Council

Council Telco - 21 August 2008

Minutes of the last meeting: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/tcm39.xml

Issues for next Telco - Oct 2008

• placement of Schematron rules in ODD
• update on '"getting started"', see https://USER@tei.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tei/trunk/Documents/GettingStarted (replacing 'USER' with your SourceForge username)

Note to be produced by SR

Issues for next F2F

• Discussion on ODD and its evolution--Romary 02:34, 9 September 2008 (EDT)

cf. @usage in elementSpec

Topics (could be moved up to one F2F or Telco meeting

• Stable reference to TEI objects

[LR] In many cases, one has to map schemas and describe the mappings by reference to actual objects in the respective encoding schemes. In this context do (should) we have a mechanism to refer uniquely to TEI objects, beyond the reference to the TEI namespace (<author> in http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0), sort of TEI unique identifiers?

[JC] I'd think the proper way to cite an element, class, or datatype generally is to point to its reference page. http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-tree.html

However, we might want to re-examine that... while the hierarchy should remain the same, deprecated elements (etc.) disappear. I have no way easy way to point to something at a particular date in time...unless maybe I point to it at a particular revision in the SVN source tree?

Pointing to a location in the SVN source tree isn't necessarily very pretty but does work and is accurate:

See for example an earlier version of <event>: http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Specs/event.xml?revision=231&view=markup

As a cognate example, I can point to any revision of a page in the TEI wiki at any point in its history. We should be able to do this, somehow, in the official way we are meant to cite TEI sources as changing objects in time.

However, maybe an easier solution is to cite: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-event.html but on the generated reference pages like this contain a link to the appropriate place in the SVN repository? i.e. http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Specs/event.xml?view=log which lists all the revisions.

[AC] The only place on the website where I am ware there are some recommendations with URLs is the citation page: http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/access.xml

This could certainly be enriched with notes on how to point to an element on the line James suggests, but in that case would the version number be enough to point to particular revisions?

Misc.

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