Minutes for August 7, 2014 ALTO board teleconference

Agenda

1. Review action items [Frederick leads discussion]
2. Discuss official release of ALTO schema v2.2. Review comments from draft release of v2.2 if any. [Everyone]
3. Discuss ALTO poster for IFLA WLIC Aug 18-19 in Lyon France and the DLF Forum Oct 27-29 in Atlanta Georgia. [Frederick leads discussion]
4. ALTO editorial board face-to-face meeting in Lyon and London: Where and when? Agendas for both. Suggested meeting day in Lyon: Monday Aug 18 late afternoon or evening Aug [Frederick leads discussion]
5. Brief report on effort to recruit new board members. [Frederick leads discussion]
6. 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 2014-07-03] 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 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.

Attending members

• Brian Geiger
• Evelien Ket
• Frederick Zarndt
• Jean Philippe Moreux
• Jukka Kervinen
• Kia Siang Hock
• Nate Trail

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