SIG:CMC/2nd SIG meeting in Dortmund, 20 February 2014

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The 2nd SIG meeting was held as part of the 7th workshop of the scientific network Empirikom on "Social Media Corpora for the eHumanities: Standards, Challenges, and Perspectives".

Participants / contributors

Michael Beißwenger (Dortmund)
Thierry Chanier(Clermont-Ferrand)
Isabella Chiari (Rome)
Maria Ermakova (Berlin)
Axel Herold (Berlin)
Kun Jin (Clermont-Ferrand)
Lothar Lemnitzer (Berlin)
Iris Hendrickx (Nijmegen)
Laurent Romary (INRIA)
Angelika Storrer (Dortmund)
Andreas Witt (Mannheim)

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Presentations/statements and discussions

1. Introduction: General Requirements and Issues in Defining a TEI Schema for the Representation of CMC (Michael Beißwenger)
2. Activities of the SIG 'TEI for Linguists' and possible cooperations with the SIG 'CMC' (Andreas Witt)
3. Managing change in the TEI guidelines (Laurent Romary)
4. A Basic Schema for the Representation of CMC in TEI:Current State (Maria Ermakova, Michael Beißwenger, Thierry Chanier, Kun Jin, Lothar Lemnitzer, Angelika Storrer)
5. Metadata for CMC: Keypoints and Open Issues (Axel Herold, Isabella Chiari, Thierry Chanier)

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Minutes from the discussions:

• There is a range of issues of joint interest between the Linguists-SIG and the CMC-SIG. Cooperation and joint activities are of interest for both sides => plan for a joint meeting of both SIGs at the TEI-MM2014?
• A reasonable way to go about making proposals for adapting the TEI guidelines to the peculiarities of CMC genres: (1) Describe ideas/suggestions and discuss them on the TEI list, (2) Formalize proposals and put them on Sourceforge as feature requests => plan to start into step (1) as soon as possible by documenting the ideas/suggestions from the Dortmund meeting on the SIG's wiki pages and inviting people via the TEI list to comment/discuss these suggestions; subsequently revise suggestions considering feedback/comments/issues raised in the discussions and then do step (2) and make a feature request (starting with the basic schema)
• The current version of the basic schema comprises models needed for the representation of both text-only CMC and multimodal CMC (namely the models <post>, and <prod>). The TEI schema developed for the representation of the CoMeRe corpora is already conformant with this basic schema. Laurent: "Write down good arguments why you think you need the new elements/models in your schema (and why you couldn't use elements/models which already exist in TEI-P5) when you make a feature request/invite other people from the TEI to comment on and discuss your suggestions.

Next steps/further work

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Plans for next meeting

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