Dear colleagues, to prepare our CEI meeting I have tried to build a final list of expressions that shold build our common vocabulary in charter encoding. You can find this list at http://www.cei.lmu.de/taglib.php We can build from this list a DTD as generic as possible as I did http://www.ceil.mu.de/DTD/CEI.dtd Please send all recommendations for alteration and emendation of these two texts to the list (cei-l@lists.lrz-muenchen.de) At our meeting I would like to discuss this list and decide on a recommendation that could drafted as follows (emendation by native speakers strongly desired!): The CEI recommends to use for any encoding of medieval and early moden charters the folling vocabulary. The CEI agrees that there are many different ways to encode charters and many good standards to stay conform with. Thus the CEI does not consider the list a prescriptive tag list with a definite hierarchy. The vocabulary could be used as element names, as attribute names or as attribute values. If you want to encode medieval or early modern charters the CEI invites you to use a DTD build of this tag list (http://www.cei.lmu.de/taglib.php) and that would be properly for the purpose of the CEI. We consider any encoding that can be validated with this DTD as "CEI-compliant". We consider any encoding that can be mapped to this CEI using XSLT as "CEI-ready". The meeting of the CEI will have the following agenda: 1. "formalities" (Sorry, I don't know the correct english expression for "Festlegung der Tagesordnung", "Feststellung der Beschlußfähigkeit" and all these democratic formalities that are common for formal meetings - but I'm sure, our meeting won't be as formal as this agenda!) 2. developing and testing of the common vocabulary - reports 3. adopt the common vocabulary and the above proposed recommendation 4. varia I hope we can finish the meeting before lunch. I will prepare a litte bit on the topic 2 and 3 but would be happy if anybody of you could contribute too - just send me a short message. I'm happy to inform you that we have again a interpreting team for french, italien, german contributions into english. I hope that will keep the discussion lively. I would like to invite the initial CEI-group (Michele Ansani, Bernhard Assmann, Micheal Gervers, Andreas Gniffke, Andreas Kuczera, Michael Margolin, Christian-Emil Ore, Gautier Poupeau, Karsten Uhde, Anrea Rapp, Patrick Sahle) to preside the meeting together with me although all of you are invited to take part on discussions and voting. I hope you can all agree with the agenda and I'm looking forward to meet you in Munich Georg -- ------------------------------------- Dr.Georg Vogeler Historisches Seminar - Abt. Geschichtliche Hilfswissenschaften Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtitaet Muenchen e-mail: g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Internet: http://www.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/ghw/personen_vogeler.shtml