SIG meeting Lyon
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TEI SIG on Correspondence - Minutes Lyon, Oct 29, 2015
Status: draft --User: Seifert, 06 December 2015 (EST)
Attendees
Attendees gave a short introduction on their ongoing and/or planned projects:
- Peter Stadler, University of Paderborn, Carl Maria von Weber Collected Works
- Sabine Seifert, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin Intellectuals 1800-1830, Theodor Fontane Archive, University of Potsdam
- Stefan Dumont, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Anne Baillot, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin Intellectuals 1800-1830
- Patrizia Rebulla, [letters.mozartways.com Université Libre de Bruxelles]
- Anna-Maria Sichani, Dixit Fellow The Hague, Huygens KNAW
- Michel de Gruijter, National Library of the Netherlands
- Angelika Kreh, German Literature Archive Marbach, Epistolary Networks
- Mariana Gomes
Report on last year’s activities
It was a successful year:
- further development of <correspDesc> and introduction into the TEI standard
- workshop on "Encoding correspondence meta data with <correspDesc>" held at the TEI conference 2015
- accepted article for jTEI: "Towards a model for encoding correspondence in the TEI. Developing and implementing <correspDesc>" by Marcel Illetschko, Sabine Seifert, Peter Stadler (not yet published)
- further development of the Correspondence Metadata Interchange format (CMI)
- collaboration for the development of the web service correspSearch
Discussion
- SIG for Computer-Mediated Communication
- they work on the same problems as we do concerning meta data and the structure of the communication
- <post> element for a tweet or a posting what would be a letter for us - they plan to file a feature request for that
- they took our <correspAction> and turned it into an attribute
- Peter: we should join forces with them
- "correspSearch"
- Stefan reported on the work on the web service correspSearch
- he wrote a blog post on the "Perspectives of the further development of the Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF)"
- Mariana: Does "correspSearch" accept meta data in other languages?
- Stefan: with authority files etc. no problem
- Peter: information on language of letter in CMIF might be helpful
- Patrizia: case of translations of one letter into different languages
- Stefan: introducing this feature in "correspSearch" might be a good idea
- spread the word
- Anne: recent meeting of CostAction and [ http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/ Mapping the Republic of Letters]
- we should talk to Pip Willcox to make <correspDesc> and "correspSearch" known
- we could write a little standard text to send around to make our work known
- best-practice model
- Patrizia asks for a structure that could be copied, for a best-practice model
- Peter: our next step is to develop a best-practice model
- already some examples online on GitHub and in TEI Guidelines (eg.g. here)
- Maria: we could also prepare some stylesheets
- Peter: possible to create stylesheets to convert regular <correspDesc> to CMIF
- Stefan: use cases for that needed
- stylesheets for extracting all <correspDesc> elements from a corpus
- envelopes
- Mariana: problems with envelopes, where to encode the occurrence of an envelope
- occurrence of envelope should go into <physDesc> → example
- Peter: address can be part of <teiHeader> and also of <body> (normalized data vs. transcription of address)
- How does DALF P5 do that? (ODD file, documentation, schema, and example in this zip file)
- type of correspondence and taxonomy
- Mariana: encoding of type of correspondence and attachments, non-textual assets found in the envelope
- counter-argument was: type of correspondence belongs to <profileDesc>
- SIG could come up with a taxonomy/thesaurus as a suggestion
- perhaps libraries, archives, post museums already have taxonomies
- Patrizia: in Paris is a museum of letters and correspondence, with another branch in Brussels
- Stefan: ask mailing list
- oXygen XML editor
- Mariana: Do older versions of Oxygen work with <correspDesc>?
- Peter: these files don’t validate, one could update the TEI Add on
Future plans
- provide examples
- provide documentation
- taxonomy/thesaurus as a suggestion
- provide best-practice model
- provide stylesheets for extracting all <correspDesc> elements from a corpus
- long-term goal: How to encode textual features with TEI?
