Draft agenda for June 5, 2014 ALTO board teleconference. If you have changes or additions, please email them to everyone as soon as possible.
- Review action items [Frederick leads discussion]
- Review comments -- especially the comment about incompatibility between v2.0 and v2.1 schemas -- received about draft schema version 2.1. [Everyone]
- Discuss release of ALTO schema v2.2 with named types to accommodate ALTO dialects (discussed during last teleconference). [Everyone]
- Review ALTO poster for IFLA WLIC Aug 18-19 in Lyon France. [Jean Philippe and Frederick lead discussion]
ALTO editorial board face-to-face meeting: Where will it be? Most likely at WLIC 2014 (http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80) in Lyon (Aug 16-22). Less likely at the JCDL/TPDL Joint Conference (http://www.dl2014.org/) in London (Sep 8-12)? least likely at the DLF Forum (http://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/) in Atlanta, Georgia (Oct 27-29)? [Frederick leads discussion]
- Review migration from PBWorks to Github (see Action 2014-02-20 below). Jukka may demonstrate how to migrate open proposals from PBWorks to Github. [Frederick harangues everyone. Jukka demonstrates migration.]
- Overview of ResCarta toolkit (http://www.rescarta.org/). [Brian leads discussion.]
- Discuss creation of an ALTO Github website. See http://altoxml.github.io. [Frederick leads discussion]
- Reminder to send URLs to digital collections which use ALTO XML to Nate so that he can update the ALTO use case examples at http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/community/implementers.php [Frederick harangues everyone]
Action items
- [Action 2014-04-24] Jean Philippe will create a branch of the v2.1 ALTO schema on Github. The branch will be used to implement the needed named types for ALTO dialects in schema v2.2.
- [Action 2014-04-24] Jean Philippe will draft a design for the ALTO poster at WLIC 2014.
- [Action 2014-04-24] Jukka will create a short document showing how to migrate open change proposals from PBWorks to Github.
- [Action 2014-02-20] Everyone will copy the open proposal that they champion from PBworks to Github. The open proposals will become "issues" in Github.
- [Action 2013-12-12] Brian will create text for an ALTO tools and software webpage.
- [Action 2013-11-03] Frederick will try to recruit a board member from an OCR software development team, perhaps Tesseract.
- [Action 2013-11-03] Frederick will try to recruit a board member from an Asian language country.
- [Action 2013-09-19] Everyone to send ALTO use cases to Nate. Nate will add new use cases to the ALTO implementers webpage.
- [Action 2013-04-11] Frederick will draft a change proposal for "normalized" coordinates.