Minutes for March 10, 2009

TEI conf call 3/10/09

Michelle Dalmau (co-chair), Kevin Hawkins (co-chair), Melanie Schlosser, Perry Willett (notes), Rich Wisneski, Glen Worthy

• Recommend using external pointers to non-MARC and other metadata rather than include in header.
  • What's the mechanism?
  • We want a flexible mechanism since you might want to point from nearly any part of the header. Is there a global attribute available: uri? xml:base? Kevin will discuss with Syd.
  • Can there be some description about what is being pointed to (e.g. collection of MODS records for journal issue)?
• We tabled the page break discussion. Syd was the main proponent for making a change.
• FW forme work: Should we include in BPG? KH will follow up with Paul Schaffner (Text Creation Partnership) and Chris Powell. TCP uses FW, and Chris has some experience in promoting texts from level 1 to 4. Was content (such as running head) stripped out or something else done with it?
• Name tagging: we recommended that people use external authority files. They will be easier to maintain than inline <choice> content. MD will propose some explicit examples.
• Header section is almost complete. Everyone should look at it again. There is a column in the element table for MARC equivalent. The first version of the header BPG included equivalences, but it hasn’t been looked at in 10 years. KH will look at those, and MD will call on some catalogers who attended a TEI training workshop. We will revisit after DLF.
• MD reported that Level 3 is almost finished. She will send out an email to the list asking everyone on the working group to look at it again.