board

1. Welcome new Board Members. [All]
2. Find and tell a non-offensive, maybe self-deprecating joke before the meeting begins and/or after it ends. [All]
3. Review recent schema issues:
   • ALTO 4.0: adaptation of “Processing” substructure - next steps? [Jo]
   • Schema documentation about use of <SP> needs clarification - Note: Tesseract master branch now exports ALTO, includes <SP> tags [Clemens]
   • Add LANG and ROTATION attributes to Page element - recent
4. Touch base on high priority schema issues. [All]
   • ALTO - PAGE xml: Object mapping and possible transformation generation
   • ALTO & IIIF integration - Notes from 2019-01-16 IIIF Community Call:
     • IIIF Text Granularity TSG Draft available - likely to be an extension rather than a core part of the spec at this point, see also Granularities in different OCR formats report
   • Confidence value calculation (CC - WC - PC) - annotation extension
   • Reading Order (IMPACT)
   • See full list of open schema issues here
5. Language Discussion:
   • Arabic OCR and Text Representation (Ahmed’s connection was lost at the last meeting so bringing this back) [Ahmed/Hany]
   • Challenges in the Digitization of Asian Textual Materials [Cally]
6. Follow up on upcoming F2F meeting at DATeCH 2019.
   • Reaching out to Günter Mühlberger and his group at the University of Innsbruck [Clemens/Stefan]
   • Existing XML schemas for lattice structures - the ALPS example [Art]
   • Create Schema issue for use of ALTO for handwriting? [All]
7. Other business. [All]
8. Next meeting date - proposed: March 22, 2019 [All]