[Standards] Thanks! and a few formalities

[Piotr Bański]

Dear All,

I would like to, first of all, say thanks again to all for your trust 
and support. I'll do my best to push ahead with the things we talked 
about in Aix as well as some tasks that have come up since then. I'll 
also try to keep the information coming from me to this list granular, 
in the sense of not packing too much into single messages but rather 
"keeping it threaded", if we can -- I guess most/all of us can only 
devote part of our working time to the CSC, so clear message threads can 
make it easier for us to "hit and run", i.e. address a single topic and 
go back to other commitments.

This message will be therefore restricted to a few formal issues that I 
would like to share, some of them coming from the recent BoD meeting.

Beginning next year, the CSC will be expected to report both to the BoD 
and to the NCF. The details of the reporting process are not clear yet, 
I've just e-mailed Sebastian Drude asking for a possible link to the 
minutes of that meeting, so that we have a clearer picture of what's 
expected. One way or another, I think it's a very good development 
because a direct reporting line to the NCF lodges us more firmly within 
CLARIN structures and promises some operational realisation of our 
advisory role. I will ping this list with occasional questions about 
reportables, so that next year's report can cover the activities of all 
the Committee members.

I also received a request/suggestion to keep the CSC member list 
current. Funnily enough, there are three potential locations of what 
could be considered a member list: (i) there is an internal CLARIN 
database, of which I have little information, (ii) there is the CSC web 
page [1], which I know can be relatively easily kept up-to-date, and 
(iii) there is this mailing list.

[1] https://www.clarin.eu/governance/standards-committee

I would like to suggest that we consider the CSC home page to 
contain/provide the official member list, with the database being a 
secondary back-office-oriented tool fed by the web page. Membership in 
the mailing list could then be considered a superset of the CSC members, 
with liaisons to other committees, invited experts, CLARIN officials, etc.

If you agree to the above, I would like to pass the ball onto this 
list's members, and ask that you tell me, on- or off-list, whether (a) 
your name is missing from the members list at the CSC home page [1], or 
(b) whether you would like your name removed from it. Thanks in advance!

I would like to finish with a sneak preview of the messages to come: we 
have a brand-new GitHub repository within the CLARIN space, I have 
reformulated the standards-list related proposals with the feedback from 
Aix, and I have pushed the MIME-type ideas to the "institutional" level 
within the TEI (so now I'm facing an IETF-related task). Stay tuned... ;-)

Best regards,

   Piotr


-- 
Piotr Bański, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher,
Institut für Deutsche Sprache,
R5 6-13
68-161 Mannheim, Germany