Formax Meeting

 
Klaus Thoden
October 21, 2008

Present: PD, MDH, WS, US, KT, SPT

1 Introduction

Main objective of this meeting was to select the books that are going to be sent to China.

2 Revision of DE Specs 1.1.1

Data Entry Specs 1.1.1 was revised stylistically by MDH. The corrected version 1.1.2 is now frozen and will go to China.

3 Selecting texts to be sent to China

3.1 Present list is not prioritized

US remarked that the list on the wiki (version 11, now deprecated) is not prioritized but sorted alphabetically. Books of the highest priority were then selected:

• Benedetti (1585)
• Conimbricenses (1606)
• Euclid (Clavius-Edition) (1607)

This is Batch 1 which will be sent to China next Friday or Monday.

3.2 Write special rules for the books of Batch 1 where necessary

Some books show idiosyncrasies which cannot be dealt with in the DE Specs. For these books, supplements are added to the DE Specs showing how things should be done.

3.3 Work sample

PD suggested that a special work sample is not necessary. It would be sufficient if the first 50 pages of all books would be sent to us for evaluation.

3.4 Check for faulty images

Before the images are shipped to China, their quality has to be assured.

4 Postponing the XML Schema

Due to the priority of having the books digitized the next meeting of the XML Schema Working Group was postponed again.