Re: [tei-council] future of SIG on Libraries; best practices for <sourceDesc>

Great, thanks! I will have a look at the archive and contact the TEI-SIGS LISTSERV. BTW, the Ontologies SIG had a meeting in Victoria... Best, Martina -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: tei-council-bounces@lists.tei-c.org Im Auftrag von Kevin Hawkins Gesendet: Montag, 4. Juni 2018 22:49 An: tei-council@lists.tei-c.org Betreff: Re: [tei-council] future of SIG on Libraries; best practices for <sourceDesc> Martina, thanks for your note. Elli wrote to me about both matters before she went on vacation, and I've already written to the SIG: "Since no one has volunteered to take over the SIG on Libraries, I consulted with the Council, and they've decided that it would be best to mark the SIG on the TEI website as unconvened, as with the SIG on Education, but to leave the mailing list running. This will make it easy for the SIG to resume activity in the future if there's renewed interest." Michelle should have seen the message, and I can't imagine there will be any problem keeping the list running. Since people can subscribe and unsubscribe on their own, it runs itself. I've also already updated the TEI website (old and new!) to say that new convenors for the SIG are "to be determined", which is what we say for the Education SIG (which hasn't had convenors for many years). This implies that the SIG is dormant, but we could certainly use more explicit labeling if you'd prefer. As for the status of other SIGs, I haven't seen any traffic on the Ontologies SIG list since 2014, and there's been almost nothing on the Scholarly Publishing SIG list since 2014 as well. I think those are the only two lists that I'm on. I just discovered that the Education SIG's email list is shown as running on lists.tei-c.org.uk, which certainly doesn't exist anymore. And for some of the other SIGs, you can view the list archives (even without subscribing) to see when messages were last posted. For example, there hasn't been much traffic on the list for the Music SIG in a few years. You could contact the TEI-SIGS LISTSERV, which in theory has as its members the convenors of all SIGs, to ask convenors if they want their SIG to be designated as dormant. However, I'm not sure whether its membership is current. I believe Syd and Elli are administrators of this list. Anyway, just let me know if you'd like labeling updated. Perhaps, by the time you determine which should be labeled as dormant, we'll have a new website that Luis and others can update without me being involved! Kevin On 6/4/18 3:11 PM, Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) wrote:

Dear Kevin,

thank you for letting us know about the situation of the SIG on Libraries. We were talking about it at our meeting last Thursday. We'd suggests to proclaim this SIG as "dormant" on the website, but to keep the teilib-l@list.indiana.edu e-mail list going. Could you please let Michelle Dalmau know that the SIG is now going to be "dormant", so that she knows about the mailing list? You are right, we should do the same with other inactive SIGs. Do any of you know which SIGs are inactive? Or would it be a good moment to find out right before the members meeting when I will ask the convenors for their report?

Elli will contact you about the <sourceDesc> issue.

Best wishes, Martina

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: tei-council-bounces@lists.tei-c.org Im Auftrag von Kevin Hawkins Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2018 04:07 An: tei-council@lists.tei-c.org Betreff: [tei-council] future of SIG on Libraries; best practices for <sourceDesc>

Hello Council members,

Ian, our sysadmin, and I have been corresponding and working through the details of the plan to switch over from OpenCMS to WordPress. As with the rest of the process, we keep turning up details that we want to get right to minimize breakage and downtime. We're making progress, so I still think we'll manage to wrap up this work soon!

Anyway, I'm writing today about the future of the SIG on Libraries. (Any other SIG convenor would write to the Council chair and ask for the Council to discuss, but since I can still post to this list, I thought I'd just write to you directly.)

As in our SIG report delivered in Victoria and as I wrote to the SIG's email list in November, Stefanie Gehrke and I (the currently named convenors of the SIG) need to step down from our roles. No one else has stepped forward to take over. I suggest we retire the SIG until the day when someone else wants to revive it. (You might want to do the same for the other long inactive SIGs. We can certainly update the website to show which are actually active.)

Separately, though, you might remember a discussion in mid-May on TEI-L about best practices around use of <sourceDesc>. Martin Mueller suggested that the SIG on Libraries prepare a proposal on this, and he volunteered to lead such an effort:

https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEI-L;93f8cf13.1805

It seems that this might be better handled as a Council-chartered task force rather than as an activity of the SIG on Libraries, which in theory addresses an ongoing set of interests. Please feel free to get that work going. Neither Stefanie nor I are able to take on this work at this time.

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