1. A year in the life of the council
Laurent Romary, TEI council chair

2. Making the whole thing work
Editorial support
Council
TEI modules, classes, elements
TEI customizations
TEI documentation
TEI Tools
Source forge
TEI list
Community

3. Ground work One +single+ F2F meeting @ Dublin
Vision: Making the TEI infrastructure more coherent
Coherent behaviors for coherent semantics
E.g. datable, spanning
“Bibl gang”: bibl, biblStruct
idno, biblScope, recommended practices for author description, etc.
Integrating mechanisms for a better coverage of document types
E.g. Manuscript transcription work
Making the management of customization more coherent
E.g. TEI Tite [Kevin Hawkins (Council liaison), Perry Trolard (author of Tite and part of the Mellon grant that funded development of AccessTEI), and Greg Spurlock (from Apex CoVantage)]

4. Ground work – cont. Implementation: hundreds of little steps
Cf. SourceForge: GO!!
Invisible changes
New mechanisms in ODD
From Roma to Roma
New Roma based on XSLT2 stylesheets
Coherence with OxGarage – coherence across endeavors (ePub, ISO, etc.)
Difficult to keep the vision…
Desperately missing a second meeting…
And, and, and, even more

5. The TEI is part of the internet world
IETF/IANA registration:
“defining an 'application/tei+xml' media type for markup languages defined in accordance with the Text Encoding and Interchange guidelines”
<TEI>, <teiCorpus>
.tei, .teiCorpus, .odd
Action coordinated by S. Lundberg
Individual submission under review by Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
Next step: Publication. Can occur during November
Full text:
for further info

6. TEI and ISO – a long standing date
The need for convergence
Joint projects
FSR-FSD
ISO –TEI project (ISO back-office schema)
Wider use of ODD in ISO/TC 37/SC 3 (TMF) and SC 4 (MLIF, MAF, TimeML, FSR, FSD)
Thanks to ODD gurus: LR, LB, SR (making things work)
TEI mechanisms in ISO
Technical convergence:
Cf. work on MAF, meta-data
Going further
MAF (Morphosyntactic annotation framework) as a joint TEI-ISO module?

7. Going further… Next meeting in the US – “American Midwest”
Carrying on the evolution of ODD
Explicit modularity
Less magic
TEI mechanisms (e.g. attribute classes) as reusable building block — cf. crystals
Closer work between ISO and TEI
Linguistic SIG?
ISO gives the models – the TEI make them real
TEI new host configuration
Impact on editorial support
Tool maintenance strategy