Date:         Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:47:05 -0400
From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject:      TEI report

David Chesnutt is the ACH representative on the TEI Board, a position that
expires with David's term, in October of this year.  At that point, his
seat on the board will be elected, not appointed, and it will no longer be
reserved for ACH representation.  This arrangement is part of the original
agreement to establish the TEI Consortium, agreed to by the ACH EC several
years ago, and it is part of a general strategy of migrating the TEI from a
project of several existing professional societies to a stand-alone
non-profit membership organization.  The TEI was incorporated as a 501(c)3
corporation in December of 2001.  Also part of that transition plan: the
transfer of ownership of the TEI Guidelines to the Consortium, which took
effect with the publication of P4, the most recent revision of the
guidelines, published June 15, 2002.

P4 is the first XML-compliant version of the guidelines, and it is a
significant revision.  It includes a new "Gentle introduction to XML"
(available on the TEI Web site at http://www.tei-c.org in xml, pdf
(separately paginated) and html), as well as expanded and corrected
examples, new material on writing systems, and many other changes.  Members
receive a print copy of the guidelines free, have access to pdf for the
whole of the two-volume set on the web, and can buy additional print copies
for $60.  Non-members pay $90 for the set.  Print volumes are being
distributed by the University of Virginia Press, and can be ordered via the
web.

Membership in the Consortium, at 58 institutional members, is still only a
little better than half of what it needs to be for the Consortium to
sustain itself financially over the long term, so EC members are encouraged
to recruit their home institutions, especially their libraries, to become
members, if they have not already done so.  The next TEI members meeting
will be in October, in Chicago, at the Newberry.

By the next time we meet, in 2003, the TEI will no longer be a sponsored
project of the ACH, so I move that we drop the TEI report as a standing
item on the agenda for future ACH-EC meetings, and simply encourage EC
members to attend the TEI open meeting that always takes place at the
annual ACH/ALLC conferences.

VOTE: drop the TEI report as a standing item on the ACH-EC agenda