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Hi there,

Are you interested in the future of the Text Encoding Initiative 
meta-schema documentation language 'ODD'? Do you want to help 
design its future? Do you see better ways for it to be 
accomplishing what it does? Are you going to be at the Digital 
Humanities 2012 conference in Hamburg this summer?

On the Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 of July 2012, immediately 
following the DH2012 conference, the TEI Technical Council is 
running an open meeting on "The Future of TEI ODD". This meeting 
will discuss some of the current problems with the TEI ODD 
language which underlies the schemas created for any use of the 
TEI. It will discuss where we want this language to go in the 
future and how it might be possible to implement these changes. 
This is not a workshop or training session, but a mostly 
theoretical discussion for those with an interest in the 
underlying infrastructure of the TEI, its Guidelines, and the way 
customisations are implemented on how this should be dealt with 
in the next version of the TEI ODD language.

I've put up an almost entirely empty agenda at: 
http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/ODD-Dev-meetingDH2012

It is intended that the participants will help to fill out this 
agenda as the meeting approaches. That page also has a 
participants list of those who have already agreed to attend this 
meeting.

If you are interested and able to attend, then please add your 
name to the bottom of the participants list! (This will help us 
get an idea of numbers.) If you have issues that you want to make 
sure we discuss, describe them in more detail on the ODD-dev on 
the TEI wiki:
http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/ODD-dev

We also have a panel session during the conference on the Future 
of TEI ODD
http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/wednesday-july-18/
on Wednesday 18 July 11:00-12:30.  This will cover the background 
to some of the issues we will be discussing, so I recommend 
attending this if possible.

Details of the precise location for the meeting at the conference 
site will be given closer to the date.

Hope to see you there,

James Cummings
Chair of TEI Technical Council



-- 
Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
Computing Services, University of Oxford