its 2012 meeting and now set up a task force for elaborating this draft.
Repositories
https://github.com/TEI-Correspondence-SIG/correspDesc This will be the main place for bringing together the proposal
Meetings
Conf Call Nov. 6, 2013
First meeting of the task force. We summed up the SIG meeting at Rome and made sure that we all shared (more or less) the same ideas about the goal of the task force. Had a look at the "second draft" from last year which we decided to take as a starting point for future work.
Furthermore we decided on GitHub as a central repository for carrying out the work on our proposal and envisioned a face2face meeting at the beginning of next year as sort of a "boot camp" (scheduled for Jan. 13/14 in Berlin).
Next conf call shall be on Nov. 26, 12PM were we will look more closely at DALF and try to narrow down the "correspondence specific meta data".
Literature and previous work
- Request for a correspondence module and a wrapper element for correspondence meta data
- Winfried Woesler: Richtlinienvorschläge für Briefkommentare, in: Wissenschaftliche Briefeditionen und ihre Probleme. Editionswissenschaftliches Symposium, Berlin 1998, p. 87–96
