Draft agenda for December 11, 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 and feedback from release of ALTO schema v3.0 (if any). [Everyone]
- Report on September 10 ALTO editorial board face-to-face meeting in London: Agenda and summary of items discussed.
[Markus leads discussion]
- Discussion of proposed acceptance of Glyphs change request (issue 26).
(See item 10 in minutes from London face-to-face meeting) [Joachim leads discussion.]
- Discussion of proposed acceptance of Shape change request (issue 22).
(See item 10 in minutes from London face-to-face meeting) [Evelien leads discussion.]
- Discussion about 3 'submitted' change requests: Should these requests advance to 'discussion'? See issue 18,
21, and 12.
[Frederick leads discussion.]
- Review organization and use of Github. See items 1 to 9 in minutes from London face-to-face meeting). [Frederick leads discussion]
- If time permits, a brief report on effort to recruit new board members. Question for Siang Hock: Can you represent Asian languages (instead of recruiting a new board member for this)? [Frederick leads discussion]
- Reminder to send URLs to digital collections which use ALTO XML to Nate so that he can update the use case examples at ALTO Implementers [Frederick harangues everyone]
Action items
- [Action 2014-09-10] Everyone set her/his Github profile to 'public'so that ALTO board members are visible on Github.
- [Action 2014-07-03]
Frederick will contact UT Austin about broken link on Library of Congress's ALTO implementer's webpage.
- [Action 2014-07-03]
Jean Philippe and Jukka will create draft schema version 2.2 and create a README for it. They will send the README to the ALTO for comment.
- [Action 2014-07-03]
Nate will make the corresponding updates to the Library of Congress ALTO webpages on July 8.
- [Action 2014-07-03]
Frederick will announce the draft schema release on the ALTO listserv and distribute the README.
- [Action 2014-07-03]
Brian and Evelien will send hi-res logos for CDNC and KB respectively to Jean Philippe. Jukka will send a hi-res logo for Finland.
- [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 recruit a board member from an OCR software development team, perhaps Tesseract.
- [Action 2013-11-03] Frederick will 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.