Minutes <title>Of the Steering Committee Meeting <title>Bernardsville, New Jersey, 22-23 October 1988 <author>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <docnum>TEI SC M 5 <date>2 January 1989, minor corr. &docdate. <etitlep> <efrontm> <body> Present: RA, NI, MSM, DW, AZ. Absent: SH. <h1>1. European Funding AZ reported on the progress of the search for European funding. The letter drafted in Jerusalem, a more detailed account, and finally a specific proposal have been sent to the EEC. The lexical aspect of the project needs to be stressed for them. Extracts from the technical annex to the draft agreeement were read and discussed. It was decided that MSM would draft revisions to the schedule in the technical annexe and propose alternate wording for the description of the deliverable resutls. The ESF has appointed AZ the subject specialist for computing in the humanities for another term. One of the four lines of the ESF program is computing in the humanities; any funds for TEI would be an instantiation of this line. <h1>2. Working Committees It was decided that the participating organizations would have until 31 January to make their nominations for the working committees; an initial description of their plans for their committees would be requested from the committee heads by 15 December. It should discuss the organization of the committee, names of potential members, subcommittee structure, possible subcommittee members, and might possibly include a preliminary survey of the content of the committee's work. A meeting with the committee heads was scheduled for January 9-10, so that we can talk with them before the Advisory Board meets February 18-19. A formal version of the committee heads' papers will be due 1 February 1989, to go to the Advisory Board. A final version will be due 1 March 1989, to be published in the working papers of the TEI. <h1>3. Syntax Committee Mamrak, NI, David Barnard, and a representative of Sobemap are to serve as the temporary syntax committee, to prepare a preliminary syntax for the guidelines in time for presentation to the Advisory Board in February. Mentioned as possible members of the Metalanguage committee (a superset of the syntax group) were: those just named, someone from the group of computing humanists at Brown (Mylonas, Renear, DeRose, Durand, Coombs), Paul Fortier, Yuri Rubinsky, M. J. Kaelbling, M. Guittet, J. (?) Smith, Jean Schumacher, Eugenio Picchi, Jacques Dendien. <h1>4. Existing Schemes It was decided to gather documentation for a number of existing schemes and send it to Sandra Mamrak. RA pointed out that we should be sure to cover various content areas: publishing, input data for processing programs, database-loader records, and <q>pure<eq> content markup not necessarily intended for a single program. It was decided that NI would collect and forward to SM documents on: <ul><li>the TLG encoding, <li>the Brown tagged corpus, <li>the DEI codes, <li>the Pisa encoding, <li>OCP, <li>WatCon, <li>Thaller's work, <li>Bozzi's system for variants, <li>Cobuild guide book, <li>collection of documents by Hindle for Pisa summer school, <li>Norwegian Wittgenstein project.<eul> In choosing the schemes to be treated formally in the guidelines, AZ suggested choosing (a) complex systems, to show that our system is adequate and (b) schemes from large important archives, making certain also to ensure (c) wide geographic distribution, (d) wide linguistic distribution, and (e) coverage of many subject fields. <h1>5. Archives Board The archives board decided on in September must be constituted. We discussed possible member archives, and agreed that MSM would discuss the issue with Lou Burnard; Lou will be asked to suggest other archives appropriate for the board. <h1>6. Outline of Design Principles MSM outlined the contents of the basic design document he is now engaged in drafting; the basic outline was approved and suggestions made on substantive points and on points needing clarification. <ebody> <egdoc

.* TEI Document No: SC M 5 .* Title: Minutes of Bernardsville meeting 22-23 October 1988 .* Drafted: CMSMcQ, 10 Jan 89 .* Revised: 2 Jan 89, also 1 May 90 i.e.docdate .* .im gmlpaper .sr docfile = &sysfnam. ;.sr docversion= 'Draft' .im teigml .* Document proper begins. Minutes <title>Of the Steering Committee Meeting <title>Bernardsville, New Jersey, 22-23 October 1988 <author>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <docnum>TEI SC M 5 <date>2 January 1989, minor corr. &docdate. <etitlep> <efrontm> <body> Present: RA, NI, MSM, DW, AZ. Absent: SH. <h1>1. European Funding AZ reported on the progress of the search for European funding. The letter drafted in Jerusalem, a more detailed account, and finally a specific proposal have been sent to the EEC. The lexical aspect of the project needs to be stressed for them. Extracts from the technical annex to the draft agreeement were read and discussed. It was decided that MSM would draft revisions to the schedule in the technical annexe and propose alternate wording for the description of the deliverable resutls. The ESF has appointed AZ the subject specialist for computing in the humanities for another term. One of the four lines of the ESF program is computing in the humanities; any funds for TEI would be an instantiation of this line. <h1>2. Working Committees It was decided that the participating organizations would have until 31 January to make their nominations for the working committees; an initial description of their plans for their committees would be requested from the committee heads by 15 December. It should discuss the organization of the committee, names of potential members, subcommittee structure, possible subcommittee members, and might possibly include a preliminary survey of the content of the committee's work. A meeting with the committee heads was scheduled for January 9-10, so that we can talk with them before the Advisory Board meets February 18-19. A formal version of the committee heads' papers will be due 1 February 1989, to go to the Advisory Board. A final version will be due 1 March 1989, to be published in the working papers of the TEI. <h1>3. Syntax Committee Mamrak, NI, David Barnard, and a representative of Sobemap are to serve as the temporary syntax committee, to prepare a preliminary syntax for the guidelines in time for presentation to the Advisory Board in February. Mentioned as possible members of the Metalanguage committee (a superset of the syntax group) were: those just named, someone from the group of computing humanists at Brown (Mylonas, Renear, DeRose, Durand, Coombs), Paul Fortier, Yuri Rubinsky, M. J. Kaelbling, M. Guittet, J. (?) Smith, Jean Schumacher, Eugenio Picchi, Jacques Dendien. <h1>4. Existing Schemes It was decided to gather documentation for a number of existing schemes and send it to Sandra Mamrak. RA pointed out that we should be sure to cover various content areas: publishing, input data for processing programs, database-loader records, and <q>pure<eq> content markup not necessarily intended for a single program. It was decided that NI would collect and forward to SM documents on: <ul><li>the TLG encoding, <li>the Brown tagged corpus, <li>the DEI codes, <li>the Pisa encoding, <li>OCP, <li>WatCon, <li>Thaller's work, <li>Bozzi's system for variants, <li>Cobuild guide book, <li>collection of documents by Hindle for Pisa summer school, <li>Norwegian Wittgenstein project.<eul> In choosing the schemes to be treated formally in the guidelines, AZ suggested choosing (a) complex systems, to show that our system is adequate and (b) schemes from large important archives, making certain also to ensure (c) wide geographic distribution, (d) wide linguistic distribution, and (e) coverage of many subject fields. <h1>5. Archives Board The archives board decided on in September must be constituted. We discussed possible member archives, and agreed that MSM would discuss the issue with Lou Burnard; Lou will be asked to suggest other archives appropriate for the board. <h1>6. Outline of Design Principles MSM outlined the contents of the basic design document he is now engaged in drafting; the basic outline was approved and suggestions made on substantive points and on points needing clarification. <ebody> <egdoc