notes-from-meetings.md

TSC meeting 2017-01-26

Present: Luther, Richard, Tony

We have several potentially-parallel directions in which to move:

• Handle outstanding issues (marked .ednote in the markdown source)

• Create introductory text, as either one or several documents, including examples

• Create example bindings to existing models

  • Selected GEDCOM and GEDCOM-X as first-priority example bindings (quite different so if bind to both can likely bind elsewhere too)
  • GEDCOM binding depends on GEDCOM extension standard, noted below

• Create a proposed standard for GEDCOM extensions

  • A proposal for adding extension tags is found in CFPS 37
  • Also need a way to identify structure inside existing tags with no imposed structure in the GEDCOM standard
    • Must be contextual: some tag names are used to mean different things in different contexts (e.g., the NAME tag can be either a structure or a text element and can name people, products, or repositories)
    • Adding a tag to the HEAD might work; see, e.g., json-ld's @context and event-gedcom's schema

To facilitate preliminary technical work, it is proposed that we create a technical-work mailing list to facilitate discussions not easily handled via github.

A follow-up meeting was set for 2017-02-16 14:00Z