TEI council report Business as usual or le calme avant la tempête… Laurent Romary, INRIA Gemo & Humbodt Univ. IDSL

The 2009 council activities in short A stable and ripe organization – Source forge with inputs from the TEI community See: – Editorial support – Annual F2F and trimester Audios – Intensive debates on TEI council list when needed Colored tempo (green, amber, red)

Complementary activities Implication in SIG activities – Help in creation (Scholarly publishing) – Articulation with council work (TEI in libraries) – SIG grant proposal Participation in TEI projects – TEI Tite RFP Re-organizing the website for better access to technical information – On-going work… Evangelization – Many council members act as disseminators (tutorials, workshops, invited talks, etc.) – The council has a political role (e.g. Research infrastructures) E.g. Clarin/Dariah standardization roadmap

Technical work Filling the gaps (,, etc.) Constant cleaning-up of guidelines (better content models, better set of classes, better definitions) Examples! Accompany new initiatives – Manuscript transcription An underlying duty – Preserving the technical coherence (avoid hacks) – Anticipating on necessary evolutions (e.g. ODD)

Issues Turnover? – We lose competent people – The council as a training environment… Tools? – Maintenance of Roma, Vesta, stylesheets – Identifying other needs (TEI repository? – cf. Dariah) – Budget! Convergence – Cf. ISO committee TC 37/SC 4 Working more coherently to avoid divergence (ODD specs, basic mechanisms, shared modules, shared communication?, joint technical work?) – Providing support for communities to use the TEI framework (preventing the NLM syndrom) E.g. EpiDoc case: helping the move to P5 – Close collaboration with council to resolve outstanding issues

Issues – cont. Customizations – TEI is a stable infrastructure – More emphasis on community specific customizations TEI Tite Scholarly publishing Speech transcription ODD – ESF grant application – We need a vision, a master plan… and resources Getting started – Higher up on the priority list More support through projects – Cf. Tite RFP, ISO-TEI – Involve TEI in grant applications

Personal view I don’t understand a word in many discussions ;-) — the council works well because you have true specialists there The TEI is really taking momentum and fame — also in managerial spheres We need to find ways to fulfill expectations from outside — budget, communication, collaboration…

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