This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Germany License TEI Council Laurent Romary

NameSeite Overview  A good team and a good atmosphere  Technical work and evangelisation  E.g. … a trial phase (2 years)

NameSeite Council members  Term January 2007 to December 2008  Tone Merete Bruvik (University of Bergen, NO)  Arianna Ciula (King's College London, UK)*  James Cummings (University of Oxford, UK)*  John Walsh (Indiana University, US)  Term January 2008 to December 2009  Gabriel Bodard, (King's College London, UK)  Peter Boot (Huygens Institute,NL)  Elena Pierazzo (King's College London)  Paul Schaffner (University of Michigan, US)  David Sewell (University of Virginia, US)  Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne, DE)  Non-elected  Laurent Romary (Chair)  Daniel O'Donnell (Board Chair)  Newcomers - as of 7 Nov results  Sebastian Rahtz, Dot Porter

NameSeite Meetings  2008  7 February 2008: conference call  April 2008: Galway Meeting  Local organisation: Moore Institute (Malte Rehbein)  Symposium on Wed. 2 April  21 August 2008: conference call  7 October 2008: conference call  2009  Strong wish for two face to face meetings  Call for hosting!

NameSeite Organisation  No more editors… but  Editorial support group  Oxford (Lou Burnard, Sebastian Rahtz, James Cummings)  Duties  “air traffic controller”: monitoring of bug and feature requests, periodic summaries of significant changes  Handling minor fixes and prepare releases  Maintain tools (XSL stylesheets and Roma)  Connection to SIGs  Susan Schreibman (SIG chair)

NameSeite Guideline status  Two major official releases per year  TEI P , Jul 2008  TEI P (Feb 2008)  TEI P , TEI MM/ the Halloween version  Limited number of copies at the back of the room  Ongoing version on SourceForge  Releases  SourceForge update, compiled packages+schemas, guidelines

NameSeite Handling changes  All requests handled through the TEI SourceForge tracker (Bugs and features)  Editorial support group duty  Trace bug/features on TEI-L and TEI-C discussion lists  Note: TEI-L as main source for feedback from the community  Prepare cases for council meetings  Break out sessions in Galway  green, amber, red lists in Telcos

NameSeite Outreach  Improvement of List, Website and Wiki usage and support  Liaison with the TEI board  Update on examples in the guidelines  Connection with SIGs  “Corresponding” council member/Liaison  Tools  Identifying priorities: Roma support  Internationalization  Getting started with the TEI  Ed. Peter Boot  Support to/interaction with TEI based projects:  TEI-ISO collaboration, TEI Tite, ENRICH, TEI by example

NameSeite Any plans for next year?  Roadmap for issues to be put on the table  Expanding and improving the guidelines  Recommendation for editing genetic editions  Physical bibliographies  Critical apparatus chapter  … additional strong requests from the community  Editorial and technical support  Roma as an Online validation service  Stylesheet templates per modules  Providing localized examples  Stable reference to TEI objects  P4 to P5  and schematron rules  Dropping support for DTDs?  Mapping with other standardization activities

NameSeite A little demo? 

NameSeite Pointers  Council web page   Council Wiki   Getting started   SourceForge 