[TEI-ontology-SIG] Minutes from the SIG meeting in June

[E. <oyv...@mu...>]

Dear all,

Please find enclosed a draft for minutes from the SIG meeting in
Victoria i June. Comments are welcome, including corrections from the
people present at the meating.


Notes from the second SIG meeting

   The meeting was held during the ACH/ALLC conference in Victoria,
   Canada, on June 15, 2005. Six persons were participating.
   
  Introduction
  
   In the minutes from the lest meeting, two groups of tasks were set up:
    1. Tasks the conveners promised to do in 2004 and 2005
    2. Tasks we agreed should be done, but with no appointed person
       responsible
       
   The tasks in group 1 are all on-going or finished, while of the tasks
   in group 2, only the identification of elements in TEI with
   "ontological relevance" (more on this expression below) is started.
   
  Motivation
  
   As a motivation for his interest in this work, Øyvind Eide described a
   project in which an analysis of relationships between person name
   elements in a TEI document was modeled in CIDOC-CRM. This work was
   discussed by the group, together with some aspects of the CIDOC-CRM
   model.
   
   The group agreed on the general idea that there are things, such as
   relationships between persons, that should be modeled outside TEI, but
   with a possibility for links to TEI documents.
   
  Identification of TEI element
  
   This item was presented to the group as "Identifying TEI elements of
   special ontological interest". This initiated a discussion, because
   the group rejected the wording. Several other phrases were suggested
   to replace "special ontological interest", among them "extra-textual
   (ontological) interest" and "references to the physical world". None
   of these truly covers what we want to express, though.
   
   Nevertheless, there were an common general understanding about what
   kind of elements we were talking about: Elements such as names, date
   and performances of plays, while elements such as italics, stanza and
   paragraphs are outside the scope of this SIG.
   
   Time did not permit any actual investigation into which elements in
   TEI are of interest.
   
   The on-going work in the FRBR/CIDOC-CRM Harmonization Group was
   discussed. It was argued that the TEI community should be involved in
   this work.

    2005-08-01 Øyvind Eide


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Kind regards,

Øyvind Eide