While I entirely agree with Syd that it's none of Council's business to tell a SIG what to do, I do think we might take a view on the need for such a SIG, and might also check that other parties with experience in the use of TEI with Japanese and other Asian language texts have been involved. I like to start my talk on how the TEI is actually used by pointing to the Dharma Drum monastery in Taiwan (where Marcus Bingenheimer is, or was) which has been actively encoding the sutras in TEI since P3. Christian Wittern, in Kyoto, as a former head of the TEI Council should also be consulted! Charles Muller in Tokyo is another person actively engaged in using TEI for many years. No doubt Nagasaki is already aware of these old timers (Muller appears as co-author on his DH2016 paper which is reassuring) but it would be nice to be reassured that this SIG will be as inclusive as possible. A list of founder members might perhaps be useful? On 16/05/16 03:36, Syd Bauman wrote:
While I agree with James, I don't think it's really Council's jobs to make suggestions as to what might be better. IIRC, we review SIG proposals mostly just to provide a check against a new SIG forming that covers the same area as a previously existing SIG, task force, or work group.