EDAG February 2024 call agenda

Date: Wednesday February 21st, 16:00 GMT = 17:00 CET = 11:00 EST

Present: Federico Aurora (FA), Elina Boeva (EB), Gabriel Bodard (GB), Hugh Cayless (HC), Scott DiGiulio (SD), Elli Mylonas (EMy), Emmanuelle Morlock (EMo), Nicolas Souchon (NS), Nora White (NW), Polina Yordanova (PY)

Apologies: Alessio Sopracasa, Thomas Kollatz, Scott Vanderbilt, Marta Fogagnolo, Alice Bencivenni, Chiara Cenati

Chair: Nora White

Post meeting minute cleanup: MF

Agenda items:

• Membership: welcome to the new members

• Federico Aurora

• Chiara Cenati

• Nicolas Souchon

• Next co-chair: NW. Thank you! 🙂

• Approve Minutes January 2024

• 9.6 Release:

• Release Day -28: Announce release schedule: Feb. 22

• Release Day -15: Last call for edits (preferably a Monday): Mar. 4

• Release Day -8: Call for testing (preferably a Monday): Mar. 11

• Release Day -5: Candidate release (preferably a Thursday): Mar. 14

• Release Day: Final release: Mar. 20

• Post-Release Day: Debriefing at EDAG: Mar. 20

• Release technicians: NW, MF, GB

• A tribute to Jamie

• GB & PY suggest cleaning up the docs and write a dedication

• EMo & EM suggest a dedication up top in the GitHub repo

• Project “Altergraphy” on Chinese inscriptions (Lia Wei): need for an EpiDoc regular consultant.

• ask Alessio if it is a job with a financial compensation

• EMo proposes thematic sessions for each project

• GB suggests Markup list - maybe EpiDoc should provide some documentation for how to join/ask questions on the Markup list.

• EM suggests they need an introduction to EpiDoc and digital epigraphy - turns out they’ve been to workshops and looked at the existing tutorials.

• put Lia in contact with the DHARMA project > she already is says EMo

• Standing items:

• Markup list (see below)

• and EpiDoc FRs, Bugs, Pull Requests, EFES issues reminder (see below)

• EFES standing agenda item (see below)

• Training standing item

• Current epigraphy

• events, training, new publications

• new EpiDoc projects

• Roman Provincial Coinage online: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/ (Oxford)

• (Submitted to DFG) The coinage of sulṭān Yaʿqūb Aqquyunlu (r. 1478–1490): Centralized innovation and regional continuity between eastern Anatolia and western Iran during the saddle period of the ‘Turkmen’ intermezzo through an XML-based numismatic corpus (Bayreuth/Köln)

• DH/epigraphic conferences that EDAG might contribute to

TICKET SPRINT 

• EpiDoc Bugs (from the November 2023 and January 2024 ticket sprint)

• 183 Stylesheets default handling of tei:milestone not very useful

• In the ticket, summarize what happens in XSLT

• Assigned to EMo

• 179Text direction: GL and XSL need improving

• TKo will diagnose behaviour and report back

• EpiDoc Pull Requests

• add missing 't:' prefix to template (Approved, merged and squashed)

• EpiDoc 22  FRs

accepted 16

deferred 1

needs-feedback 1

pending 2

unread 2

• 169: Revise GL page on quotation marks

• 168: Index of TEI elements: enhancements

• 167: Encoding permission/ethical metadata

• Discussion has started (MF will propose for next release)

• 166: Clear citation practice for parts of EpiDoc resources

• 165: Consider nested ab for formatting changes

• 158: Consider wrapping lines or line groups in HTML output

• 157: Mycenaean/Wingspread to EpiDoc concordance

• 156: Remove legacy Unicode display of glyphs from XSLT

• 155: Expansion to guidelines for "haplography"

• 152: Multiple origDate elements

• 144: Add @rend value of 'inserted' to `hi` element

• 139: Update, format, correct, supplement examples in GL

• 137: Example and documentation of chained ODD

• 120: Investigate getting Guidelines crawled by Internet Archive

• 118: Menu on all pages reflecting table of contents

• 113: Inline editorial correction of previous edition

• 103: Testing procedure for changes in the XSLT stylesheets

• 95: Give examples of @type on persName

• 93: Create documentation/training material for Example Stylesheet parameters

• 85: Re-engineer guidelines process to use tunnel parameters for examples

• 79: Clarify and complete guidance on line placement/​formatting

• 74: Add basic functionality for INTERNAL apparatus to XSLT

• EFES issues reminder:

• 14 open issues

• Standing items: Markup list

• December 2023: discussion about “surrogates”